1st Anniversary Dinner

We celebrated a year of marriage together.
Here is what we ate.

• Cake: Layered dacquoise, chocolate / toasted almond genoise, chocolate Italian buttercream, and coconut cream ganache.  Plus pandan macarons.

We decided to start the day with the cake I made for the wedding, so I could plan another dessert if it no longer tasted good.

The verdict?  Thanks to my Mom's amazing wrapping skills, the cake had no trace of defective aroma, and it may have tasted even better than at the wedding!

• Aperitif: Roy Classique (Cachaça, Borenjongens Liqueur, a shake of Angostora bitters, and Borenjongens as garnish)

We made the Borenjongens (basically golden raisins soaked in Courvoisier with a little sugar and cinnamon) a few months before our wedding last year.  They have been getting better and better sitting over the past year, and made for an outstanding cocktail which we will definitely be revisiting in the future.


You can see our prep list under the cocktail.

• Crustacean Course: Chili-marinated wild prawns in garden collard slaw with saffron vinaigrette

• Bivalve Course: Scallops served with negimiso brown rice

• Fish Course: Wahoo with garden beet and potato gnocchi, beans, baby eggplant, and candied tomato in red curry pesto

• Wine: Ken Wright's 2010 Pinot Blanc (an excellent pairing)
• Cheese: Reichert's Dairy Air washed rind cheese: Robiolina di Reba

So, that's the gist of our main meal, though we had many other wonderful snackies and wines (including a bottle of the 1988 Domaine Michel Cab Sauv we got for the wedding).

Forthcoming: what I haven't posted for the past year and a half.