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July 27, 2006
CR Dinner with New York Magazine!
I am starting to think that I really like journalists. Or maybe it's just the specific kind of journalists who have done stories on CR lately. We always seem to have the best time at these little dinner parties, and Tuesday night was no exception.
Julian the reporter and Adam the editor joined me and MR, Meredith and Paul, and Don for a CR'd feast. Julian has been experimenting with CR himself, so we actually had 6 CR'd folk in one place at once! It was almost a conference!
More on the dinner conversation later, but here's what I served:
Arugula salad topped with scallops cooked in white wine with garlic and cilantro and a squeeze of the juice of a fresh lemon
Quorn tenders cooked in water for MR and a spalsh of white wine for the others with asparagus, shiitake mushrooms and artichoke hearts with a teaspoon of olive oil added after removing from heat, also topped with tiny lemon juice squeeze
Strawberry parfait with fat free ricotta, organic hazelnuts, organic strawberries, and flax oil
Pinot noir
The total calories (with three ounces of pinot noir -- the non-MR among us were allowed to drink more than a three ounce pour, which would add some calories) for the men was 639, 30% fat, 30% protein, 40% carb. I was the only female eating (Meredith and Paul are doing two meal a day these days, and had already eaten) and I cut the dishes roughly in half for myself. The food turned out very well. Julian the reporter had saved up way too many calories for the meal (I should have asked him in advance how much he'd like to eat) so I made him a second strawberry parfait. Meredith and Paul drank tea and chatted. Adam did the dishes, which really impressed me because I dread the dishes at the end of a long dinner party. We used the office of one of his friends who has a test kitchen of some kind, and it was a great set up, including a dining room with a long glass table with interesting art work on all sides.
I'll post the grams later on today... it takes awhile to convert the DWIDP file numbers to useable recipe numbers, as anyone who has used the clunky old program can tell you. Off to work!
Posted by april at July 27, 2006 5:58 AM
Comments
As usual, you created what sounds like a delicious & elegant meal for everyone. Awesome! Any idea when the article is going to appear? Will there be photos of the famous CR duo? Is this a publication we could pick up at a magazine stand? BTW, I've been buying organic strawberries recently and notice that unlike the regular ones, they don't go mouldy after a couple of days but rather simply start to dry out. Much more appetizing! JD :-)
Posted by: Judith at July 27, 2006 9:19 AM
JD -- I'm so happy to hear about the strawberries. I haven't made the effort to buy organic, although I could but it's a schlep, but I just threw away almost a whole box because they became moldy. It was a waste. Rachella
Posted by: Rachella at July 29, 2006 7:14 AM