Dinner at 8 (#7)

Amazing Aunt Audrey

11 years ago

Your celebrity guest is Betty White. What's on the menu?

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gardenspice
11 years ago
A nice spinach salad with fresh strawberries and garbanzos.
Grilled Portabella, marinated in soy, ginger and sesame, served with wild rice or quinoa and fresh steamed asparagus.
Eggless chocolate cupcakes
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
11 years ago
I love Betty White and would love to host a small dinner party for her.

We'd start the evening with mini pate a choux pastries stuffed with shrimp paste, roasted prosciutto wrapped asparagus, assorted fresh veggies and fresh tzatziki sauce.

She's a vodka drinker, so I would make sure that I had a best quality brand at the bar, ice balls made of distilled water, and Meyer lemon wedges and slices.

Let's start dinner with a small salad of Bibb lettuce cups, filled with sliced grape tomatoes, chopped cukes, red and yellow sweet pepper, our local creamy goat cheese crumbles, local watercress, the tzatziki sauce as dressing.

I think that I'd marinate a pork tenderloin to roast or grill, mashed sweet potatoes (made like white potatoes), zucchini and yellow summer squash sauteed in a little butter, sauteed MacIntosh apples seasoned with honey and sharp Vietnamese cinnamon, chopped pecans.

Dessert options will be lemon mousse and chocolate mint silk pie, tiny ginger cookies which have a bite.

I've read that Betty loves the music of Johnny Mercer and his contemporaries. There's NO better background music for the evening but I'm thinking of a little dancing after dinner. I'll have to choose my male guests with care!
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party_music50
11 years ago
rhizo, how do you know she's a vodka drinker? If I had to guess, I would have said Manhattans with a cherry for her. She reminds me of every Manhattan drinker I've ever known. :O)
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
11 years ago
I dug through some interviews, just to glean some basic information; she mentioned in a couple that she prefers vodka over ice, if anything. I expect that she really doesn't drink much, in reality.
gardenspice
11 years ago
I read that she's a vegan (previously vegetarian), so I probably would not serve her meat and dairy.
prairie_rose
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What was her character on the Mary Tyler Moore show? Ruth Anne? Had the cooking show at the tv station. I would google that, maybe try one of the recipes she "cooked", when her character wasn't making the moves on all the men! LOL

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