Sunday, January 15, 2012

Dinner with Friends

Yesterday I spent the day baking and prepping food for dinner, which included chopping up a variety of citrus fruits that I would be using in a salad.


Some good friends came over for dinner and a visit. 

We started with prosciutto wrapped bread sticks (some with a fig dip and others with cranberry Boursin cheese) and jalapeno poppers because I was totally craving them :-)


Next was a citrus salad with feta and mint.


The 3rd course was fire-pot soup. This was spicy, but not too spicy, with a delicious curry coconut milk broth.


The main course was citrus crusted tilapia, lemon risotto, beets with carrots, and asparagus.


Dessert included lemon crinkle cookies, and a dense, very moist, red wine chocolate cake.

 

How was your weekend?
When was the last time you had dinner with friends?

9 comments:

Allysia said...

Oh man, isn't it awesome how citrus fruits are all abundant and cheap right now? Honestly, I know everyone's all into summertime produce, but I think winter brings out the best - citrus, sweet potatoes and winter squash, kale... Everything else at your party looks good too, especially the beets!

Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga said...

Ive seen Lauren's crinkle cookies, and Deb's choc cake, and have wanted to make both before...you did a great job! It all looks so good!

Aarthi said...

Delicious..Awesome Recipes

Aarthi
http://yummytummy-aarthi.blogspot.com/

Kacy said...

My weekend was awesome! I had dinner with friends Friday and it was delicious.

Vanessa said...

Oh my goodness -- I'd love to go to your house for dinner! ;-) Everything looks great. My weekend was pretty standard, but good. Some house cleaning, a little shopping and some yummy food at our favorite Mexican restaurant.

Yelena said...

Dinner looks delicious!. Especially the citrus salad!

I am sad ther weekend is over, but it was lovely and we saw 2 different sets of friends, which is great!

Anonymous said...

My weekend was really great - I can't believe it's time to be back to work already!

Lisa from Lisa's Yarns said...

Yum yum yum. I want to come to your house for dinner. You are such a fabulous host!!!

My weekend was wonderful - I spent it in Chicago with good friends!!

Anonymous said...

I am totally book-marking that citrus salad with feta! Looks like the perfect combination of sweet 'n' salty.