Good dinner. :-) Kevin,…

Good dinner. :-) Kevin, me, Kev's dad, my sister, Farah from England, Nnedi (who also knows Farah), Beth. Lovely group. Of course everyone had to go earlyish, since it's a Tuesday night, but still had a lovely time while they were all here. And the food came out almost perfectly, except for the bacon-wrapped dates, which we managed to burn. Ah well. They were fairly redundant anyway.

Menu:

• mango-chili-chicken wontons (once again, a hit)
• prosciutto-wrapped canteloupe
• bacon-wrapped dates (luckily, my sister likes burnt food, and ate several of them)

• roasted beets with goat cheese and toasted walnuts over baby spinach

• grilled shrimp (marinated in chopped garlic, ginger, Sri Lankan curry powder, cayenne, salt and pepper, vegetable oil)
• grilled three-pepper (Tellicherry black, green, and pink) steak
• grilled asparagus
• grilled radicchio (are you sensing a theme? :-)
• saffron basmati rice

• lemon and mango sorbet (definitely not homemade) with fresh blueberries

Most astonishingly, it turned out that Kevin cooked more than half of the meal this time around. I have to remember to put grilled stuff on the menu more often. And salads. :-)