Another night of highly anticipated MMA in this "November to Remember" means another night of the usual freeloading suspects descending on the house of jcohl for food, fun, and in tonite's case, Fedor.
I managed to grab a nap before the locusts arrived, so I was a little more sociable than I've been recently. I also got texts for food people could eat in front of the TV, instead of needing to sit at the table, so with that in mind the menu looked something like this:
Beer -
NegroModela
Corona Light
Red Stripe
Wine -
Folonari Pink Pinot Grigio
[in honor of my friend Bree, who is celebrating 6 years of beating breast cancer, and is now an activist in the Susan G Komen organization. She stopped by tonite to hit us all up for donations, so I made her hang and watch the fights before giving her a check :) ]
No specific starters or mains tonite, just small plates that people could pick at while they watched the fights, and di<ked around with my laptop and the CSI online game.
For the culinarily savvy, you'll notice everything is "wrapped" or in some other way packaged to be eaten without utensils.
Also, FYI, everything is sized to fit on small tapas plates, so no one needed to sweat flatware.
- Crab Involtini [crabmeat mixed with ricotta cheese, vodka sauce and minced pepperoncini, then placed in a ramakin and topped with a pie crust and baked]
- Salmon Wellington [salmon slathered with goat cheese and diced balsamic carmelized red and white onions, wrapped in a puff pastry, and baked]
- Philly cheesesteak eggrolls [thinly sliced flank steak tossed in a provolone chese sauce with diced onions, peppers, and mushrooms, then folded into a wonton skin and flash fried
- grilled wine-soaked portobello mushroom caps stuffed with shrimp ceviche
Dessert -
the 24 piece red velvet cupcake tower from Carolina's Cupcakery, brought by my man Pete and his gf Lesa.
Everyone enjoyed the fights, especially my buddy Shawn, who worships the ground that Fedor's sweat drips onto.
I didn't have the heart to tell him that IMO Brock Lesnar would have finished the Fedor that showed up tonite at the Sears Center in round 1 by a GnP so frightening it would give Stephen King nightmares.
;)
One of the females cracked me up when she busted out the line of the night: "hey, is this fake like wrestling? I can't believe that pudgy white dude just genked that huge brother!"
Needless to say, Roxy she ain't...
