INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

Bagna Cauda Smoked Salmon Timballi Mussels with Saffron-Tomato Mayonnaise
Shrimp, White Beans and Tarragon Bacon-Rosemary Roasted Capon Cotechino,
Lentils and Broccoli Rabe Wild-Mushroom Lasagna Roasted Vegetables Pear and
Almond Crostata with Bittersweet Chocolate Sauce
Cook's Countdown: ** December 30: ** Make Wild Mushroom Lasagna components
and refrigerate or assemble-bake-cool-and-refrigerate. Cut, marinate and
refrigerate vegetables for Roasted Vegetables or prepare vegetables through
Step 3 and r4efrigerate. Prepare and roll out Crostata crust; fit into tart
pan; wrap and refrigerate. ** December 31 ** ** Early in the Day ** Prepare
Timballi; wrap and refrigerate. Prepare components for Shrimp and White
Beans; wrap and refrigerate. Prepare Musels; wrap and refrigerate. Prepare
Bagna Cauda vegetables; wrap and refrigerate. Make bouquet garni and trim
broccoli rabe for Cotechnio; wrap and refrigerate. Set and decorate table.
Get out all equipment needed. ** Four hours before serving ** Start Capon.
Complete and bake Pear and Almond Crostata; cool and store at room
temperature. ** Two hours before serving ** Assemble and bake Wild Mushroom
Lasagna or place prebaked lasagna in oven to reheat. ** One hour before
serving ** Start dipping sauce of Bagna Cauda. Cook Cotechino with Lentils
and Broccoli Rabe. ** Thirty minutes before serving ** Complete Shrimp,
White Bean and Tarragon. Arrange seafood appetizers. Put out bread sticks.
** Twenty minutes before serving ** Start Bittersweet Chocolate Sauce; sift
confectioners' sugar over Crostata. Remove Bacon-Rosemary Roasted Capon
from oven; prepare sauce. Complete roasting vegetables. ** Just before
serving main course ** Serve seafood appetizers and Bagna Cauda. Arrange
main course on buffet table. Set up expresso of coffee make so it will be
ready to be turned on later. ** Enjoy the party and Happy New Year! **
Country Living January 1998, page 95.
Recipe by: Alan Tardi and Karen Bussen, Follonico, NYC.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #970 by Peg Baldassari
<Baldassari@compuserve.com> on Dec 22, 1997

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