Dinner was a Smash Success!

We started dinner at 8:00 and ended at Midnight! It was one of those dreamy evenings where every course was just as I imagined it. But by far the star of the show was the egg ravioli. It was perfect: My homemade pasta, the freshest sheep milk ricotta infused with lemon, lemon thyme, nutmeg, and the egg all glistening with a butter/truffle sauce. Cutting into the ravioli released the unctous yolk which then cooked slightly in the butter sauce to create a gentle custard that begged for a crust of bread to lift it to everyone’s watering mouths. One of the guests, my upstairs neighbor, actually wiped away a tear upon cutting into it, a memory I shall never forget!

Truffle Dinner Tonight

Tonight, we are hosting a dinner for an executive from an investment company and her world-travelling explorer husband.  They always take us out to the best restos on expense,  but insist that they come to our house for dinner because they love the experience.  Tonight we have settled on a truffle dinner focuses around a large, aromatic black truffle from Perigord, France, purchased at Andrew’s Cheese shop on Montana Ave, in Santa Monica.  The menu is as follows:

Goat Cheese and Balsamic Onion Toasts with Champagne

Roast Cauliflower Soup with Truffle

Ravioli with Sheep’s Milk Ricotta and Egg in Truffle Butter

White Salad of Shaved Fennel and Artichoke

Grilled Haloumi and Roast Potatoes

Cheese Course

Deconstructed Black Forest Cake

 

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