Meeting the parents

[Ralara]

My guy is coming over tonight for dinner - first time he's met my mum... cooking for both of them

• Chicken breast wrapped in ham with bayonnais butter and asparagus
• New potatoes in Alpine butter with just picked mint leaves and a little salt and pepper
• Fresh basil pesto with a hint of garlic and crushed black pepper corns on pasta, topped with sun dried tomatoes in olive oil
• Thick white crusty bread with olive oil and sesame seed oil dips
• Steamed baby thin carrots in butter with a little bit of brown sugar

New Zealand Marlborough dry white wine

He's bringing Tiramasu as the desert / tribute for the fire god.


suggestions / comments?

Friend suggest coriander instead of mint leaves but I'm not too sure on that one...

Possibly balsamic vinegar over sesame seed oil?

[filingo]

can you actually cook meight?

[bundus]

Of course balsamic instead of sesame, maybe a little bowl of coarse rock salt
New potatoes as opposed to ... old potatoes?
Stick with the mint leaves its tastier.
Watch that ham doesn't "fry" with the butter unless you are going for the crispy edge

[Navigator Six]

Pesto with "a hint" of garlic? That sounds like puréed basil to me. ++garlic (also, pine nuts are amazing in pesto if you haven't already got 'em in there)

[definatelynotKKassandra]

New potatoes as opposed to ... old potatoes?

Yes?

[bundus]

New potatoes as opposed to ... old potatoes?

Yes?

Pretend that I come from australia and explain it to me, fake edit; they are just premature potatoes I see.

[definatelynotKKassandra]

They have a distinctive and very nice taste - they actually have flavour and such Golf ball sized, straight out of the ground - yummy.

[Chrien]

New potatos are the ones you can leave the skins on right? If so they're called exactly that in Australia (so bundus is just uninformed!)

[lt]

New potatos are the ones you can leave the skins on right? If so they're called exactly that in Australia (so bundus is just uninformed!)

Yes.

:TpTlk:

[Ralara]

can you actually cook meight?

very well you twerp.

and i can cook more than just turnips, too

[FatFreddy]

Yo those potatoes have to be done with butter + chive, not mint. Trust me.

[Ralara]

Yo those potatoes have to be done with butter + chive, not mint. Trust me.

2 weeks ago lol

mint was fine in the end.

[FatFreddy]

Well you better make them with chive next time!