woo party!

Epic cooking day yesterday for a dinner party. Many salads and desserts and sides (although I ordered catering for the meat products, I will be honest there). Here are a couple pictures of desserts, for which I cannot claim recipe credit, but they were delicious and go over quite well:

Raw Key Lime Pie (from the Cafe Gratitude Cookbook – asking what the secret ingredient is and seeing if people can guess is a great party trick…)

Raw Strawberry Shortcake (also from Cafe Gratitude):

 

Also included (recipes to follow) was some citrus asparagus salad, a mushroom-garlic-wild rice pilaf and my favorite cashew butter salad (which I keep forgetting to post despite multiple requests for the recipe). It was basically a me/Northwest spin on smorgasbord (yes, there was salmon, never fear), so it it was pretty stress-free to serve (although for a while I was worried I wouldn’t finish making everything with time to set the table!)

Anyway, look for more recipes in coming days. That would be a very long post to include them all here…