Yesterday was my husband birthday and we were having maybe 40 guests. I was watching the weather closely because it’s rain season now and I was happy to see that rain was stopping. Well, until I was starting setting the food 🙄. It was pouring like crazy and we were thinking of canceling but eventually cleared. These only some of the pictures, I was too busy for it.
I made mini burger (buns with a brioche dough) and inside a base of sobrasada and actually a chicken croquette instead of slider and a candied piquillo pepper, watercress.
Skewers of cherry mozzarella and cherry tomatoes confit and a crouton; of roasted zucchini and shrimps; also of mint, olives, marinated feta and melon. A cauliflower salad from Ottolenghi. Eggplant caviar. I made chinese pork roast but instead of the steam buns that I couldn’t reheat I used the italian tigelle, with cucumber marinated in ginger juice and some spicy sprouts, eggplant kuku, and also piadines that people thought were quesadillas, filling queso tetilla, roasted vegetables, rucola and spinach, etc. We had the slicer going with all the Spanish charcuterie, we ended up not opening the Jamón, too much work. Cheese. I made a huge bowl of crackers and grissini with rosemary and raisins.
On the grill we had picanha and flap meat not pictured, I was busy slicing.
For dessert I made bignè, puffs with pastry cream. A crostata with apricot jam, than I made a galette with frangipane filling using brioche as dough instead of puff pastry.
