saturday's soiree

my first crack at hosting a dinner party

~the tablescape~

nothing too fancy

~dishes i served~

prosciutto and smoked salmon

shrimp cocktails

chicken sopas (i cheated and asked my mom to make it for me)

baby greens with goat cheese, mangoes, dried cranberries with raspberry & orange poppy seed dressings

chicken a la des (my own recipe) with parmesan stringbeans and sugared carrots over pilaf rice

flank steak with peppercorn sauce over garlic butter noodles ( i got this recipe off the foodnetwork.com)

and for dessert: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries with hazel nut syrup and mascarpone cheese on top.

My guests ate every dish with great gusto, especially my mom's sopas. Fortunately none of them suffered from food poisoning after consuming the food i actually cooked (much to my relief haha) . Thank you guys for coming and double thanks for helping me clean up after the party.

As Martha Stewart would say "It's a good thing".