After breakkie (some time after, not at 9.30am!) ... we enjoyed a jug of Bloody Mary
Once that had been polished off we fancied a nibble ... so out came various marinaded olives and some freshly roasted wasabi almonds and cashews. What better to wash those down than a Margarita.
They were so nice that we had a couple more glasses.
Rather later than planned we had our starter - a tower of grilled veggies and polenta in a pool of freshly made pepper coulis. I think we opened the Sanccere at this point.
And a freshly made saffron foccacia.
Yummy. Not too long after the starter *hic* came the main course. It was a roasted veggie lasagne from the Candle Cafe Cookbook (as was the starter). It was a lot of preparation, but really tasty.
Ah, but something was missing. In my slighly drunken state I'd forgotten to cooke the roast fennel. Ah well.
Time for another
Some time later we had our first dessert! (TCM is a dessert fiend!). Vision was starting to go by now, and forward planning was a pipe dream.
It tasted wonderful .... caremalised pineapple covered with coconut milk infused with lemongrass, cardamon seeds and lime then baked. Delish ...
.... But I'd forgotten to make the icecream. Oh well. The dessert wine will make up for that.
Then for dessert number two ... a chocolate tower filled with chocolatey coconutyness ....
..... ooops .. forgot the strawberry coulis.
So, the moral of the story ... if you're going to get drunk when doing a dinner, get absolutely blotto and ommissions will hardly be noticed.
PS - this quantity of drinking should of course be once in a while ... it aint big and it aint clever! I had a banging headache that night, but was OK (ish!) the next day
