Tonight's Specials

My boy and I are very grateful for the wonderful friends and family we've been blessed with. Some people post frequently in November sharing the list of things for which they're grateful. Clearly I am not that type of person :).

My boy and I do like to play host though, so we thought we'd invite all of our local friends to stop by our house on Saturday between 2:00pm and 8:00pm so we could feed them and fellowship for a little while. I mentioned in my last post that I'm really behind the 8 ball for a party, well this is it!

I thought I'd post the tentative menu for this party that's been neglected so long. Items in red we've completely given up on, Items in green have been made, Items in yellowish orange have been started, items in black haven't been touched at all (are you as worried as I am?!):

Bread basket (roasted garlic, baguette, challah)/possibly parmesan cookies

plain butter, blackberry lemon butter

eggplant walnut dip: http://www.chow.com/recipes/13433-roasted-eggplant-and-walnut-dip

Maple Onion Jam http://www.countryhome.com/images/PDFs/Maple-OnionJam.pdf

blue cheese pate

blackberries (possibly other fruit if creme anglaise is made)

Crudite & dip -- someone took this out of my hands!

Gruyere honey mustard puffs

possibly cheddar olives: http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/hors-doeuvres/recipe-cheddar-olives-047009

some kind of flavored popcorn -- thank you little lad

Roasted Fall Vegetable Pizza: http://www.marthastewart.com/313662/roasted-fall-vegetable-and-ricotta-pizza

Dinner:

Some kind of meat (suckling pig?, chicken from chinatown? pot roast? brisket?)

roasted potato stacks http://gourmandrecipes.com/roasted-potato-recipe/

Balsamic mushrooms (and/or brussel sprouts)

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/main-dish/quick-recipe-pumpkin-ricotta-pasta-casserole-130962 ricotta pumpkin casserole

Dessert:

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/dessert/recipe-chewy-molasses-cookies-with-crunchy-lemon-glaze-130827 lemon glazed soft ginger cookies

pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting

vanilla ice cream

maple ginger ice cream

possibly madelines

possibly peanut butter smash cookies

possibly creme anglaise

possibly meringue

Drinks:

Chilled Cranberry ginger punch (with sparkling water if desired)http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/hot-cranberry-ginger-punch-10000000633522/ hot apple cider, sparkling wine, red wine, root beer

Clearly we have a ways to go. . . I'll let you know how it all turns out!