It was our turn to host our monthly wine club last weekend. Truth be told, as much as we maintain the pretense of caring about wine, it's really become more of a dinner club where we just happen to get drunk. The focus is 100% on the food. We normally pick a region, country, or cuisine style as a theme, but this time I got a little more conceptual. Inspired by a book Sam gave me (
specifically this one), the theme for each course was a color. With so much fresh summer produce right now, it didn't seem like too much of a challenge. Plus it finally gave me a chance to buy the purple cauliflower I've always been curious about.
It seems fitting that I include some photos of our escapades:
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| Orange: pimento cheese dip and monkey gland cocktails to start |
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| Green: salad with greens avocado, shaved asparagus, and cucumber |
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| Purple: Blue corn tacos with chorizo, purple vegetables, and a purple potato based salsa. Yellow: corn salad |
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| Most of our colorful menu was all natural colors, but we certainly weren't going to say no to these rainbow cupcakes |
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| As a bonus, here's the purple vegetables before roasting. Aren't the beautiful? |
Definitely a very tasty and fun meal! I might spring the extra $1 for purple cauliflower again sometime.
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