{"id":4009,"date":"2011-10-22T21:31:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2011-10-22T21:38:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T02:38:46","slug":"school-woods-birthday-the-leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/school-woods-birthday-the-leftovers\/","title":{"rendered":"School Woods birthday &#8211; the leftovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolwoods.com\/2011\/09\/11\/and-now-we-are-six\/\">nice birthday party<\/a> for School Woods on Friday. I&#8217;ve been serving meals there for 5 years. It was an after work cocktail party, stand-up, nibbles and sips. I made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crostini with goat cheese, slow-roasted tomato, &amp; pickled onion<\/strong> &#8211; homemade baguettes, and I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101cookbooks.com\/archives\/000280.html\">Heidi&#8217;s technique<\/a> of pouring the oil (or butter) into a bowl and tossing the bread slices in and mixing it all up &#8211; more effective than brushing or spraying or drizzling the oil onto the bread &#8211; but I used a touch too much oil. Homemade slow-roasted tomatoes, too, and the pickled onions were a dark magenta hue I&#8217;d not seen before, tho it&#8217;s a recipe I&#8217;ve made many times. And I mixed the goat cheese with a dash of honey. I didn&#8217;t make the white bean crostini &#8211; so now I have a yogurt bucket of cooked white beans to use or freeze.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chicken salad with apples and walnuts<\/strong> &#8211; white meat chicken, toasted nuts and one giant, local Delicious apple. I didn&#8217;t make the crispy wonton cups to put the chicken in &#8211; it ended up being a chunky salad so it woulda been a pain to stuff into the cups. Instead, I made chicken salad canapes &#8211; the salad, mounded on buttered bread &#8211; and also put out a bowl of the chicken salad for people to eat however they wanted.<\/li>\n<li>I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrvalleycheese.com\/artisanal-and-american-originals-cheeses\/mixed-milk-cheeses\/mobay.html\">Carr Valley Mobay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandsfamilycheese.com\/\/images\/14.jpg\">Marieka Gouda with Fenugreek<\/a> and Farmer John&#8217;s Asaiago and smoked Gouda &#8211; which was the crowd pleaser &#8211; more of that eaten than any of the others. I put the cheese out with crackers and fresh figs and pears and olive tapende (made by whirring up all old olives from the fridge with a small jar of purchased). There was also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_P%C3%A9pin\">Jacque Pepin&#8217;s<\/a> cheese spread &#8211; all the cheese ends, also whirred up in the processor, with butter. This one had some bleu, some cranberry cheddar, some orange cheddar, and some Parmesan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetables and chips and dips. <\/strong> Dill dip, because I got a lovely bunch of fresh dill at the Wednesday market. Edamame hummus from the newest Martha, quite tasty &#8211; but a little pasty and thick because I cut back on the large amount of water called for, since, naturally, I thought it was one of those Martha tricks to insure that no one can make her food as good as her &#8211; but in fact somewheres in between the 1\/3 cup I used and the 3\/4 cup she said to use would be right. With blanched broccoli, beauty heart radishes, and carrot sticks. And a big bowl of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zarela.com\/2009\/escabeche-casa-del-sol\/\">pickled veggies from Saveur<\/a> &#8211; I left out the zucchini, and only used 1 jalapeno, but it was still a gigantic batch. I&#8217;ll be eating them for lunch all week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cocktail meatballs &amp; tofu balls<\/strong> &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooks.com\/rec\/doc\/0,191,155184-253205,00.html\">standard Heinz chili sauce meatball recipe<\/a>, using red currant jam and the last of a bottle of siracha along with the chili sauce, instead of the canned cranberry sauce or grape jelly (and packaged meatballs) specified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heinzchilisauce.com\/\">in the original<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/fu-balls.html\">tofu balls<\/a> are Mollie Katzen, from the Enchanted Broccoli Forest &#8211; I put them out with a bottled BBQ sauce, but, me, I preferred the fu balls dipped in the sauce from the meatballs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sweets<\/strong> &#8211; mini pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101cookbooks.com\/archives\/no-bake-chocolate-cake-recipe.html\">Heidi&#8217;s chocolate truffle cake<\/a> made into cups which had to licked (or spooned out) and <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2011\/02\/14\/valentines-cookies\/#1\">Dori&#8217;s jammers<\/a>, a la me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<script>\/* <![CDATA[ *\/ portfolio_slideshow.slideshows[283] = {\"timeout\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"false\",\"trans\":\"fade\",\"loop\":1,\"speed\":\"\",\"nowrap\":1}; \/* ]]> *\/<\/script><div id=\"slideshow-wrapper283\" class=\"slideshow-wrapper clearfix portfolio-slideshow-centered\">\n<div 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href=\"javascript:void(0)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"psp-active\" data-img=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bdaycupcake-400x266.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Slide 9\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div><\/div><!--#slideshow-wrapper-->\n<p>So, probably the funnest thing was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/24000983\">Terese<\/a> brought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MickeysTavern\">Janie<\/a>, and these two women are my Ovens of Brittany cronies &#8211; friends from my years of restaurant work, 20+ years ago. Friday morning, I went for a walk with Rach, and she peeled off early, so I was doing the long last leg of the walk on my own. I ran into one of John&#8217;s friends from high school, Sam, unlocking his bike in front of his parents house &#8211; he has his own apartment, shared with a girlfriend downtown, but said he comes to his folks&#8217;s when he wants to study. Sam ate lunch at my house almost every day for four years in high school. So, anyways, Sam said he works at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/theguide\/venue.php?venue=1835\">Greenbush Bar<\/a>, owned by another of my Ovens of Brittany pals, Anna. I said I used to work with his boss, Anna, and Sam replied, &#8220;oh yeah, the desserts at Greenbush are kinda like the stuff I used to eat at your house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I had <a href=\"http:\/\/instagr.am\/p\/RCbia\/\">scrambled eggs<\/a> with tomatoes, onions &amp; goat cheese from the crostini and broccoli, leftover from being a dip veggie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a nice birthday party for School Woods on Friday. I&#8217;ve been serving meals there for 5 years. It was an after work cocktail party, stand-up, nibbles and sips. I made: Crostini with goat cheese, slow-roasted tomato, &amp; pickled onion &#8211; homemade baguettes, and I used Heidi&#8217;s technique of pouring the oil (or butter) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,12,43,156,194],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breakfast","tag-kids","tag-leftovers","tag-memory","tag-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}