Craig and I had to work on New Year's Eve, and I had to drive home in a pretty good snowstorm, so we wanted a dinner that was nice, without being a lot of work.
I indulged in the salad bar at WF, getting some sort of Provencal chicken salad, with olives and cherry tomatoes. We put that on top of mixed greens for a filling salad. For our main course, we got raviolis and sauce at a local place I'd never been to before. They sell frozen pasta dinners that are made right in the back of the shop. I chose spinach raviolis and butternut squash raviolis, and a vodka sauce. The sauce was really really good, not too heavy, and we were both impressed by the raviolis, particularly the squash, which were seasoned with nutmeg. To drink we had what Craig's wine club calls "the ultimate food wine," Tamarack Cellars Firehouse Red Columbia Valley 2006. I liked it and did think it went well with the food, but didn't enjoy it as much after we finished dinner, maybe because it was no longer with food?
For dessert, garnets in blood, from the Cafe Pasqual cookbook, just pomegranate seeds, Riojas wine, and a little sugar. You wouldn't want a huge bowl, but a little bit is a really nice treat.
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