EVERYTHING BUT THE 'KITCHEN SINK'..........

 

I can't keep away from the kitchen today........5 hours to make a few 'appetizers'......this is the 3rd 'course', of 6........Greek lemon eggdrop soup; seafood 'salad' of crab/lobster/shrimp/flounder on a bed of spicy mixed greens and super-thin sliced shitake mushrooms with shaved orange beets and roquefort cheese; 'mojo' panko encrusted marinated Cuban steak, pickled beets, asparagus in sesame oil and ground orange and red peppercorns, wild carrots cooked in rosemary, thyme and sourwood honey; vegetable 'plate' of assorted ugli tomatoes, see-through thin purple carrot slices on quinoa, Indonesian style, field green salad with chopped cilantro stems, pickled orange rinds, walnuts and toasted pine nuts and Gorgonzola cheese crumbles......and, of course, Dessert! Apricot and dark, bitter chocolate truffle with salty macadamia nuts and candied ginger along with homemade mango iced heavy cream, sweetened with orange and tangerine liquors......and a cup of hazelnut java with whipping cream and powdered cinnamon......'have an eggroll, Mr. Goldfarb!"...