Sunday, February 12, 2012

Dinner Party, February 11, 2012


Dinner for ten, Larchmont, NY.

Cheese board
Warm endive and poached carrot salad
Flounder en papillote with pommes de terre boulangere
Pate feuilletee with chocolate pastry cream, whipped mascarpone, and dehydrated apple chips


Brown-sugar braised endive.



Warm endive and poached carrot salad; micro mustard greens; brown butter vinaigrette.















Pomme de terre boulangere.



Flounder en papillote.



Papillote; lemon slice; fresh dill and thyme; julienne of leeks and carrots; sauteed wild mushrooms.












Pate feuilletee; chocolate pastry cream; whipped mascarpone; dehydrated apple chip garnish.







Carrot prep.




Composed cheese board: trio of cheeses; quince paste; toasted nuts; oil-cured olives.




Papillote prep.











Saturday, December 3, 2011

Baby's First Birthday Party, December 3, 2011


Butterscotch pudding; cinnamon whipped cream.



Pudding.



Selection of cheeses; curry-spiced nuts.



Ham sliders; dijon mustard; red eye gravy.



Roast turkey tea sandwiches; curried mayonnaise; pear slices.



Bean salad; baguette.



Cranberry compote.



Roasted baby potatoes; parsley pesto.



Pickled fennel, cucumber, carrots.



Roasted pear skewers; garlic; thyme.



White bean salad; shallots; celery; lemon vinaigrette.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Baby Christening, November 13, 2011









Roast pork loin; soy-honey glaze; Napa cabbage slaw with black sesame.


Turkey banh mi; sriracha mayonnaise; pickled cucumber, daikon, and carrot.


Persian cucumber salad; red ball radish and daikon; lime vinaigrette.


Hot mustard potato salad; scallions; cilantro.


Goat cheese crostini; soy sauce mushrooms; sauteed bok choy.

Apple tartlets; Chinese five spice; raisins.


More banh mi...


Tartlets.


Crostini.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Event, February 5, 2011



Saturday, February 5, 2011. Party of six in a private residence in New Rochelle, New York. Pictured: appetizer course of sweet potato bisque with heavy cream, pumpernickel croutons, and caraway seeds. This course was served with the Urban Uco Torrontes from Argentina.





For cocktails, we served ginger-rosemary bellinis with a candied ginger garnish.




Along with the cocktails, snacks were served: seasonal pickles (rutabaga, red ball radish, watermelon radish, and fennel) and mixed oil-cured olives.





The menu was presented in the dining room, along with the wine pairings, on this blackboard (apologies for the misspelling of the word "zinfandel.")





Prepping out the main course...





...of bone-in pork chops with sauce grenobloise (brown butter, capers, lemon juice, parsley), butter-glazed carrots, and agrodolce red cabbage, served with the Orleans Hill organic Syrah from California.





For dessert, we served apple-raisin pot pies seasoned with turmeric and white pepper. To accompany it, cardamom whipped cream with meyer lemon and the Jackson-Triggs Vidal Icewine from Canada.
























































Saturday, October 16, 2010

Inaugural Event

Tonight, Palindrome Plates catered our first event, a baby shower for nearly thirty on Roosevelt Island. The shower was a co-ed cocktail party and our dishes were designed to sit comfortably at room temperature while guests played games and tippled. Below are some photographs of the food served this evening.


Cheese board of Kerrygold Irish Cheddar, Uniekaas Gouda, Hudson Valley Camembert,
and 'Le Fournols,' accompanied by fennel mustard and Concord grape compote:



Roast beef-wrapped fennel with horseradish sauce:



Spiced apple tartlets with golden raisins:



White bean crostini and fresh dill:



Butternut squash cookies with cranberry royal icing:



Cured American ham with red eye gravy:



Tapenade trio
Green olive and thyme; eggplant and sage; roasted red pepper, cucumber, and rosemary:



Rosemary roast chicken sliders with cumin barbecue sauce,
vinegar pickles, and crispy chicken skin:



Sweet potatoes stuffed with chive sour cream:


We also served roasted beet skewers with Coach Farms goat cheese and baby spinach (not pictured) and cranberry-ginger bellinis (also not pictured). Contact us now to cater your next event.