Dinner Party

I should have posted this a couple of months ago, but I didn’t.

During Thanksgiving break I hosted a dinner party, and let me tell you, it was pretty kick ass.

The menu:

• Rosemary Bread
• Cream of Crab soup
• Roasted Chicken & Vegetables
• Pumpkin Cheese Cake or Apple Gallete

The bread was made in the bread machine, so it was stupid easy but still good. I mean it’s bread.

The soup was only slightly more complicated than the bread. Cream of Crab is way easier than I would have thought. It turned out pretty great, could have been better though. I forgot to take a picture of it served, so heres on of the pot:

The chicken was fantastic, as were the vegetables. If you read my older post about the chicken I made at the end of the Summer, it was the same recipe. I just added some balsamic and olive oil to the pan. It turned out so damn well. I wish I could remember more about it. I cooked two chickens and they turned out pretty much the same. I consider that a win.

They look pretty dang good don’t they?

Last but not least is dessert. I could’t decide between two different desserts, so I just made both.

The first was a Pumpkin Cheesecake that I have made once before. It’s fantastic. However I had to make the crust twice because I royally messed up the first time, but oh well. It still turned out great. I like this cheesecake mainly for the fact that it’s not overly dense like a lot of cheesecakes can be. It’s fair simple and tastes similar to Pumpkin Pie.

The other dessert was a Apple-Walnut Galette. I like to think of it as a cross between a tart and a pie. This is something that I have never made and it turned out pretty good. It tasted way better than it looked. The crust looks awful, clearly I’m not very good with a rolling pin yet.

Overall the dinner party was a great success. The food was on point and everyone had a good time. This was my first attempt at cooking something other than barbeque for more than 6 people, and well…I’m a champ.