Today I will show you two of my most recent favorite dishes that I managed to remember to photograph. Coincidentally, both are desserts.
Exhibit A:
Espresso flavored chocolate pudding served in coffee cups. Cute! I got the idea from her magazine but used a different recipe that was cooked on the stove top instead of in the oven. Basically, it's regular chocolate pudding with some instant coffee added at the end. I served it with mini store bought biscotti and whip cream (get it? cream for your coffee). It was not only a whimsical but a delicious dessert.
Exhibit B:
Baked Alaska. For those of you not familiar with this retro classic, it's got a cake bottom, a dome of ice-cream, and soft meringue topping. You brown the meringue under the oven broiler or by pouring rum over it and lighting it on fire. The meringue insulates the ice-cream from the heat long enough for you to impress your guests and serve it before it melts. I made the cake and the meringue from scratch but used store bought ice-cream. It was a totally impressive dessert.
I have been getting really into throwing dinner parties the past few months. I think it's because it's currently one of the few areas of my life where I can really excel. I spend most of my day doing one or more of the following three things: 1) coordinating substitutes for the International School--boooriiing 2) fighting an uphill battle trying to establish myself as a professional barefoot trimmer in a very traditional horse community 3) learning Danish—the ugliest, most difficult to pronounce language in Europe. I am not used to spending so much time doing things that I (in order of appearance) find dull, am not appreciated for, or am not good at. I both enjoy, am good at, and am appreciated for throwing good dinner parties so I think that's why I have been getting really into giving good ones lately.
Dinner parties are great. I would be throwing some as well if I had a home (that was not a cry for pity).
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