Delicious Recipe Follow-up

Pete's and my delicious dinner wildly exceeded our expectations. It was definitely as nice as going out for dinner, and the whole affair only cost $30 (plus a bottle of wine). Plus we had the fun of attempting to cook in my tiny kitchen and accidentally dusting ourselves over with charcoal powder (Ok, maybe the charcoal powder part wasn't as fun). Details on the dinner after the jump, but be prepared for your mouth to water.

We ended up eating in courses, since everything got done at different times. However, that was fine by me, since that meant a constant stream of delicious food and wine. We started out with an array of olives and artichoke hearts (Pete's idea - nicely done, Pete). Next course was a caprese salad (Pete's idea as well, and he handcrafted the whole thing, including a balsamic vinagrette to go over it).

Following that, we munched on some asparagus that I had marinated and thrown on the grill. Sooooo easy and delicious.

We moved on to some homemade garlic bread (Dammit, Peter gets credit again).

Finally we got to the delicious grilled mushroom that I detailed in a prior post. But I was so full by this time that I could barely eat half of mine. However, the mushroom recipe turned out delightful - the mushroom was very juicy, and the fresh mozarella we used tasted delicious.

In summary, everyone should be very jealous of Pete and me because we (well, mostly Pete) cooked a delicious dinner and enjoyed an altogether lovely night on the patio.

Also, I think I used the word "delicious" about eleventy billion times in this post, but I don't care, because it was. Delicious, that is.