Asian
Inspired Appetizer Party
We travel throughout the world, looking for new recipes and wines for
our cookbooks and magazine articles. There isnt any place we go
that has the exciting food choices of the San Francisco Bay Area. We
are truly a food melting pot. The various Asian cuisines
have enriched the food choices here tremendously. Choose from these
Asian inspired appetizers for a substantial appetizer party or "meal
by the bite." Please check terms
for costs.
TO BE PASSED
Thai
salad cones: rice paper cones filled with butter lettuce, tamarind sauce,seven
"magic" ingredients, garnished with enoke mushrooms
Ginger pickled salmon on cucumbers drizzled with wasabi creme fraiche
and topped with tobiko Chinese sausage, bok choy and hoisin "pizzas"
Thai fishcakes with mango sambal
East Indian spiced chicken crescents
Shiitake mushroom cakes dabbed with Chinese black bean aioli
FROM THE BUFFET
Boneless bites of duck in orange and walnut sauce served
hot from a chafing dish with finger rolls
Five spice braised brisket of beef, sliced and served with rolls and
Szechwan peppercorn mayonnaise
Seasonal vegetable basket with peanut cilantro dip
Cloudear mushroom salsa with assorted wonton and vegetable chips
Seaswirls with ginger garlic dip: nori filled with a puree of chicken
and miso, rolled, steamed and sliced into black spiraled rounds
Marinated mussels on the half shell