Holiday Open House

Instead of our regular "Dinner on 12th" this month, we had our annual holiday open house last night. Many of our attendees from previous "Dinner on 12ths" were there and others that we hope will be able to join us at our table for future dinners. It was a lovely evening of food and merriment. It's wonderful and inspiring that at such a busy time of the year, people will take time out of their schedules to share some joy with friends. Thank you to all who came. And also, thank you to all who brought food for the Oregon Food Bank and for the Oregon Humane Society. We will be dropping off those donations this week.

Since food is one of the main themes of this blog, I thought I would share the menu for the open house...

Truffled baby potatoes
Smoked salmon and fried caper canapes
Raspberry-red pepper jam bites
Edamame hummus with veggies
Sundried tomato crostada
Curried cashews
Roasted garlic and onion jam bruschetta
Triple cream crostini topped with fried sage
Roasted vegetable and goat cheese empanadas
Tomato and sweet onion chutney canapes
Caramel apple shortbread tart
Gingersnap truffles
Caramel Brownie bombs (Debbie Orlando's incredible secret dessert!)
Coconut and white chocolate cookies
Oatmeal Caramelitas

Happy holidays to all and may this new year bring with it peace and joy for all around the world.

Peace,
Jenna and Jason