{"id":17033,"date":"2014-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeful-davinci.104-238-165-7.plesk.page\/an-italian-gathering-spicy-salted-chocolate-souffle-html\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:11:40","slug":"an-italian-gathering-spicy-salted-chocolate-souffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/2014\/11\/an-italian-gathering-spicy-salted-chocolate-souffle.html","title":{"rendered":"an Italian gathering + spicy salted chocolate souffl\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to part two of the Bertolli Gold Label Italian Progressive Dinner Party<\/a> series that I\u2019m hosting (along with Tracy<\/a>, Adrianna<\/a>, Kristen<\/a>, and Carrian<\/a>). This is the part where food comes to life around the table. I knew I wanted to have a\u00a0small, intimate get together with good friends to share the spaghetti & bison meatball\u00a0dish<\/a> I created. I wanted to have a dinner non-party, if you will. I didn\u2019t want to belabor anything. I just wanted to cook great\u00a0food, consume it, and hang out with my friends. And so I did. My friends Pap & Chuck graciously hosted me in their home and we invited a handful of close friends over to join us.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving just passed through. That time when everyone, even the self-proclaimed non-cooks, turn on their dormant ovens & everyone does that thing people (myself included) have taken to calling, generally, gathering. Dinner partying. With family or friends, we all converge around a turkey and its court of regional sides, generally pot luck style. I\u2019m so happy\u00a0there\u2019s at least one day a year where it\u2019s a given, and I\u2019m here to fight the good fight for gatherings for other reasons or no reason at all. For dinner parties. For dinner non-parties. What\u2019s a dinner non-party? It\u2019s just a dinner with people you like. It\u2019s food without fuss. While I love to make the effort to make each moment beautiful, I think it\u2019s important to remember that the most vital\u00a0thing is that the moment happen at all. Don\u2019t let dreams of Pinterest perfect gatherings keep you procrastinating. Just cook some pasta, toss a salad, and throw these spicy, salted chocolate souffl\u00e9s in the fridge to bake off at the last minute. It can be done single handedly in an afternoon. The evening after this dinner we all huddled around a fire in the backyard taking silly photos, listening to Taytay Swifties, and (at some point) someone took to ambushing people with coffee ground smeared on their face like a warrior. I don\u2019t even know. The party went on well into the wee hours (even after I\u2019d long gone to bed like an old lady), and it was everything a get together should be. It was about people, not pretense.<\/p>\n

For the Bertolli<\/a>\u00a0progressive dinner party, each of us bloggers created\u00a0one dish as part of a\u00a0complete menu of Italian goodness from antipasti down on to dessert. The recipe I brought to progressive series was the homemade spaghetti & fennel bison meatballs<\/a> I made a couple of weeks back. So that was the star of the gathering pictured here alongside a simple massaged kale & apple salad with my favorite dessert, this recipe for salted spicy chocolate souffl\u00e9 (recipe at the bottom of the post). It\u2019s the best because you can actually make it ahead and refrigerate or freeze it. \u00a0Here is the complete progressive dinner party menu:<\/p>\n

Bertolli Gold Label Italian Dinner Menu<\/strong>
\u2022 Tracy\u2019s Mushroom Polenta Bites and Anitpastai Platter<\/a>
\u2022 Kristen\u2019s Caramelized Onion Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms<\/a>
\u2022 My Homemade Spaghetti & Bison Fennel Meatballs with Porcini Truffle Sauce<\/a>
\u2022 Carrian\u2019s Balsamic and Caramelized Onion Chicken Parmesan<\/a>
\u2022 Adrianna\u2019 Persimmon Galette<\/a><\/p>\n

For more Italian inspiration, head over to Pinterest and check in with Bertolli<\/a> on Facebook<\/a> and follow #BertolliGoldLabel<\/a> to keep up with the Bertolli Gold Label Dinner Party<\/a> to see how the other bloggers\u2019 dinner parties turned out!<\/p>\n

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