We've now officially cooked through half of Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull and we've only had three dinners so far -- the first one at Loly's, the second at Tom's and this last one at Dana and Oliver's. The dinners have all been a lot of fun and I'm really grateful that my friend Chris Damcke came up with idea. Thank you Chris!
Last weekend's dinner at Dana and Oliver's was the lightest of them all in terms of what we ate/drank but that's pretty absurd because we all consumed so much that we felt super sleepy at 9pm on a Saturday night. So much good food.
The next Toro book dinner will be at my house later in the summer once my kitchen is remodeled. I'm really looking forward to having a fire in the backyard for that one and putting my new gas Dynasty range to good use for it. Yes! I'm also looking forward to doing this cook the book thing with the next book when the time comes too -- the Tasty Brunch Book that John and I are working on now. I see a lot of day drinking in our future.
Here's what we cooked and ate from the book this time around. Really tasty as always.
Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull. dinner party menu
Casa Rita White Wine Sangria (with plum wine) Halibut Cheeks Grilled Corn with Cilantro Pesto Sauteed Spinach with Pine Nuts and Golden Raisins Hazelnut Ice Cream (with strawberry rhubarb compote) Olive Oil Cake (with balsamic vinegar reduction) Hand-Cut Noodles with Pimenton Dulce Moorish Meatballs
Future Toro grilled corn and sauteed halibut cheeks...
Sara has nice cheeks! Toro's Halibut Cheeks with oil-cured Calabrian chiles and marinated olives.
My Toro Grilled Corn with Cilantro Pesto.
Loly and Faulkner's Hand-cut Noodles with Pimenton Dulce.
They also made this gluten-free version.
Alec and Sarah's Moorish Meatballs.
So much good food...
Dana and Oliver's Sauteed Spinach with Pine Nuts and Golden Raisins and mugolio that they bought at Pastaworks.
Chris's Toro Olive Oil Cake.
Loly, Sarah and Emily dishing it up.
Sarah and Alec's Hazelnut Ice Cream with a balsamic reduction.
Strawberry Rhubarb compote.
Chris and Boscoe mid-meal stretching.
All together now.
Every dog has its day. Thank you Boscoe for the great dinner party.