Creative Culinary – Denver Colorado Food and Cocktail Blog – Sharing food and drink with recipes and photography. Poor Girl Eats Well — How to eat ridiculously well on a minuscule budget. Test Your Tastebuds Dinner Party. Jun 1 I consider myself a fan of good food … but being able to identify it all once it is cooked up and sitting on your plate is a whole different thing. For this event we pitted some of our foodie friends against one another in a “TEST YOUR TASTEBUDS” dinner party. Nobody knew what food was being served, so each course was a surprise as it came out. Guests were given cards to keep score on, and got points based on how many correct ingredients that they could identify in each course. For this party, I enlisted the help of one of my good friends Tom Call, who has a long and impressive resume preparing food for some of SF’s finest eating establishments, and who just branched out into his own food venture, Made By Tom.
I convinced him to come cook a fine meal for our guests so that they wouldn’t have suffer through my attempts at a fancy meal (which, let’s face it, would have probably been kraft mac&cheese. To get everyone warmed up, we started off with Round 1 – the cheese plate. Make Ahead Meal Inspiration - 87 Freezer Meal Recipes. Make-Ahead Vegetarian Recipe: Beet & Sweet Potato Stacks. It's the details that matter the most at fancy dinner parties and holiday meals. Take this recipe. Really, it's just a warm beet salad. But assemble it in pretty layers, add some toasted walnuts and a citrusy vinaigrette, and suddenly you have a dish that elicits oohs and ahhs as you carry it proudly to the dinner table. Try to find beets and sweet potatoes that seem to be about the same width. One good-sized stack would make a fine main course for a vegetarian or someone eating gluten-free as long as there are a few other vegetarian-friendly dishes on the table to round the meal out.
It's difficult to end up with exactly the right ratio of beets to beet greens to sweet potatoes with this recipe. Warm Beet and Sweet Potato Stacks Serves 4-6 For the Stacks 4 large beets with their greens2 good-sized, uniformly shaped sweet potatoes1 tablespoon olive oil1 teaspoon smoked paprika1 teaspoon salt, plus more for seasoning1 cup walnuts1 large onion2 tablespoons cider vinegar8 oz goat cheese. Fine Cooking - quick recipes, ingredients guide, how-to videos and community.