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Last night we had a dinner party (BTW, does anyone have a good hangover cure?). We spent the week preparing for this. We made the spiced almonds and the salmon mousse during the week. Come yesterday, we still had to make the gazpacho, the choux puffs (to stuff the salmon mousse in -- damn that is good... add dill to the dough), the grilled vegetables, the sauteed leeks and mushrooms (the bed for the grilled scallops), the grilled scallops, the filet mignons and the lemon cake (I can't find the recipe online).

So the day was busy...I laughed when, at one point during the day as we are frantically trying to get everything ready, we had the contractors here working on the basement, J was helping me hang the art we had bought, and the delivery people showed up with our china cabinet.

So dinner turned out really well, but the hit was the lemon cake Adrienne spent 6 hours making Saturday. If I can find the recipe online I'll post it. It came from Fine Cooking. A 2 layer cake, with the layers split and lemon curd as the filling. For the cake, you make a sugar - lemon zest mixture and Adrienne also used European butter in making the cake. I don't know if that made the difference, but the cake was to die for.

Wines served through the evening were the J Sparkling, Gloria Ferrer Brut, Chateau St. Jean La Petite Etoile Fume Blanc, Loring Brosseau Pinot Noir and the Neipoort 10 year old Tawny.

posted by Dave @ 8:36 AM