Vanderbrew

Dinner last night was quite an enjoyable event.

Yesterday afternoon, I asked Amber if she’d rather do more of a finger-food, casual kind of dinner. She agreed and here’s the result with an ecstatic Emma overseeing the documentation.

The bread (lower right) is a Garlic Parmesan with some basil and sun-dried tomato bruschetta thrown in. We bake it in a cast-iron pot wit lid to get the shape and a really nice crust.

The triangles (above and right of bread) are phyllo dough triangles with a spinach and feta filling. We made a bunch of them for dinner on Christmas Eve and froze half. This is half of the half.

To the left of the triangles is some pear, and beyond that is cheese that Emma cut up on the cheese board. Just above the pears is some carrots and broccoli for dipping in the hummus.

The hummus (above the carrots and broccoli, with the 2 spoons in it) is the basic recipe from “Feeding the Whole Family” but I’ve added some of the sun-dried tomato bruschetta to give it some color and additional flavor.

The crackers (to the right of the carrots and broccoli) are Chickpea Crackers which we made in the afternoon. They were really good with hummus or cheese and had a very nice kick to them. We also mixed up the dough for Wine Biscuits and we’ll bake those today.

The wine in the back is our next-to-last bottle of wine that we started in October of 2005.

The purple/blue/pinkish flowers floating in the bowl next to the wine were picked and arranged by Emma to decorate our table.

So, there you have it - homemade bread, homemade crackers (we ground the chickpea flour in our mill), homemade hummus (with chickpeas that Amber cooked before and we had frozen and juice from lemons from our lemon tree), homemade wine, homemade phyllo dough triangles and homegrown flowers for decoration. The only thing that came out of a box was the phyllo dough.

We’re going to work on having homegrown fruits and veggies next time.

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