New Year's Eve Dinner

For the last several years, Wonderful Hubby and I have enjoyed a New Year's Eve LUNCH at a nice restaurant.  Then we hit the local grocery store to find something we can fix together for our dinner. We've found it's a good time to reminisce and we enjoy our time together!

This year, I set a table with these cute snowflake plates I found at Target!  They are melamine!  Can you believe it?  The mercury glass dessert plates were from Target, too.  I had the silver chargers and the little snowflake-shaped plates were from Kroger.  I thought they all worked pretty well together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We started with a simple salad with parmesan crisps.  So easy!  Simply grate parmesan cheese, place piles of it on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and bake them 5-7 minutes at 350 F.  Let them cool and harden up a bit and place them on the salad.  I also made a simple balsamic vinaigrette dressing to go with this.

 

 

 

 

 

At the grocery, WH found these large shrimp that I roasted in the oven at 400 F for about 6 minutes with just a little olive oil, salt and pepper.  They were so tender and delicious, we wished we gotten a few more!!



The stars of our New Year's Eve Dinner were boneless choice ribeye steaks that Wonderful Hubby grilled to perfection!  He used a little seasoning salt and onion pepper.  Mine was the smaller one, which was a bit less rare than his.  These steaks were so tender and delicious!!! 

 

 

 

We also had some roasted asparagus sprinkled with parmesan and baked potatoes.  Our wine was a delicious Missouri Norton. 

(You can see I put the salad dressing bottle in a ramekin to save the tablecloth!  A little tacky, I know, but I didn't want to have to do laundry!)

 

 

 



 

For dessert, we had blackberry tarts with pastry cream!  

 

 

I brushed the top with some blackberry jam thinned with a little water.  It brushed on well and sweetened the berries a bit.

 

 

I guess after 25 years together, we've finally learned to cook pretty well!!  

 

Happy New Year Everyone!



Linking to these great parties:

  Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen
  Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps on the Porch
  Foodie Friday at Rattlebridge Farm