About Friday Night

I spent Friday afternoon cooking and prepping, so that I could surprise Christopher with a multi-course meal.

Poaching liquid for the chicken, which I then cooked the lentils in.

He knew I was cooking, but he had no idea what we were having.  A lot of the work was done ahead of time, so that I could hang out with him in the living room, and only have to go into the kitchen for a couple of minutes between courses.

We started with bourbon smoked Gouda, and mini steak au poivre bites (filet mignon crusted with peppercorns, over crispy potatoes with a carmalized onion/shallot mixture, sour cream, and crushed pink peppercorns):

A while later we had bacon-wrapped, parmesan stuffed dates:

The main course was ginger soy chicken with saucy lentils.  The chicken was poached in a sake, soy, ginger, spice mixture, and then roasted to crisp the skin.  The lentils were cooked in the poaching liquid.  I then topped the chicken with sour cream, green onion, cilantro, and red chilies.

On the side I served a carrot salad with an Asian dressing.

 

 

 

 

Dessert was mini, blueberry, no-bake cheesecakes for two:

We had some leftovers from this meal, and it made a good dinner again yesterday evening.

The rest of the weekend has been super low-key and chilled out; we had no plans, and have been enjoying the nice weather and doing a lot of relaxing.  Christopher is making jerked pork chops this evening - mmm!

How was your weekend?  What did you do?