{"id":1785,"date":"2015-11-11T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2015-11-11T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:30:49","slug":"dinner-party-november-4-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Party – November 4, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hosted a dinner party at our house last night on behalf of our kids\u2019 school. It was a day of prep and cooking, and we couldn\u2019t have done it without Jim\u2019s nephew, Robert, who was a tremendous help.<\/p>\n

Here is our dining room:<\/p>\n

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dining room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We served the following:<\/p>\n

Thai Pumpkin Soup with Homemade Gougeres (unfortunately, all I have is a photo of the gougeres) plus a lesson learned: forgetting to set the timer results in seared gougeres, which are NOT edible (fortunately, I made a double batch):<\/p>\n

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Dungeness Crab served on top of Un-Crab Cakes (the un-crab cakes are made with hearts of palm), and another lesson learned when you marry a Washington state native–Dungeness crab is the best crab in the world:<\/p>\n

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un-crab crab cakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Asian Duck Cassoulet served with Asian citrus salad<\/p>\n

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Asian duck cassoulet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

and, finally, Chocolate Pots de Cr\u00e8me served with a dollop of fresh whipped cream<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Pots de Creme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a really fun time cooking the meal. (Straightening up the house enough so that it was fit for company wasn\u2019t quite as entertaining, but it was necessary.) All in all, I think it was a successful dinner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hosted a dinner party at our house last night on behalf of our kids\u2019 school. It was a day of prep and cooking, and we couldn\u2019t have done it without Jim\u2019s nephew, Robert, who was a tremendous help. Here is our dining room: We served the following: Thai Pumpkin Soup with Homemade Gougeres (unfortunately, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,82],"tags":[340],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-fun","tag-cooking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-sN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}