What's for Dinner?

[Jenise]

An anniversary dinner for my beloved:

crostini with duck mousse and fresh local morel duxelles
Puget Sound spot prawn and heirloom cherry tomato 'martini'
Fresh organic Oregon rack of lamb with pea and mint risotto
Chocolate caramel tart with fresh blackberries

[Robin Garr]

An anniversary dinner for my beloved:

Whoa! Happy anniversary to Jenise and Bob!

Salil,

You've reminded me just how long it is since I made that wonderful murgh makani. It's on the list, once I've got through the current batch of leftovers. And I have some ideas of what to do with that marvelous leftover marinade that is a by-product of this dish.

-Paul W.

salisbury steak, roasted potatoes, salad of cherry tomatoes and snap peas

Tonight was slow-simmered chunks of pork with onions, tomatoes, green chiles and spices, served with rice and caesar salad.

Some Rib-eye and a glass of Malbec, the way Argentines do it. Can't beat a good steak after all, right?

We had Sweet & Sour Eggplant Soba with a nice red. Hit the spot.

Frenched lamb chops with fresh rosemary, grilled to med. rare, and served with a Boysenberry, Cabernet Sauce. Baby red potatoes, steamed, then lightly smashed with butter and rosemary. Green beans from the garden, steamed and tossed with fresh basil, cherry tomatoes from the garden.

[Robin Garr]

Some Rib-eye and a glass of Malbec, the way Argentines do it. Can't beat a good steak after all, right?

I'm right there with you ... we had a friend over last night and sacrificed a couple of thick grass-fed rib eyes from White Oak Pastures Farm in Georgia, pan-seared and oven-finished at 400F until crusty on the outside and perfect pink all the way through. Stuffed potatoes, salad, a Peter Reinhart baguette and some local artisan ice cream. Malbec? Yeah, that'll do, but Edmunds St. John 2005 Rocks and Gravel worked nicely, too.

I accept Queen Victoria's axiom to the effect that "dinner is the main meal of the day" and extendi that to mean that "dinner" can happen at any time of the day or night. Based on that, although it is now only 2:40 in the afternoon, we just finished our dinner - blinis with caviar and creme fraiche, that with n.v. Brut Rose of Laurent-Perrier), omelets with spring onions and smoked salmon (n.v. Brut of Krug); grilled lamb chops with a potato puree that had been blended with a truffled demi-glace sauce (1990 Mouton Rothschild); creme Catalan (2004 Heightswine of the Golan Heights Winery).

Indeed it was a special birthday for one of my nieces and after a meal like that I can only wish that I had one niece for every day of the year!!!

Best
Rogov

The Francophile has discovered prosciutto. He tells me that dinner tonight is going to involve oven-baked chicken breast, blue cheese, and prosciutto. I must see what the wine shelves have to offer to go with that!