Good recipies for a small dinner gathering?

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My suggestion is to fire up the grill and do steaks or chicken breasts.

Simple sides that you planned ahead:

A big tossed salad with different kinds of greens than old lettuce, you can use arugula, baby spinach, romaine and raddichio, etc. Fresh tomatos, carrot strips. An assortment of bottled dressings or make ONE dynamite dressing yourself.

A brie platter is always good, serve with rye crackers or half pieces of thin sliced dense rye bread, and sliced pears, and grapes in small clusters on a cutting board.

You can do a selection of chewy hearty breads and whipped butter.

An olive assortment will also be a big hit.

A big relish tray with raw veg is good. Easy! Buy that way or put it together yourself for cheap.

If not raw veggies, a SINGLE ingredient of vegetable in a nice bountiful quantity is great. I do whole green beans in the mic, while they start to steam I start a saute pan with garlic, butter, and sliced almonds, boullion or salt. Drain beans and toss in the pan just before serving. Incredible and easy.

OR just slice a bunch of carrots on a 45 deg angle, like stretched out coins...and boil them, serve with butter!

Baked potatos are always good, with as many toppers as you want to prepare. Easy.

SIMPLE foods, done well, always taste the best.

IF you want something more formal, you can do a roasted chicken. A great seasoning for chicken is rosemary, and if you grind some up or chop really really fine, it complements the mashed potatos too. The chicken is easy enough to prepare but sit down sides kind of come together at the last minute so you are cooking right up to the time you eat.

Nutella cheesecake is my fav dessert lately:
1 prepared graham crust
2 bricks of softened cream cheese
1 cup of Nutella choc-hazelnut spread
1/2 c sugar

Combine sugar, nutella and cream cheese with a hand mixer until there is a consistent color and sugar is not grainy.

Pour this into crust and set up for about 2 hours.

Can add even more nutella by marbling it in, or drizzling melted nutella on each piece just before serving. Garnish with chopped hazelnuts or a single raspberry or strawberry.

For drinks?
Wine or sangria
Beers or soda
Iced tea
Coffee with dessert...Show more

Take one vegetarian (a vegan could be subsitituted, yet regulate the salt), thinly slice and .... wait, you want a meatless pizza recipe, precise? do no longer you in straight forward terms hate those eating places the place the only vegetarian sandwich is stated as "Vegetarian Sandwich" and the vegetarian pizza is stated as "Veggy satisfaction"? i've got have been given some favorites, however the dough and the approach additionally are key. For the dough, 2 cups warm water, 2 packets of yeast; dissolve the yeast, upload particularly of flour, a million-2 tsp of salt, and approximately 6 tablespoons of greater suitable virgin olive oil; enable stand for greater or less 10 minutes. upload adequate flour and knead till it pushes back; knead for greater or less 20 minutes or use a bread device. Throw right into a rubbish bag, place someplace heat and enable it upward thrust for an hour. Punch it down and enable upward thrust for some greater hours or maybe an afternoon. ok, pizza making time. you will possibly want a pizza stone in an oven grew to become as much as 500 ranges. you will additionally want a pizza peel (vast wood spatula). Your dough ought to make approximately 3 pizzas. Roll out the dough for a pizza employing the two your hands or a rolling pin. unfold some corn meal on the peel then place the dough on the peel. unfold on olive oil, observed by way of some mozzarella cheese. Now upload some sliced roma tomatoes, observed by way of some greater cheese. Slide the pizza onto the stone and bake for greater or less 6-8 minutes. you will ought to examine after a minute to confirm there are no bubbles forming. get rid of from oven and upload some clean basil. this could be a Pizza Margherita. rather straight forward, yet tasty....Show more

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Delicious! Low-Fat Chicken Fried or Country Fried Steak

for steak
1 lb boneless eye of round beef steak (4 steaks - 4oz. each, fat trimmed)
3 tablespoons flour
2 egg whites or 1/4 cup Egg Beaters egg substitute
1/4 cup skim milk
3/4 cup dry breadcrumbs (seasoned or unseasoned your choice)
vegetable cooking spray
salt & pepper
for gravy
2 tablespoons margarine
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups skim milk or fat-free half-and-half
1/2 teaspoon beef bouillon granules
1/4 cup nonfat sour cream
salt & pepper, to taste



1. Pound the steaks to about 1/4 inch thickness. If the steaks are thicker, you will have to increase the cooking time.
2. Combine egg whites & milk.
3. Coat steaks lightly with flour.
4. Dip Floured Steaks in Egg mixture & coat with Breadcrumbs.
5. Spray both sides of steak.
6. Generously spray skillet with cooking spray & heat over medium heat until hot.
7. Cook steaks over medium heat until browned (about 5 minutes on each side).
8. Cover & cook over LOW heat until steaks are tender, 30-40 minutes, turn ocasionally.
9. Season with Salt & pepper, serve with gravy, instructions are below.
10. Melt margarine in medium saucepan.
11. Stir in Flour & cook over medium-low heat 1 minute, STIRRING CONSTANTLY.
12. Whisk in milk & beef crystals, heat to boiling.
13. Boil until thickened, about 1 minute, STIRRING CONSTANTLY.
14. Stir in Sour Cream & cook for 1-2 minutes, season with salt & pepper to your liking.

Good for four servings....Show more