Dinner and Drinks

Post-meal Amuse-Bouche

• Homemade yogurt, Maytag blue cheese, sweet corn

Cucumber Hors d'Oeuvres
Not the best of all appetizers--it was just a touch too sweet and missing something, although I'm not sure what.

The crackers were wonderful, though. I used the King Arthur Whole Grain Baking crackerbread recipe for them, with poppy seeds, black sesame seeds, sweet basil seeds, and sumac.

• Yogurt mixed with plum sauce, cucumber, cholula
• Crackers: various flours, olive oil, water, poppy seeds, black sesame seeds, sweet basil seeds, and sumac

Hummus and Homemade Crackers
Definitely the better appetizer of the two, this hummus was very tasty.

• Chickpeas, garlic, tahini, lemon juice, water, sumac, blackening spice, curry powder
• Crackers: various flours, olive oil, water, poppy seeds, black sesame seeds, sweet basil seeds, and sumac

Pomegranate Old Fashioned
I replaced the sugar in an old fashioned with pomegranate molasses. Very repeatable.

• Pomegranate molasses, bitters, orange, cherries, Maker's Mark

Potatoes and Strip Steak
I'm not totally sure what all Jeremy put in here, but it was quite nice. The beans and potatoes are fresh from our friend's garden.

• Strip trim, potatoes, sweet corn, salsa verde, ...?

Sumac Sweet Corn
Sweet corn and sumac are good together.

• Sweet corn, sumac, lime