Showing posts with label south american. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south american. Show all posts

Saturday, October 18, 2008

South American dinner


So we just had probably one of our best menu's to date at a Moroccan Hound, and to commemorate it I am posting with the links to some of those recipes. I am always so amazed at how it comes together, as almost no one chooses what they'll make until the day of and I am stressing that we'll have 5 desserts and no main dish or something equally disproportionate. So the theme was a very general one, South American cuisine, and the menu:
Lily on the ceviche (ack, i do not have her recipe, but it had avocado and tilapia, yum)
Kate with a large chicken-chorizo empanada which was zomg delish.

I made fried macha bananas and chili-rubbed pork tenderloin (not really a south american recipe but i figure the chili powder made it count)

I didn't use a recipe, i just fried chunks of the bananas in butter and sprinkled cinnamon & brown sugar over them liberally.


I seared the pork on the stove first, as the recipe said, and then baked it (400 degrees, 16-18 minutes), perfect pinkness, perfect.
Tark, our brownie lady, made black bean brownies (only person to have ever made me eat black beans). Don't worry, there is no taste of bean-i-ness, it just adds to the texture.
and most importantly: Alex and Laila with mojitos
Also, Marzouk brought sugarcane and I have never had that before, really interesting.
All around, very delicious and all the recipes are worthwhile.