/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Maybe go for a beef bourguignon with some mashed potatoes, and a nice bottle of wine. Or you could go for some nice lamb shanks, peking duck, maybe some baked snapper, grilled mahi mahi, swordfish, prime rib, maybe a rabbit dish, or wild game, or maybe a traditional dish from your family. If you’re going to have bread, bake it yourself and serve it with high quality olive oil and herb butter. Maybe try cajun shrimp (the kind with that creamy sauce, like picrel) as an appetizer. Really, there’s a million things you could do. It just depends on what you’d like to make.

Anyways, people seem to love creme brulee. Especially if you torch it in front of them. Use whatever recipe you like, I typically go for 5 egg yolks, 2 cups of heavy cream, half a cup of sugar, and 1 vanilla bean. Once you use the vanilla bean, dry it out and put it in a container with sugar. Use the vanilla sugar to coat the top & create the hard caramel layer.

You can make creme brulee the night before which is why it’s good. Cheesecake is the same. Definitely test run everything once before the final run, just in case.