I love cooking for anyone actually but especially friends and this special friend Cristina loves to cook as much as I do. For years and years we've gotten together on Sunday afternoons with our husbands and played bridge and had dinner. Not as often lately because they started going to CA in the winter and her mother has been sick and required trips away. So to have our "usual" Sunday get-together was special. 
I didn't get a picture of the table setting but it was fall colors as that is where we are headed now. The menu included broiled halibut, crispy rice cakes (made with a mix of brown rice, wild rice and white rice), sliced tomatoes from the farmer's market and a side dish of spaghetti squash mixed with kale, caramelized onions, chickpeas and grated parmesan cheese. For dessert I baked cannoncini and filled them with Italian cream and wild huckleberries. They were pretty sad looking when I was first learning how to wrap the puff pastry on the molds but now I can do them very quickly. Its a great dessert because you can do the pastry the day ahead and it's not too sweet and you can fill them with anything. I did some filled with peach sherbet and berries...
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3 comments:
Looks yummy and you look great!
It is so fun to have a passionate friend to cook with. Especially when hubbies are friends as well. Love your menus. See you soon.
mmmm - it all sounds so good! We don't entertain much any more and I miss it to a degree. I used to love making 'fancy' desserts for company and we don't tend to make them for ourselves, trusting instead on more basic things. I think maybe the time has come that we deserve nice desserts. We might deserve them.....but then there's the question of the waistline.....
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