Our friend, and world class (really!) quilting Goddess, Caryl Fallert hosts a huge number of folks each year as part of the Quilt Show that happens- no that's not right- as part of the Quilt Show that engulfs Paducah at this time of year. As part of that hospitality she has a fancy dinner on Thursday night for about 30 folks...
This year she ended up asking me to pinch-hit the cooking of this meal for her...
So my day has been a layered phenomenon of planning, chopping, pounding and such... the big challenge, of course, is the limitations of the kitchen at Caryl's house... did most of the work here at home and then ran a semi-hysterical shuttle service for foods between the two houses.
Everything came together, as meals have a habit of doing, and the crowd seems sated.
The menu?
I made 3 different foccacia- a garlic herb and Olive oil, a two cheese and curry, and a chicken sausage mozzerella and sundried tomato- for appetizers. The main course was a Chicken Rollantine with feta and fresh spinach layered with all sorts of herbs. I laid the spiraled medallions onto a bed of mushroom sauce... the side dishes of jasmine and wild rice with julienned sun-dried tomatoes and minced olives and sauteed asparagus with the most beautiful medley of different colored peppers... a salad, of course, with a palette of different garni... dessert? of course! I had Victoria and Xan make 5 different types of cookies and I figured that people would have to be able to find something they liked and the leftovers would be appreciated for days afterwards.
After the food was laid out and people started serving themselves (with a certain gusto), I got to come home to dinner that Victoria made... that was like having dessert!
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