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A 10-Course New Year’s Eve Dinner

January 13, 2014
New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

These days time feels like it is going by even faster than I can ever remember. I feel like I need to start documenting things that happen throughout the year a bit more, so I intend to share a few more bits and pieces on this blog in 2014. I’m horrible at keeping a journal, I haven’t scrapbooked in ya-EARS and the only thing I keep up with consistently these days is taking pictures that I don’t organize unless I blog about them. o/

This past Near Year’s Eve I celebrated with Sean’s brother and his wife who just had a baby– little Finn. We decided to get dressed up, stay in, and cook a 10-course meal together. The meal took about 4 hours to eat and drink the wine paired with everything, but it was SO MUCH FUN. I’m pretty sure the whole thing started with the fact that someone wanted to use their new wedding china. 😛

The gentlemen got all dressed up in tuxes… Even babeh Finn. 🙂
New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Paul, Sean’s brother, did a bit of research in planning the menu and paired wines with each dish. It was really fun to see how wines paired with different foods and cheeses. One thing I also learned is that in some cookbooks, there are planned menus for certain styles of dinners. A spring luncheon, a New Year’s Day brunch, an October picnic– all in a cookbook. Who knew? Seems like there *are* things that you can learn outside the internet. 😉 Below is each course we had in our NYE dinner.

Course #1: Cheese, salami, prosciutto, capicola, and cocktails.

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

We discovered the Grace Kelly cocktail at the Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint when Paul and Kelsi came to visit in January 2013. They couldn’t find the recipe anywhere online and have been fiddling with it until they got it just right. 🙂
New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #2: Pumpkin soup.

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #3: Blue cheese salad with apples and walnuts.

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #4: Sweet potato gnocchi.

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #5: Lemon sorbet, a palate cleanser. 🙂

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #6: Salmon filet on a bed of wild rice.

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #7: Filet mignon, popovers, and garlic potatoes.

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #8: Fresh pineapple. (Another palate cleanser.)

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #9: Crème brûlée.

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Torches…
New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

Course #10: Cheese, dark chocolate, honey, and port

New Year's Eve 10-Course Meal

While this kind of thing would be a bit more work to pull off in NYC without a dishwasher, it was so fun to pretend we were in Downton Abbey for a night. If you’ve got a rainy slow weekend, I definitely recommend trying a multiple-course meal. It’s something I’ll remember for a while. 🙂

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  • Maria January 13, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    This looks so awesome. How did you guys handle the cooking part? Did you cook everything all at once, then eat things one at a time, or did you cook as you went?