Weekend recap: Premier soiree 2015

Entertaining is exhausting eh.  We had M&M over on Saturday and I am still beat down and ugly on Monday morning.  Egad man!  All I can manage is a rundown of the service:

“Party like it’s 1978” apps:

-          peel and eat shrimp, cocktail sauce with house prepared horseradish,

-          Knorr spinach dip with baguette and blue tortillas,

-          the cheeses platter: Saint Agur bleu, d’Affinois brie, Vasterbotten aka “the emperor of cheeses,” dried CostCo Calimyrna figs, Castelvetrano olives,

“Spanning the globe to bring you a constant variety of aperitifs”:

-          Long Island Caesar: LIV vodka, Clamato + the standard Bloody accouterments,

-          Long Island Mule: LIV vodka, ginger beer, lime juice,

-          beer: Dortmunder Export

-          cider: Strongbow Golden Apple

-          soda: Oranzada aka Polish Pepsi

Down on Mains Street:  “Recalling Tehran”

-         fall off the bone (if there were one,) spice perfumed boneless shoulder of lamb (lamb from CostCo, recipe from Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour,) 

-          saffron buttered basmati rice,

-          Miller’s farm cucumber salad because some dumb ass mofo forgot to make the fucking Shirazi salad despite having prepared both menu and a numbered checklist of the cooking requisite steps to put dinner on the table.  Bad chef!  Good salad.  Next time, use the freaking checklist smart guy!

Red, red wine:

-          Bertani, Amarone della Valpolicella, 1999, (GS)

-          Trapiche, Finca Ambrosia, malbec, 2010,

-          Paumanok, cabernet franc, 2013.

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em:

-          Padron torpedo (GS.)

Our just desserts:

-          chocolate mini babka, Junda’s Crust and Crumb Jamesport,

-          chocolate éclairs, Blue Duck Bakery, River City,

-          café du chateau, Maxwell House.

Digestivos:

-          house made Limoncello,

-          Old Krupnik, Polish honey liqueur, via Stasia Makar Imports.

Second meal:

-          Guest supplied (GS) meat platter of the first order.  The finest selection of the smoked meats arts procured and imported from far away, can’t get there from here Brooklyn: kielbasa, prosciutto, cured pork loin, goose liver liverwurst served with sliced pickles.  Guests who supply components of a meat platter of the first order, are guests of the first order.  Kudos and thank you M&M!

If the NY Rangers had not lain a major egg in Game 2 later that same day, I could call the day perfect.  It’s good to be the king of even this minor ramshackle realm.  Ask my insurance carrier how ramshackle, they'll tell you.  There's a Europeasant stink eye curse headed your way you greedy bastards!  Peace and happiness to everyone else!