A Weekend of Eating - Right (Part 2)
On to part two (2). After that fabulous lunch we stopped by Coastal Seafoods to pick out our dinner. Coastal Seafoods is a local seafood market with just three locations (Minneapolis, St. Paul and Wayzata). Their quality is by far the best in the city and some of the best restaurants around stop in there daily for their fish and seafood. That day, the fishmonger recommended the blue marlin, and not one to argue, we picked up four good sized pieces to grill with some herb butter.
But before we could even think about dinner, we invited some more friends over for some drinks and appetizers. We served a ginger lemonade, which is easy and, honestly, to die for, wine and beer, as well as horseradish deviled eggs and a tomato bruschetta with rosemary. The eggs had just enough horseradish to taste, and to make people wonder what was different about these eggs. The picture below shows how quickly they were being consumed. The platter was a gift from my great Aunt Ann, who received it from her sister-in-law, my grandmother. It's that white milk glass with gold trim, and I don't think I could ever serve deviled eggs on anything else but this.
The bruschetta was fresh, and tasty with big slices of mozzerella and perfectly grilled bread (thanks, honey). Mother-in-law made this and found the recipe in Star Tribune. (I'm not able to find it online, email me if you want it).
And finally, with our stomach's already bursting we moved onto dinner. While Husband grilled the fish to perfection, the rest of us compiled the other dishes. I made a roasted pepper bread salad (from Food & Wine), and MIL whipped up a beautiful salad of mixed greens, strawberries and avocado. (Avocado in anything is an great.)
Dessert was also simple, although we really had to squeeze it in. Just some bananas stuffed with chocolate and grilled, served with homemade vanilla ice cream. (The recipe is from T, of T&B and a previous post.)
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