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This is a group of 13 friends and neighbors that get together once a month to enjoy good food and share recipes. Each month a different girl hosts and does all the cooking. Every few months we have a "couples night" which means we get to bring our husbands and two girls work together to host the increased crowd. By the years end, each of us has only had to cook one great meal and in exchange you get to enjoy 9 others!


Showing posts with label couples night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label couples night. Show all posts

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Staci & Rachel's fish taco night



Watermelon-Feta salad

Coconut rice:  2 C jasmine rice, 3 C. Coconut milk, 1 can red kidney beans 

fish tacos


Staci used parmesan instead of Cojita cheese and sprinkled tajin seasoning on after with the cheese and more cilantro to garnish.




Staci used mango instead of Pineapple in the fruit salsa recipe below



The OG Lemon Dessert recipe but Rachel prefers the one below that doesn't have raw eggs.














Monday, May 19, 2025

Michelle & Nora's Greek night

Greek yogurt (from Walmart) with fruit, nuts, and honey



Greek Salad. https://www.mygreekdish.com/recipe/greek-feta-salad/

using this feta from Smiths




Pastitsio- I tripled the cheese in the bechamel

Portokalopita orange cake

Galaktoboureko custard cake



Tzatziki.  I doubled the cucumber but really squeezed the water out.  Also upped the garlic and olive oil.

Oven Steak Fries.  Instead of rosemary and garlic, I added feta on top after cooking and squeezed lemon juice on top.









Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Couples Football Game night

Cinnamon Sugar coated almonds

White Cheese Dip



Rachel buys the meat (pictured below) at Costco in the freezer section.  One box has 3 packages and should feed 10 adults.  Spread meat out on a cookie sheet with seasonings to come to room temperature before you sear it.  Chop your veggies very tiny.  Can transfer to a crockpot to keep warm.  A large crockpot will fit 2x this recipe.






Saturday, August 24, 2024

Pizza Oven couples night at Lindsay's

 

Dough Recipe





Arugula Salad
Grapes
Goat Cheese
shaved Almonds
Dressing: about 1.5C olive oil, 3/4 C lemon Juice, Salt & Pepper, 4 TBSP honey


Blackberry Pizza
Marinara, then add cheese, blackberries, prosciutto, basil and olive oil 









Thursday, June 27, 2024

Michelle T and Brittany's couples night

 

I used hibiscus herbal tea packets from Harmons.  I made a hibiscus syrup and a simple syrup and mix with fresh lemon juice to taste.




Classic Bruschetta  Brittany changed this up a little by adding 3 types of Basil (Italian, spicy globe, and the normal variety)


I used a sirloin cut for the steak.  Make sure to marinate the mushrooms too!

Liz’s Bistro Salad



This salad was crazy simple and yummy!  I chopped everything up before hand and added the dressing right before serving.  The onions are super easy to pickle, but they are available in store too!

LEMONY CHICKPEA FETA SALAD

It works well to combine the beans, dressing and onion before to let them marinate.  Add the parley and feta right before serving.  If you are planning on leftovers, I would spoon the feta on individual plates.  The feta gets kind of mushy after sitting in the marinade for a bit.

Sourdough Focaccia

The directions on this recipe are annoying.  I've weighed the flour, measured the flour, and I still end of with a VERY loose dough.  I usually end up adding at least a cup of flour, so don't worry if you need to add more.  The dough is still too loose to kneed so I just do it with the mixier.  
I've made it serval times and here is my order: 
1- wake up my starter either the night before or day before
2-make the dough, no need to wait to add the salt (do 1/2 the salt amount as recipe indicates) just have your mixer kneed it.
3-let rise 5-6 hours or overnight
4-put in pan with olive oil, let rise, top with flake salt found at world market or Harmons and Italian seasoning
5- bake (it only took 20 minutes in my convection oven)
6. top with olive oil. It's always yummier when I am generous with the olive oil.



I doubled the amount of blackberries.  It uses an crazy amount of lemon zest, so make some lemonade too!  One large lemon equals about a one tablespoon of zest.  I just made the cake again and added less powdered sugar to the icing and omitted the milk.  I liked that it was less sweet.  I just used lavender from the neighbors.  Culinary lavender is harvested before it blooms.  Mine were already blooming, but I think it worked just as well.


Monday, October 30, 2023

Amy & Brittany host couples Breakfast

 Appetizer:

Spanish Tortilla Recipe (Tortilla de Patates)

Served with Aioli

Ebelskivers with lemon curd and berries


For the Lemon Curd:

  • 3/4 cup fresh lemon juice (4-6 lemons)
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cubed

Bring an inch of water in a large saucepan to a simmer. In a bowl that fits on the saucepan but does not touch the simmering water, whisk together the lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar and eggs. Whisk constantly until the mixture thickens and coats the back of a spoon (this can take between 10 and 30 minutes). Add the butter, one cube at a time, stirring until it has melted before adding the next. Once all the butter has been added, place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to cool slightly and set up.



Main:


Carmelized French Toast (I omitted the extra sugar in the recipe, and used raw turbino sugar crystals to coat the slices -but granulated sugar works too).   One recipe will make about 10 slices.  I bought the challah bread from Harmons (they even sell challah with sugar on top which is great!).  I cooked the toast at 350’ on my griddle.  Use tongs to flip the slices rather than a spatula, it works a little better.  Also be sure to let those slices soak for a pretty significant amount of time!


Homemade Carmel Syrup

1 C Buttermilk
2 Cubes Butter
2 Cups Sugar
1 tsp. Soda
2 Tbsp. Karo Syrup
Boil this for 5 min stirring occasionally. This will expand so use a very large soup or stock pot.
Then add-
2 tsp vanilla

I keep this in a jar in the fridge. It hardens, but you just pop it in the microwave for a minute or two (stir in between if needed).



Banana Brûlée 



Afghanistan Tomato Egg dish:   Coat the bottom of a large frying pan with 3/4C  olive oil heated at med.  Add 4 large chopped tomatoes.  Salt the tomatoes then simmer on med low with lid.  After a couple minutes, mash the tomatoes (can add some tomato sauce if needed) and add 1 tsp cayenne pepper, 1 Tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp Tumeric powder, 1tsp salt, 1 tsp Cumin, 1 tsp chili flakes, 1 tsp of onion powder, dash of allspice, 2 cloves of garlic minced.  If the mixture is too thick, you can add a little water.  Put the lid back on and let it simmer some more.  Add the juice and pulp of 2 small limes, and some pepper.  Turn up heat to med-high and add the eggs (12), then salt, pepper, paprika then replace lid and let cook.  Then scrape/lift the eggs off the bottom of the pan, then gently lift and flip them.  Place lid on top and cook more until desired doneness of the yolk.  Serve immediately.


*Serve with bread 



Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict  you can make the hollandaise as directed in the recipe or an easier way below!


Homemade English muffins 


Hollandaise Sauce:
3 egg yolks
¼ tsp Dijon
¼ tsp salt
1 Tbsp Lemon juice
Dash of cayenne pepper
Dash of paprika
Blend all ingredients for about 5 seconds in a blender

Melt ½ C. butter in a glass measuring cup in the microwave (watch that it melts all the way but doesn’t explode). Turn blender on high and slowlypour in the butter (just a very small and steady stream). The butter still needs to be very hot when you add it so as to slightly cook the egg. Serve immediately. To keep it warm you can place the container of Hollandaise in a pot with hot water in it. Unfortunately Hollandaise sauce cannot be saved and reheated, it separates.




Dessert:


Sweet rolls

 cranberry orange filling

With this roll recipe



Passion Fruit tart   (for the mini tarts, I rolled out the dough and cut it with a flower shaped circle cookie cutter, poke with fork tines, then gently press them down into muffin tins.  Cook at 400 for 10-12 min.)


Passion fruit mousse (this is another fun recipe you might want to try with passion fruit pulp)



Buy your frozen passion fruit pulp (pictured here) from Rancho Mexican Market (in clearfield or SLC), you can also get frozen passion fruit seeds from Rancho.  The seeds are needed to spoon over top (or you could use pomegranate arils)