What Do You Think About This Menu For Tomorrow Night?

[slinkerwink]

I'm planning to make fried red tomatoes with goat cheese stuffed chicken and mashed potatoes with parmesan and sundried tomatoes. How does that sound to you? I'm making this meal because my friend is coming up from DC to help me protest on my birthday.

:-)


P.S.....I need suggestions on what to use for a nice cocktail.

[commander bunnypants]

1. sounds good

DDQM

But you have to protest nekkid

[slinkerwink]

2. fuck no. that's just stupid.

[commander bunnypants]

3. passionette about that

edit spelling

DDQM

[slinkerwink]

5. lol----it's "passionate"

[GOPisEvil]

4. Are you breading the tomatoes in corn flakes?

:bounce:

Just kidding - sounds good. Enjoy the protesting.

[slinkerwink]

6. nah, I'm breading them in italian breadcrumbs after a dunk

in the egg wash.

[madrchsod]

7. for a moment i thought you wrote

"protest my birthday" you`ll have to wait till your as old as i am to protest your birthday...sounds like a nice dinner but you didn`t mention what you were planning to serve of refreshments...

[slinkerwink]

9. I was thinking something like a nice cocktail....

I'm really not sure on what to serve. Wine or a cocktail?

[seventhson]

12. For the Occasion: How's about MANHATTANS?

I think with the dinner you might need wine though

[slinkerwink]

19. yeah.....the suggestions tend to go for white wine

but I'm really not a fan of white wine---I prefer red wine. I'm thinking maybe rum and cokes.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Sounds good - its my brother's birthday too

we'll be there!

[slinkerwink]

10. ha!

Is your brother's birthday on the 29th?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. it is

[slinkerwink]

11. kick---still looking for cocktail suggestions

[wryter2000]

13. California chardonnay

Happy birthday.

[seventhson]

14. Cuba Libre?

That is wehat my father, who worked with the underground in WWII, liked to call 'em (Bacardi and Coca-Cola)

[slinkerwink]

18. that's probably what I'm tending to for dinner

[Butterflies]

16. Cosmopolitans

Like the Sex and the City girls drink. I don't know how to make them though.

[Beer Snob-50]

15. I think a good dry white wine.

but some fruity cocktails before dinner.

[slinkerwink]

17. what sort of fruity cocktails would that be?

[Beer Snob-50]

20. maragritas,daquiri's jmho eom

[Mandate My Ass]

21. Frozen watermelon margaritas are good

Cut about two cups watermelon into ice-cube sized chunks and freeze solid.

Put in blender with two parts tequila to one part cointreau and some sour mix or lime juice. Blend.

THese taste much better after sitting for half an hour or so in the freezer after they're made. Stir a couple times so they stay slushy.

[mwdem]

23. How about mojitos, a rum drink

made with rum, limes, crushed mint...check the net for recipes.

[kimchi]

24. Why do you taunt us?

Thank Goddess my cooking show addict husband didn't read that. I can barely make spaghetti.

[Snow]

25. Basil. You need some basil in there, somewhere, Slinker....

and what's for dessert? And the dessert wine. There's a very nice Chateau St Michelle, ummmm, Riesling, I think.

Don't do cocktails - have a nice dry sherry before the meal, then appropriate wine with. It sounds flavorful enough that a red would go well.....maybe something from Chile.

[VOX]

26. Mmm, slink, I'm *hungry*! My wife has been on a lemon-drop martini kick...

and she got her best friend going on it, too. It's kind of West Coast, but what the heck, here's how:

For 2 drinks:

3 oz. vodka
1 1/2 oz. triple sec
2 tsp, superfine sugar (or ultrafine, but NOT regular sugar)
1 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. water
Ice cubes
Fresh lemon

Mix the vodka, triple sec, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice; shake well (40 times, no less!). Pour strained liquor into a sugar-rimmed martini glass and finish with a twist of lemon. Note: To create a proper sugar-rimmed glass, take a lemon wedge and rub the drinking surface so it is barely moist, then dip the edge of the glass into sugar. Do this 1/2 hour before serving, and the sugar will stay on the glass like hard candy.

Cheers!!!!

[Zomby Woof]

27. it's not worth a damn!

Unless you invite your DU buddies over. ;-)

[SOteric]

28. A little too heavy on the tomatoes, though I love the

goat cheese stuffed chicken. If you're intent on frying tomatoes, perhaps another flavouring for the mash, such as pesto, -or mascarpone and flecks of pancetta. If you're intent on the sundried toms in mash, - maybe skip the fried tomatoes and coat the chicken in a spicy lemon-garlic sauce, in the style of the Tuscans and the Basque.

For a cocktail, it's the perfect time of year for a pert Italian belini. Take a pound fresh, peeled, white peaches and pulp them. Add just a bit of sugar and squeeze of lemon the juice and pulp of the peaches, then one bottle of Asti, or a brut champagne. :hi:

[VOX]

29. Kick for Slink.

Keep those cocktail suggestions coming!

[slinkerwink]

30. thanks for the kick!

:-)