Good food, Good Grub, Good God, Let's eat!

Just to keep going on the food-kick, I thought I would review the Dinner we made on friday night for our company...

We had a busy weekend of cooking and preparations....

putting away groceries....

... since we had a couples dinner friday evening and a big Brunch Saturday morning.

 

For Friday, this is how our menu ended up looking... 

 

Appetite teaser:
Bruschetta on toasted baguette

• 2 Ripe tomatoes finely chopped, one onion, finely chopped, fresh basil finely chopped, 2 cloves of pressed garlic, 1 tbsp of EVOO.

 

Main Course:
Filled Turkey Breast - free from the imagination (according to recipe for pork tenderloin from boys family)

• Make a stuffing with sundried tomatoes, fresh basil, fresh parsley, feta cheese, 1 onion, 3 cloves of garlic, and finely chopped mushrooms (about 200gr). Mix together in a small food processor.
• Stuff the Turkey Breast and wrap the entire thing with bacon, or prosciutto.
• Bake however long the packaging requires. Our Turkey was about 1050 gr, which means it called for about 70 minutes.
• If you like a good gravy, add a carrot and an onion (chopped into large pieces) to the pan, along with about a cup or two of broth and a bay leaf. After cooking, bring all of this to a boil in a pan with a bit of milk/cream and perhaps a bit of white wine.

Baked new small potatoes

• Scrubbed and baked whole in oven with salt and pepper for appr. 45 minutes.

Salad with Pears, Prosciutto, and Gorgonzola (a salad I learned from my aunt - I believe it is from the Danish recipe book Suveraene Salater?)

• Chop a blend of lettuce, chop a tomato, finely cut an onion into very thing slices (a red onion works well)
• 2 Pears - cut into quarters to take out the pit, and very finely dice the pear.
• Mix all of these ingredients in a bowl

• Fry prosciotto on pan until brown and crispy

• Chop the bacon finely after frying, but do not mix with salad until immediately before serving. 
• I prepare bowls with pine nuts, sunflower seeds, and gorgonzola, since not everybody likes all the extra topping on their salad.
• Drizzle with a bit of the following dressing: oil, white vine vinegar, honey, lemon juice, salt+ pepper (all to taste)

Desert was homemade ice cream, courtesy of boy. One liter of chocolate marzipan, one liter of Daim. Yum yum yum.