{"id":995,"date":"2013-10-17T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=995"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:06:02","slug":"dinner-with-friends-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with Friends, Take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hosted another dinner party as part of our donation to our school\u2019s auction to raise money for financial aid.\u00a0 During the time between our first school auction dinner party and this one, we bought a new dining room table and chairs, so this is what the new setup looks like (we\u2019re quite pleased with it):<\/p>\n

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new dining room table & chairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We started off dinner with an amuse-bouche, consisting of “breakfast”–a miniature Spanish omelet, lobster over miniature pancakes served with vanilla-infused maple syrup, and a gougere with country ham and quail egg served with a miniature mimosa.\u00a0 (The photo is from back to front.)<\/p>\n

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“breakfast” amuse-bouche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next up was Thai pumpkin soup served in an acorn squash bowl served with the 1998 Pol Roger Winston Churchill champagne.<\/p>\n

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Thai pumpkin soup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After that was crab served on top of an un-crab cake, which was made with hearts of palm to resemble the consistency of crabcakes.\u00a0 It was served with miniature spicy peppers and a 2009 Louis Latour Corton Charlemagne (a white burgundy).<\/p>\n

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crab on top of an un-crab cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then came the obligatory (for us) foie gras dish served with pomegranate seeds, black cherry compote, and Parmesan tulles.\u00a0 The accompanying wine was a 2006 Edge Hill Mixed Blacks.<\/p>\n

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foie gras with parmesan tulles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The main course was an Asian duck cassoulet (with edamame instead of beans).\u00a0 This was served along with a citrus cardamom salad, saut\u00e9ed mushrooms with sesame seeds, and Japanese pickles.\u00a0 The wine was a 2007 Rudd Oakville Estate Proprietary Red.<\/p>\n

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

Then came the palate cleansing course, the trio of sorbets (pomegranate, blood orange, and tangerine).<\/p>\n

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trio of sorbets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dessert was chocolate pot de cr\u00e8me served with Dean & Deluca chocolates.\u00a0 Served with it was a 1990 Rayne Vigneau.<\/p>\n

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chocolate pot de creme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a lovely evening, and I think great fun was had by all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hosted another dinner party as part of our donation to our school\u2019s auction to raise money for financial aid.\u00a0 During the time between our first school auction dinner party and this one, we bought a new dining room table and chairs, so this is what the new setup looks like (we\u2019re quite pleased with […]<\/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":[75,55],"tags":[340,117,116],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-school","tag-cooking","tag-dinner","tag-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-g3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}