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1999

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Simpler menus, 1999

 

Dinner with Jawad, Summer 1999
Molasses-glazed, peanut-crusted grilled shrimp with Napa cabbage & sesame vinaigrette
Grilled Spice-rubbed tuna with pineapple glaze
Coconut rice

Dinner for Laverne, September 1999
Sweet Corn Soup
Caesar Salad
Halibut with Proscuitto
Blue Lake Beans
Potato Gratin (with stock)

Dinner at home
Caesar Salad
Fresh Garlic Toasts
Winter Vegetable Soup

Dinner at home
Green Salad with balsamic vinaigrette
Lucca cheese and spinich ravioli with roasted red pepper coulis
Sautee'd mushrooms

Dinner at home
Caesar Salad
Salmon with red wine butter
Risotto with snap peas, sweet white corn, lobster mushrooms, and Parrano cheese

Dinner at home
Salmon baked with anchovy butter
Potato 'risotto' with shiitake mushrooms browned in butter
Dry sautee'd Blue Lake beans