Happy Fourth of July everyone! We used Friday night to kick off the long weekend festivities by having a few friends over for dinner. We tried some new things out on a willing bunch of guests and Chris brought down some of his great homebrew to sample (as well as a few “nuggets” from his beer cellar- including a 12 year old Imperial Stout that he brewed while we were living in NH)…
…first off, Nasturtium flower soup with cucumber shallot marmalade (the Nasturtium flowers and leaves came right out of our backyard garden).
Beet Juice Spheres…
Cucumber Gelee with almond…
”Dry Shot”- dehydrated pepper, garlic, breadcrumbs, fried capers and fried oregano leaves (also from our garden)…
“Soup and Sandwich”- Mini grilled cheese and tomato consomee….
Tobacco cream, blackberry and mint…
Strawberry sorbet- Ingrid picked the berries five hours before making the sorbet…
Salmon, white truffle sauce, celery and black truffles…
We neglected to take pictures of dessert, but we had home made vanilla ice cream with butterscotch…all in all, it was a fun meal with some great people who were perfect subjects for our kitchen foils!
-Josh
August 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Ingrid, I am reading your blog for the first time and love it! Did you guys make all of these fancy apps? They look wonderful!
August 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM
“We” didn’t make them – Josh did!!