{"id":5440,"date":"2012-06-09T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2012-06-11T00:32:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T05:32:52","slug":"that-was-a-nice-dinner-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/that-was-a-nice-dinner-but\/","title":{"rendered":"That was a nice dinner, but …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t finish cleaning up till 11:22. Rach put together a group so we had like 20 people. It was an easy menu<\/a>, everything made in advance – roasted the chicken in the a.m. when it was cool. I only had to turn the stove on to grill the polenta. Which, by the way I should have done in a regular skillet instead of the grill pan – it stuck terribly. I figured it out by the third batch. And in the end it meant a really good cleaning for the grill pan; I left it scrubbed & freshly oiled.<\/p>\n

Anyways, the side effect of having a big group is that I started off with all these big containers of salads and ended up with little dabs, that all needed to be transferred to smaller containers, and everything washed. I also was in a bit of a rush to get to the dinner, because I’d gone to see Joelle walk in the West HS graduation<\/a>, so I left all the chicken pans to wash later, too.<\/p>\n

I just got a Maryann pan that makes a cake with a concave top to be filled with pastry cream & topped with roasted rhubarb – I was hoping to be redeemed for the mess of the 25th anniversary tarts<\/a>. The cake base wasn’t really the cake that I envisioned. It was a brown sugar coffee cake from Dorie Greenspan<\/a>, that sounded like it would be perfect. The recipe had butter and oil, and the oil seemed to give the cake a hard crust. The pastry cream was smooth and creamy, but I thought the rhubarb was too fiber-y. Sunday morning I wanted to use the leftover roasted rhubarb in a coffee cake. I put it through the food processor, but it was still too fiber-y, so I strained it – or, I started off with a strainer, and realized the china cap<\/a> was the tool to use. So more stuff to wash. Too much work, but the coffee cake was delish, and the cake was the nice tender yellow cake I want to try next in the Maryann pan.<\/p>\n

I never took any pictures till the Sunday morning leftovers.<\/p>\n

Last year we had breakfast burritos<\/a> for Ethan’s graduation brunch – so this year we made one year anniversary breakfast burritos, with the rhubarb coffee cake. I went out on my bike to get the tortillas, and I had a David Shapiro-like<\/a> altercation with a driver who was going the wrong way on a roundabout. She had Cleopatra hair, nice green VW Jetta, window open, so she could hear me real well when I said, quite mildly, I thought, “counter-clockwise”. She exploded, “YOU’RE wrong, wake up”. Actually I’m not wrong – you can only go left<\/a> if there’s no oncoming traffic – I was<\/em> there, so I was the oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n

And not quite as long term an anniversary, but I celebrated the pastry cream leftovers from Saturday’s dinner the same way I did after Dave & Jen’s anniversary two Sundays ago – parfaits.<\/p>\n\n

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