Went through a pile of emails this morning, getting ready for a NCHS/AFAR Board meeting tomorrow. Whew!
This evening we went to the neighbor's for a pot luck. Now, this is not your ordinary pot luck. These are 6 people, 3 couples, all of whom are cooks and major foodies. The host couple made chili (not your ordinary chili). The other guest couple brought corn bread and dessert. We brought a salad that I made this afternoon. From Martha Stewart's Cooking School. Roasted winter root vegetables on a bed of seasonal greens with Alice's mustard vinaigrette. Sprinkled with spicy toasted pepitas. I roasted mushrooms, carrots, parsnips, turnips, and shallots. Enough for the salad for 6 tonight and leftovers for tomorrow night. The whole meal was just fabulous. And we all are great company if I do say so myself.
One of us, Tom, makes ravioli and will teach me! The universe heard my pleas for help! Sometime soon we will do another pot luck at his house centered around making pasta and ravioli in particular. We'll all bring aprons and pitch in. Yippee! Tom reports that he makes his ravioli pasta Martha Stewart's way using a pasta machine, that it's darn near impossible to roll the stuff out thin enough by hand. No kidding.
(Yes, I do have a pasta machine....)
Lovely evening. Made a terrific new dish, even if it wasn't an Alice. It still fits into Alice's food and cooking philosophies.
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