November 12
Min
Giving Thanks at Renee's
Another great Forking Delicious event! Renee and Jim, as always, you
are such gracious hosts!
Here's a run-up on the evening's menu:
1. Donna's cheese buns, special cream cheese dip (what was your mom's
special ingredient again?) with crackers.
2. Renee's Fried Turkey. Also, her sumptuous baked scalloped potatoes with
apples, blue cheese, asiago and parmesan cheeses! (Special thanks to Jim and Gabe, to Dana's big pot and the neighbor's fryer.)
3. Tinamarie's comforting, melt in your mouth sweet potatoes.
4. Lesu's pear and wild greens salad with her special bacon vinaigrette
dressing. Plus, her sauteed Swiss chard with toasted bread crumbs.
5. Dana's Ayurvedic squash soup - so healing!
6. Min's Tagliatelle Pasta with oyster mushrooms in sage and Valhrona
dark chocolate, served with freshly glazed cranberries and pecorino
romano.
7. Kathy's comforting pear and apple cobbler right out of the oven
served with french vanilla ice cream.
8. The whole evening was sprinkled by Jamie's wonderful smile and Big
Jim and Gabe's delightful company!
9. We were kept warm by the outdoor fireplace!
Cheers to you, Ladies!
Renee's Scalloped Potatoes
For a 9X13 dish - approximately:
6 potatoes sliced thin
6 apples- I used pink lady but I'm sure any apple will do.
Make one layer of potatoes and apples in a casserole dish like you would for scalloped potatoes...dot with butter..about 1/2
stick...
Drizzle heavy cream over the potatoes...just DRIZZLE not pour...
Add a bag of shredded asiago/parmesan cheese mix, crumbled blue cheese
Add another layer of potatoes and apples and DONE!
Bake @ 350 for about 40 minutes
You can use cheddar cheese too. Omit the blue cheese if you don't like it. I think this would be good with roast pork, but then again this would
be good with anything! Even as a Vegetarian dish with a salad
Lots of good flavors! Enjoy!
