Today was Valentine’s Day. We spent the day browsing through little towns in the Charlotte area – Davidson, Cornelius, Concord, Belmont - looking for antique shops. Unfortunately, most were closed on Sunday, except for a lovely little shop in Belmont. When we got tired of antiquing, we went to Ross Dress For Less. But we had the most wonderful Valentine’s Day dinner.
We started with shrimp with Cava, a first course without compare (unless we had Wellfleet oysters, which unfortunately, we didn’t have…..
We then followed the first course with
FILET MIGNON WITH MULTI-ETHNIC SAUCE AND SMOKED BLUE CHEESE,
LOBSTER AND CHIVE WHIPPED POTATOES
Eric prepared a sauce from 1 cup Cabernet Sauvignon, 4 Tbsp. lingonberry preserves (from Ikea), whole cherries, and garam masala. The sauce was simmered until reduced by half. The filet mignon was broiled until medium rare. Over the sauce we crumbled some smoked Blue Cheese from Dean and Deluca (any rich smooth Blue will do).
The meal was accompanied by lobster-whipped potatoes, using a chopped lobster tail, butter and chives in mashed potatoes that Sherry prepared. Awsum!
Dessert was a Raspberry-infused Chocolate bar.
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Two things:
ReplyDelete1) Awsum?
2) I love how you describe this incredibly sophisticated, intricate and multicultural meal and desert is... a chocolate bar. Haha
3)This sounds amazing, by the way.
hillary, at least it was RASPBERRY-INFUSED.
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