Saturday, December 22, 2007

Pre Holiday Meal

When you find yourself dropping massive amounts of money on the food for the holiday, it's easy to forget about what's for dinner.

Tonight we had melted cheese and ham sandwiches.
Recipe for 2 sandwiches.

1. Start the broiler.
2. Under the broiler, lightly toast 4 slices of Sourdough Bread.
3. Flip bread over and pile two slices with thinly sliced black forest ham from westridge. And pile the others with cheese. Eric chose thinly sliced Point Reyes Blue Cheese, I chose thinly sliced Gruyere. Before putting the sandwich slice back in the broiler, I put some slices of red onion on Eric's Blue Cheese. Drizzle olive oil over meat and cheese. Grind fresh black pepper over everything.
4. Once cheese is melted to desired meltiness, remove from under broiler. Assemble sandwiches and slice in half.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Family Coming for Christmas

My parents and my brother and finance arrive on Sunday, the 23rd for dinner. It makes my mom nervous when I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, so I am doing my best to think ahead, plan out the meals and prep as much as possible.

The 4 days Dinner look like this:

Sunday Night
Baby Back Ribs
Polenta
Spicy Peppery Citrus Salad

Monday
Gumbo, Cornbread and Rice
Salad
Gingerbread Cake for desert

Tuesday
Seviche
Emapandas
Salad with Poblano Rajas and Smoked Whitefish

Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Guajillo Sauce
Smokey Greens
Cheese Grits Souffle
Spicy Pear Relish
Some sort of Roasted Veggie Squash Carrot Dish

Semolina Cake with 2 sauces