Dining Together

Date: Tuesday Night August 23, 2005
Dinners: Cliff / Cathy / Parsifal / Polenta

Wine: Provided by Cliff / Cathy
2003 Sur Lie: Muscadet Sevre & Maine


We dined alone with our cats: Polenta and Parsifal. We planned our dinner around a Paella dish from the Moro Cookbook. We have dinned at Moro in London several times. It is a Moroccan / Spanish restaurant started by some ex-employees of The River Café.

For the first course we had a Sugar Queen melon from the Hollywood Farmers Market. We had covered the melon with Prosciutto from The Cheese Store of Silverlake. It was a great starter course.


Cathy had re-invented the Monkfish with Saffron Paella, leaving out the monkfish, and adding in, Scallops, White Shrimp, Pink Shrimp, Clams and Mussels from Whole Foods in Glendale. The dish was excellent. We look forward to leftovers.

The Muscadet wine, from the Silverlake Wine Store, went perfectly with the seafood paella.

For dessert we had coconut ice cream with fresh wild strawberries. Cliff enhanced his desert with a topping of Grand Marnier. Cathy had her dessert without the liquor topping! They don’t look like regular ones, far smaller and very tasty. They are called: 'Fraise des bois' which means strawberries of the woods.

It was a great summer dinner!