Today I catered a luncheon for my mother and some of her high school classmates. The menu:
Salad of romaine, rio grapefruit & sweet onion topped with fennel dressing and toasted pistachios
Lamb with red wine, fig & shallot reduction
Oven roasted herbed fingerling & red potatoes
Green beans
Onion pudding
Danish pastry
It was an easy task since my only stipulation was no seafood. You want your food to lend itself to people enjoying time spent with friends. I would call a 3 hour lunch a success.
