Thursday, March 16th
We combined the March birthday party for Ed with ST Patrick day. That made it easy for me to put together a menu.
And here it is:
Beverage
Chardonnay, Champagne, Jack
Daniels, Bacardi and coke
Dinner
( Irish themed)
Shillelagh Sticks
served with Guacamole
Lamb Terrine
minted green goddess sauce
*
Corned Beef and Cabbage
Boiled potatoes and baby
carrots
*
Chocolate Bread Pudding
Kiwi Cream Sauce
Vanilla and Strawberry Ice
Cream
Blood Oranges
Grand marnier flavored Cream
Anglaise
Donna helped me with the resource to find a Irish appetizer and came up with Shillelagh Sticks. It is fairly simple to prepare and taste great with your appertive.
There are bread sticks wrapped in bacon and coated with
rosemary flavored parmesan cheese
I made a Lamb Terrine wrapped in Puff Pastry and I served it with a creamy montricher dressing mixed with crushed mint leafs and parsley. The trick is to have a green sauce enhancing the terrine flavor and mint goes pretty good with lamb, and I was right. I incorporated the lamb meat with fire roasted red peppers, chanterelle and pistachios.
The corned beef and cabbage was very traditional and nothing
out of the ordinary!
Now the chocolate bread pudding is something only I can accomplish!!
( unless you are willing to spend a lot of time)
First of all I had to bake 3 different pound cakes, one butter, one orange and one lemon. I used the same receipt for all tree except one with lemon juice and rind and one with orange juice and rind and of course a touch of food color. Mix the diced pound cakes in a bread loaf with quartered pralines and ad some fresh orange slices. Fill with a royal cream ( cream, eggs and sugar) and bake for 1hour on low heat or until it is firm.
To serve, I made strawberry and vanilla ice cream and cream anglaise with Grand Marnier. And because it was St Patrick Day I fixed a green Kiwi cream.
You have to take my word for it, everything was delicious!!
There was one technical difficulty, Ed was not feeling very well and he had to leave a little early ( before dessert), but I promised him to deliver his dessert the next day whenever he is ready.
PROST!! UNTIL NEXT TIME
