Sunday Dinner

OK we have talked about recipes and we have talked about wine, let's look at a menu.

Last night we had old friends over for dinner, just the four of us so it was not a major production especially since all of it was done ahead of time.

Menu:
          Curried Corn Chowder
          Shrimp Ceviche
          Penne Pasta with Zucchini Tomato Sauce
          Blackberry Cobbler & Vanilla Ice Cream

Now I've talked about the chowder and tomato sauce before. In fact, I made the chowder on Wednesday and made the tomato sauce on Friday. The only thing we did on Sunday was I made the ceviche and Karen made the cobbler.

We served the chowder as an hors d'oeuvre in pastis glasses. Now, most folks won't have that on their bar so any small glass (a rocks glass or even a juice glass).

Then to the dining room where we had the ceviche as a first course followed by the pasta and cobbler.

The ceviche recipe was from Cooking Light and was the first time I made it. It was just ok (the recipe called for cilantro which I usually don't like and this recipe was no exception). Everything else was delicious especially Karen's cobbler.

What did I pour?

We started pretty fancy with a 1997 Laurent Perrier Brut champagne. After that, we had an inexpensive white Burgundy from Domaine Talmard and an inexpensive red vin de pay from Jerome Quiot called QED. Both wines are great values and both are distributed by my friend Jean Pierre Chambas at Aleph Wines in Columbia.

The best thing about the meal was doing it ahead of time and Karen did her cobbler which is always outstanding.