(Community Matters) Well, really a reading two days for Tana & me. We drove to Surfside today to join Kip Keller & Michael Barnes and the four friends remaining after a long weekend. There were 20+ friends here this weekend – it could easily be called the food & wine week. Folks team to cook each and every meal – it’s a competitive sport among this crowd – especially former Statesman food critic, Dale Rice, CA tech exec Paul Tally, and UT South American Studies professor, Nick Shumway.
Not a pancake or a kings cake in the house tonight – rats, I forget I intended to make one, modifying the recipe I used for Three Kings Day.
We did enjoy mojitos while playing croquet; wine with Lockhart BBQ for dinner, and Paul’s filet mignon for dessert – actually a chocolate mousse wrapped with a plastic chocolate disguised as bacon. There was even a raspberry mousse in the center to simulate rareness.
Tana & I are on tomorrow, planning a meal including homemade pork & queso tamales, spicy guacamole and fire roasted tomato salsa served with fresh fried corn tortilla chips as an appetizer. The main course: a new, secret mole & pollo, Diana Kennedy’s mexican white rice, slow cooked black beans with ham hock, fresh flour & corn tortillas and a baby greens & herb salad with a avocado cream dressing.
Yeah, and some reading when we’re not too stuffed for anything more than a nap, or a mojito.
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