The Untidy Cook

Food, glorious Food!

Now I've had a day to recover from supper last night, I can start to write about it.  The glorious menu started with the experimental cocktail team knocking up a few exotic numbers:

• cosmo's
• gin fizz
• lime dacquiri's

Followed by:

• pineapple/cheese cube/silverskin onion/cherry tomato/olive hedgehog (wow!)
• crudites
• devilled eggs
• posh chicken nuggets
• pigs in blankets & prunes in bacon
• warm potato salad
• butter lettuce
• bang bang dip
• chicken liver pate

And pudding was:

• mini chocolate brownies
• a flourless chocolate cake with ganache from Feast/Nigella Lawson
• Strawberries and blueberries
• best vanilla icecream
• thick yellow double cream

Lovely people talking sense and nonsense over a splendid supper.

Mind you, I had to have a nap today.  And some reviving soup - watercress, most nourishing.  

Now then, where was I?

Ah yes, what's for supper on Sunday?  And before I even get to that point, what about breakfast today?

A lovely four day break beckons and so does some leftover mash in the fridge.  That makes it breakfast time with pancakes, I think. So I shall reprise the unexpectedly wizard version from February.  

At the same time, I'm combing my cook book repository to build an awesome supper party.  Currently the menu's looking a little like this:

• crudites
• stuffed mushrooms
• bang bang dip
• terrine of some form
• anti-pasti
• devilled eggs
• pear, blue cheese and walnut salad
• warm, grainy potato salad
• brown rice salad
• posh chicken nuggets
• cheese hedgehog

I'm channelling a 60's finger food do (think the film, The Party).  Lots of brightly coloured food.  The potential use of maraschino cherries, green angelica and pale almond slivers.  With an acrid coloured daiquiri. Let's see what it ends up as.  

The frying pan beckons.  More later.