Yesterday we hosted a day-before-Valentine's-Day dinner at our place... I had fun with it!
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| I was FLOORED when I saw that AAFES (our local Army store) had FLOWERS!! I haven't seen fresh bouquets of flowers since we left the States. I went home and immediately made sure Peter knew they were there. :-) |
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| Ready for guests! |
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| Chocolate! This is one of the leaf-impression plates I made at our local Pottery Shop. |
Our menu:
Appetizers: Fresh Strawberries, Crackers with Grandma's Blackberry Jam and Goat Cheese
Main Meal: Bacon wrapped Filet Mignon, Quinoa Salad, Homemade Wheat Rolls, Potato Casserole
Dessert:
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| White Chocolate... |
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| Oreo Cookie Crust... |
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| Raspberry... |
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| ...Swirled Cheesecake! |
Whew! That cheesecake was a bit of work, but SO worth it! DELISH. Our friends who came brought a Fruit Tart, Strawberry Napoleons and Cream Puffs, also all AMAZING! We had a fun evening and enough food leftover for another dinner party!
Yummy!! This all looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteum, yum! not bad island fare!!
ReplyDeleteOOOH, my - I think I gained 10 LBs reading about your menu. How very fun. Sent a pkg - I will think of you sorting the mail and finding it. S
ReplyDeleteand what a lovely party it was I am sure:)
ReplyDeleteThat cheesecake looks amazing! It has just the right combination of ingredients to be satisfyingly decadent :D
ReplyDeleteyummm-umm. What can I say? and finally I get to see one of your leaf dishes - very cute! and tropical flowers too - how thoughtful of the army to have them flown in just for you. Glad it all went so well.
ReplyDeleteA Gourmet Valentine Dinner...how lovely !! The pix are so good one can ALMOST SMELL/TASTE it !!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers...Peter you did good too !!
Oh I want that cheesecake recipe.....looks amazing. Thank you for the picture cd. We enjoyed it.. glad you are having fun with your island adventure.
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