Raz made two beautiful loaves of challah that we ate in a variety of ways--plain, with butter, with honey, with honey and yogurt... It was delicious, no matter what condiment was added! We also made a plethora of bad challah puns.
In addition, he created a gorgeous orange soup composed of butternut squash, chipotle, and peanuts (possibly also some sage?). The soup was seriously delicious, but on the spicy side for me. I added some plain yogurt and that was both tasty and lowered the spiciness to a more tolerable level. Heather brought some good crusty bread from le panier, so we had plenty of carbohydrates on hand in case of emergency.
Sara made a delicious salad with spinach, walnuts, grapes, pear, blue cheese, and what appeared to be a dijon/balsamic dressing. I have been seriously lacking in the salad department as of late, and I devoured this one. I can't make a good salad to save my life! Raz promised to give me some good salad recipes, so I think the salad situation in my house is about to be looking up.
Raz's adorable father and stepmother roasted wintry root vegetables like carrots, parsnips, potatoes, purple potatoes, and probably more things that I am forgetting.
We drank two bottles of Gnarly Head Cabernet, which I have had before and remembered as being thoroughly enjoyable (it was). Chris brought Snoqualmie ice cream in three varieties: ginger, lemon custard, and lavender. I'm pretty sure lavender was unanimously the favorite, and it was easily the best lavender ice cream I have ever had.
This was probably one of the best dinner parties I have been to for a while. I was so full when it was over, I had to sleep off my food coma in Raz's guest bedroom!
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