Saturday 14 February 2009

Dinner Menu

Pierre from Canada suggested a suitable dinner menu:

Aperitif: Oloroso Nutty Solera or Findlater's Dry Fly Sherry

Hors d'Oeuvre: shrimp, smoked oysters or devilled eggs

Soup: consomme

Entree: Lobster or Crab on the shell

Main Course: Cornish game hen (not sure, either crossed with a Rock chicken to make a miniature chicken, or not to make some great big aggressive hen), 8oz beef tenderloin steak, lamb shanks, pork butts (seems to be the top end of the shoulder)

Dessert: anything sinful.

I replied that I might find anything after the entree an impossibility. Can't remember when I last had sherry or consomme. Can't imagine serving all or any of these powerful dishes to complete strangers - not quite sure what devilled eggs are. Sounds fun though. Ah, just googled them - they are those quite boring hard boiled eggs where you cut in half and take the yolks out, season and mix with mayo, curry, whatever, then put them back. They used to serve them about 30 years ago at parties and I always used to prefer whole hard-boiled eggs, though they looked quite decorative.

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