On Aug 19, 7:00 pm, "Davlo" > wrote:
> Since this is all about cooking, here's a game;
>
> If you could have any three people over for a dinner party, who would they
> be, and what would you cook?
>
> I'll post my answer when I've come up with one.

A. J. Cook, Katherine Heigl and Bill Clinton. The first two are the
most attractive actresses I know of. It would be nice to be in the
same room with them. It would also be nice to see Bill Clinton in a
room with two such lovely young ladies.

I would start with a simple salad of leaf, romaine and iceberg
lettuces, locally grown tomatoes, and a very light dressing of just
EVOO and freshly squeezed lemon juice, with some shaved whole milk
mozzarella on top.
Then I'd serve either:

1. Beef tenderloin fillets, cooked as they like over seasoned
hickory, with mashed potatoes and beef gravy.

or

2. Corn meal breaded Icelandic cod, fried in peanut oil and drenched
in melted butter, with fresh lemon wedges and a generous pile of
pommes frites. I'd have Heinz ketchup and a shaker of popcorn salt
on the table for the fries.

In either case, plenty of nice ice water and Bell's Pale Ale on hand,
and also wine, though I'm so ignorant about wine that I'd have to
consult my nephew on the choice.

Dessert would be a mixed berry (raspberry, blackberry, blueberry) fool
(made with Chambord) with slices of fresh peaches stuck in it around
the sides (heck, I don't know fancy words for presentation), in nice-
sized (large) ramekins. Brewed Sumatran coffee, with heavy cream,
sugar and Splenda available.

Since this has become (was to begin with) just some outrageous
fantasy, I'd persuade them all to talk about political economy,
personal freedom, and then I'd play a bunch of music for them that I'd
pre-selected, we'd all get stinking drunk and...my description ends
there.

--Bryan