Black jack, roulette, and a whole lotta winning foods to help you keep your head in the game. All bets are on this elegant meal, served buffet style so you can move around from table to table while you eat. A classy meal made for a gamer.
Gameplan
2 Days Before Party:
Mix Focaccia dough and allow to rise for Country Focaccia with Blue Cheese and Honey.
Salt eggplant and set aside to soak for Roasted Eggplant Tomato Stack.
Continue to knead Focaccia dough and mix in the rest of the flour for the Country Focaccia with Blue Cheese and Honey.
Stuff and coat olives for Fried Olives, refrigerate to set coating.
Spread out Focaccia dough into a cookie sheet and allow to rise final time for Country with Blue Cheese and Honey.
Fry coated olives for Fried Olives.
Cover Focaccia with rosemary and olive oil and place it in oven to bake for Country Focaccia with Blue Cheese and Honey.
2 Hours Before Party:
Season swordfish and brown over stove top for Swordfish Prime Rib, place in oven to roast.
Toss eggplant and tomato with seasonings for Roasted Eggplant Tomato stacks, place them in oven to brown.
Stack Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Stacks to ready for serving.
At Party:
Top baked Focaccia with blue cheese and honey for Country Focaccia with Blue Cheese and Honey.
Mix Dirty Martinis and serve in pre-chilled glasses.
Eat and Enjoy!
Short on time, but not on guests? We�ll show you how to make dinner in under an hour using some delicious prepared foods.
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Gameplan
Day Before Party:
Roast Peppers on burner or hot plate. Steam roasted peppers in a paper bag for a few minutes.
Combine fennel seeds, white pepper corn, and coriander. Roast the seeds dry in a sauté pan, and grind the mixture with some gray salt. Put in a container and save for the party.
Peal, remove seeds, and tear apart roasted peppers. Season with salt, pepper, and extra virgin olive oil. Plate, cover, and refrigerate peppers for the party.
Day of the Party:
Toast shredded coconut for flan dessert.
Cut and blanche brussel sprouts for cassoulet.
Combine and simmer coconut milk, milk, and cream in a sauce pan for flan dessert. Add toasted coconut.
Slice and caramelize onions, Parsnips, peeled celery and carrots for cassoulet. Add blanched brussel sprouts and season with salt, pepper, and fennel spice rub.
Separate chicken for cassoulet, heavily season with fennel spice rub, and caramelize in pan.
1 Hour Before Party:
Slice pancetta, add a couple cloves of garlic, and cook in your cast iron pan. Once caramelized add white beans, chicken, and vegetables. Bake cassoulet.
Whisk eggs and egg yolks together. Strain in coconut milk mixture. Make caramel for flan dessert. Ladle caramel and custard into mason jars and bake in the oven in a water bath. Remove from mason jars after dinner and serve.
Slice pecorino cheese and add to roasted peppers with Italian parsley.
Eat and Enjoy!
The holidays are always a whirlwind of activity. Here's a menu that's relatively quick and easy to prepare, which is a key to an enjoyable party at this stressful time of the year. Recipes include Roasted Red Pepper and Fresh Herb Frittata, Potato Latkes with Cranberry Jam and Salmon Wellington.
This country is such a melting pot of cultures and cuisines. And we're gonna pass it on with recipes like, Crawfish and Roasted Sweet Potato Salad with Fried Okra and Buttermilk Dressing, Greek Souvlaki Sandwich, Warm Watercress Salad with Stir Fried Beef and Kid Friendly Kim Chi, and Spagheti Bolognese.
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