Got home from the catering job in Portland last night - what a wonderful time and birthday I had!! Don, our host, couldn't join us for my birthday dinner - at his houseboat
- so Roy and I had to have sushi, champagne, T-bones, grilled fries, fruit platter and more Shramsburg Cremant bubbly with just the two of us!
![[Image: mybday.jpg]](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/cjdacook/mybday.jpg)
The Dinner Thursday night went very well also - have some new recipes for catering (and home) now. The brats were delicious and I'll fix them this way again.
6 pack Samuel Adams dark beer
3 oz. bavarian mustard
1/3 cup ketchup
lots of onion slices.
Mix all the above together and drop in the brats, I had the heat at med-lo and just let them do their thing for a couple of hours, then grilled for color. They caramalized and were just beautiful and so good. The guys liked the red cabbage sauerkraut also. And the pickled eggs - they were all gone!
Started out with a cheese board - oh the cheeses were so good!!
![[Image: cheeseboard.jpg]](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/cjdacook/CATERING/cheeseboard.jpg)
The two hors that they like the best were the mini zucc quiches with tomato sauce and the crab 'nachos' - they really went thru these two. In the picture, I left the crab off one for the pix so you could see the guacamole.
![[Image: crabnachos.jpg]](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/cjdacook/CATERING/crabnachos.jpg)
The Roasted Red peppers, feta and green olive 'tapenade' just didn't go over with the group, but Don, Roy and I sure liked it!
The Northwest Blackberry(with blue-, rasp-, straw-) cobbler was a great choice for the guys with French Vanilla Ice cream. All in all it was a good job and it was nice to see the guys Roy used to work with again, they're such a great group.
So, now I'm off to read all that I've missed the last 4 days in the neighborhood - and, I apologize ahead of time for having a string of 'cjs' responses, but I'll try to hold my tongue!!
It's good to be home!

![[Image: mybday.jpg]](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/cjdacook/mybday.jpg)
The Dinner Thursday night went very well also - have some new recipes for catering (and home) now. The brats were delicious and I'll fix them this way again.
6 pack Samuel Adams dark beer
3 oz. bavarian mustard
1/3 cup ketchup
lots of onion slices.
Mix all the above together and drop in the brats, I had the heat at med-lo and just let them do their thing for a couple of hours, then grilled for color. They caramalized and were just beautiful and so good. The guys liked the red cabbage sauerkraut also. And the pickled eggs - they were all gone!
Started out with a cheese board - oh the cheeses were so good!!
![[Image: cheeseboard.jpg]](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/cjdacook/CATERING/cheeseboard.jpg)
The two hors that they like the best were the mini zucc quiches with tomato sauce and the crab 'nachos' - they really went thru these two. In the picture, I left the crab off one for the pix so you could see the guacamole.
![[Image: crabnachos.jpg]](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/cjdacook/CATERING/crabnachos.jpg)
The Roasted Red peppers, feta and green olive 'tapenade' just didn't go over with the group, but Don, Roy and I sure liked it!
The Northwest Blackberry(with blue-, rasp-, straw-) cobbler was a great choice for the guys with French Vanilla Ice cream. All in all it was a good job and it was nice to see the guys Roy used to work with again, they're such a great group.
So, now I'm off to read all that I've missed the last 4 days in the neighborhood - and, I apologize ahead of time for having a string of 'cjs' responses, but I'll try to hold my tongue!!

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