I think I overdid it in the kitchen pre-bbq.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t cook anything for the next week and then took off on the road trip of love with the sweetest boyfriend for two wonderful weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 The only kitchen activity I really did during the vacation was the mixing up of a black bean salad on the night that we made dinner for our darling hosts.<\/p>\n
Today though, I could no longer resist the call of the kitchen.\u00c2\u00a0 When some friends called, wanting to do something tonight, it was just the opportunity I was looking for.\u00c2\u00a0 Dinner guests!\u00c2\u00a0 So, I invited them over and whipped up a rather tasty meal.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s too bad that the boyfriend was busy and had to miss out, but he had his own great dinner of roast chicken and cornbread stuffing cooked by his own sweet mum.<\/p>\n
The only completely new to me recipe was a vietnamese coffee granita<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Last night while channel flipping, I caught the Take Home Chef making a mango granita.\u00c2\u00a0 Mango was not quite what I had in mind, but this recipe was the first one that I came across after googling granita.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, I thought it would be a nice complement for my oatmeal cake<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And so it was.\u00c2\u00a0 They were quite wonderful together.<\/p>\n A sort of new to me recipe was Martha’s Vineyard salad<\/a>, but I’d eaten it before.\u00c2\u00a0 The same friends who were coming for dinner had served it to me years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It turned out to pair nicely with my shrimp and not grits<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I also roasted asparagus and cooked some yellow squash. \u00c2\u00a0 I used that old southern method on the squash of cooking the shit out of it with a big amount of margarine, until it was all squishy.<\/p>\n It was a wonderful dinner, paired with a South Austrailian Chardonnay.\u00c2\u00a0 This was an “unwooded” wine, although I do not know exactly what that means just yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll have to do a little research.<\/p>\n I think I like having very small parties even more than large ones.\u00c2\u00a0 I got to concentrate on just the two guests and spend all of the time with them.\u00c2\u00a0 However, there’s also something to be said for being surrounded by a dozen or so of your best pals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I overdid it in the kitchen pre-bbq.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t cook anything for the next week and then took off on the road trip of love with the sweetest boyfriend for two wonderful weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 The only kitchen activity I really did during the vacation was the mixing up of a black bean salad on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-kitchenry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}