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1. Dinner Party For Macron At White House

Seasonal Dinner Party Appetizers Grilled shrimp with avocado dipping sauce Tuna tartare with seaweed salad on crisp mini wonton cones Pan-crisped polenta squares topped with creamy mushroom shallot ragout Dinner Grill-roasted fillet of beef with caramelized onion and garlic jam Local halibut fillet with grilled fresh pineapple slices Corn pudding Summer chopped salad with snap peas, fingerling potatoes, green and yellow beans, arugula, and homemade ranch dressing Broiled garden tomatoes with herbed panko crust Dessert Chocolate truffle cake with raspberry coulis and Chantilly cream.

I spend a ridiculous amount of time on food. Between searching recipes, reading food magazines, planning menus, shopping, cooking, and cleaning it all up, food is certainly a central element in my life. (My husband and I keep joking about all the things I could accomplish if I gave up cooking for just one week Stay tuned to see if that ever actually happens!) It occurred to me today that I might be able to save time for some of you by posting the menus I’ve put together for dinner parties at my house. I try to plan things that go together nicely and that will allow me to do as much work as possible before my guests arrive. (We usually have cocktails and apps around my kitchen island, so the last thing I want my guests to see is me frantically trying to put a meal on the table.) Saving time and lessening stress is always a good thing, right?

It's fall y'all. I just love to say that. Homemade Baked Mac-N-Cheese: Progressive Dinner Party. We are having a Fall Progressive Dinner Party.

Last night, Dr. O and I hosted a typical fall dinner party with one exception: we had a vegetarian guest. Now, vegetarians certainly aren’t unusual and I’ve worked with more challenging diets, but I came to realize that I didn’t have many recipes in my entertaining arsenal that didn’t include meat.

Dinner Party For Macron At White House

I first experimented with Hearty Root Vegetable and Mushroom Stew from my copy of. While it certainly wasn’t bad, it wasn’t dinner party food; my friend Christopher suggested that I was expecting a miracle out of a vegetable stew. After some discussion, we came up with the menu below for six guests. Appetizers: Spinach dip and lemon artichoke dip from Whole Foods (I’ll take help where I can get it!) Crackers Cucumber slices (as a dipping alternative) Mixed olives Roasted, salted almonds (from Whole Foods bulk section – fantastic!) Meal: Simple Roasted Tomatoes (Just toss any quantity of cherry tomatoes in a roasting pan with olive oil, salt, and pepper; roast for 15 to 20 minutes towards the end of the macaroni and cheese baking time.) Dessert: Here’s the preparation schedule I followed for a 7 p.m. Dinner party. (Yes, I am one of those people.