What an awesome night! We met at Cindy's and raided her enormous veggie garden and then headed into her kitchen and created our meal for the evening. Once again I was amazed how our group just clicked and the crowded kitchen of 8 cooks just had a flow to it that look liked it took years of practice.
While touring Cindy's fabulous garden we sipped
Italian Sangria and
Pink Grapefruit Cocktails.
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| Denise and Nina |
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| Rita, Denise and Cindy |
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| Betty and Cindy |
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| Angi |
There were so many veggies to choose from.....
In the kitchen there was stuffed squash blossoms, eggplant, zucchini boats, garden soup with Parmesan cheese and crostini, melon salad, roasted, beet salad, grilled striped bass,
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| Squash blossoms |
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| Baked eggplants with fresh mozzarella & fresh tomato sauce |
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| Squash soup with crostini |
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| Cucumber, melon, gorgonzola and pecan salad |
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| Roasted beet salad |
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| Stuffed zucchini boats with ground sausage, basil, breadcrumbs, tomato and cheese |
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| Bowl of steamed mussels |
We completed our meal with a fabulous dessert of a traditional Greek vassilopita cake with
blueberry compote. Check out the "
Recipes" page for the cake recipe.
Almost the full group together... we're missing Jeanne who was not able to make it. Another fun night - thanks ladies!
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| Angi, Denise, Rita, Jen, Cindy, Jen, Betty and Nina |
