Fall Party Menu

Saturday evening, after 6 months of living in our new house, we finally invited all of our friends over for a fall party/house warming. We provided drinks (including pumpkin beer, wine, apple cider, and italian soda) and light appetizers. All food items were made from scratch. You would think that I would have tried to make my life easier by getting some frozen snacks to heat up, but no. Even the pesto and pizza dough were made that morning. Can you say nesting? And so the day began with rolling out of bed to start cooking.

Here was the menu:
Roasted Garlic Pea Puree en Croute
Baba Ganoush with Pita
White Bean and Rosemary Dip with Vegetables
Seven Layer Dip with White Corn Chips
Pesto phyllo rolls
Margarita Pizza (homeade) (ricotta garlic spread, tomato, basil, fresh mozzarella)
Cheese Pizza (homeade)
Pumpkin Cake with Brown Butter Icing topped with sugared Almonds
Halloween Sugar Cookies decorated with icing
Kettle Corn
Crackers, Cheese and Salami
Candy Corn and Cashews

As a side effect of being 7+ months pregnant, I did need to enlist DGs help as sous chef (aka cheese grater) and dish washer. In the midst of all the cooking, we did not get too many pictures. Unfortunately this one is the best. And I so wanted to be a part of the www.jemangelaville.com cookbook challenge.

Pork Me

Happy Asian New Year. We went to our annual party at Bert and Lora's house for a little poker party and asian food. The eats were good and we had a great time. DG lost all our money, but I made a little of it back. Seen above is the river of dreams, shown during one of our Texas Hold Em hands.

It's the year of the boar which means 2007 is going to be lucky for me as that is my year. I'm a boar. I know, I'm opening myself up for fodder. But seriously, my new montra is pork me. I giggle in loud guffaws each time I say it. DG probably thinks he's living in a frat house.