For over a year now, we've been saying, "One of these days, we should have a party and invite everyone we know." But we never actually do that, in part because our schedule is unpredictable. So I decided that we should just start inviting a handful of people over here and there, even if it's just a few days in advance, when we think we'll have free time over the weekend. Today we ended up with a small crowd for brunch.
The menu: leek and spinach tart, berry shortcakes with lemon cream (the lemon cream isn't part of the recipe, it's just whipped cream with lemon curd folded in), assorted fresh fruit (grapes, melon, pineapple), "drunken goat" cheese and crackers, chicken sausage, and sweet potato and regular potato oven fries. Seemed like just the right amount and balance of food for seven adults and two kids. At first I thought we should have had some bread for when people walked in, but I think the shortcakes made up for that.
I also made these peanut butter crispy bars yesterday, because K wanted me to make something out of the box of Rice Krispies that's been sitting on our shelf for months, and totally forgot to send people home with them. So now we still have almost all of the bars, a half-batch of lemon curd, AND some banana chocolate chip muffins sitting around, not to mention some stray shortcakes and lemon cream. Anybody want to come over for a dessert buffet?
Sunday, 18 April 2010
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