Elaborate Menus

Elaborate menus go hand in hand with Book Club meetings in these parts. 

After Negronis and Campari with OJ...

Let's start off with warm olives marinated in olive oil, with rosemary, garlic and a hint of chili flake.

And bruschetta with braised cannellini beans, pickled shallot, chard and ricotta salata.

Fennel and arugula salad.

(Some bobos hanging out.)

Gnocchi with sage and brown butter sauce. My absolute favorite.

And for Meat Lovers, Inc., meatballs braised  in tomato sauce.

And to fill the wee space still left in one's tummy, Chocolate Cake with chocolate ganache,

caramel filling and fleur de sel.

And finally, some home-brewed limoncello, as modeled by cutie pie sep.

The next night, Head Chef and the Team repeated the Book Club menu with leftovers, which has resulted in massive over-stuffing of one's stomach and the past couple of nights waking up in stomach-pain agony. But it's all good. Good food is worth the pain!

PS: if someone can help me figure out how to use this crazy new camera of mine...

my photos are awful!!