About this trail:
My husband and I have started a tradition of celebrating Valentine's Day each year with a fancy dinner at home. We dress up, deck out the table with nice linens and dishes, and drink wine with each course. This trail describes the dishes I prepared for this year's dinner. I designed each course to work well with a Riesling or a Sauvignon Blanc.
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Prepare 6 baskets ahead of time and refrigerate. (About 1/3 recipe as described.) Silicone cookie sheet would have been nice, but PAM spray worked ok. I used the egg carton for shaping. Serve 3 baskets on each plate, arranged in a triangle.
2
Prepare a port wine reduction ahead of time. (Onions, carrots, and bay leaves are optional.)
Just before dinner, prepare a salad with the following ingredients artfully arranged: baby spinach, 3 pear slices, 1 oz. slice goat cheese, roasted walnuts. When time to serve, drizzle port wine reduction and lemon vinaigrette, if desired.
Just before dinner, prepare a salad with the following ingredients artfully arranged: baby spinach, 3 pear slices, 1 oz. slice goat cheese, roasted walnuts. When time to serve, drizzle port wine reduction and lemon vinaigrette, if desired.
3
Prepare just before dinner and reheat quickly in pot when it it time to serve. Use a 1/2 cup measuring cup to mold and turn over onto each plate. Garnish with fanned basil leaves.
4
Prepare sorbet ahead of time and serve in lemon shell, or in small custard dish.
5
Ignore the bisque recipe - marinate salmon as described, starting before dinner. Broil salmon during previous course. Serve with fanned asparagus spears (next trail mark.)
6
Prepare during the previous course, serve with broiled salmon.
7
Prepare sauce ahead of dinner. Heat sauce during previous course and pan-sear scallops between courses. I left out the pasta and simply served three giant scallops with sauce on each plate. Serve also with zucchini spaghetti (next trail mark.) Keep it separate from the sauce!
8
Prepare ahead of time and serve as garnish with pan-seared scallops.
9
Prepare batter and put into muffin tin ahead of dinner (keep in fridge.) Preheat oven and bake during previous courses.
10
Arrange neatly on a small sushi plate before dinner. Serve with a fruity liqueur if desired.
