Breakfast for Dinner Party

Jar and I recently celebrated the successful completion of his general exams (known as qualifying exams at normal schools) by throwing a breakfast for dinner party. As you can tell from the first post on this blog, Jar and I love breakfast and we particularly love pancakes. Since I spend the weekends perfecting my pancake craft, I thought there would be no better way to celebrate than sharing these delicious breakfast treats.

I found a recipe for this "Pumpkin French Toast Brulee"in a local New Jersey newspaper. I was quite hesitant to try "newspaper food," but by all accounts it turned out delicious. I will not even attempt to post a recipe here, in case anyone who ate it is reading. Let's just say that both whole milk and cream were involved. Oh, and 8 or so eggs...


As previously mentioned, pancakes were also served. Here I am working at my craft. Special thanks to Eliza for buying us that wonderful griddle for our wedding. It has tremendously improved my pancake-making ability.


Everyone claimed to love the pancakes. Three varieties were on the menu: chocolate chip, banana chocolate chip, and blueberry. All were made with buttermilk. Luckily for me everyone was pretty much stuffed by the time the blueberry ones were finished, so I indulged in quite a few.

We also served up some delicious "spicy home fries" from our favorite Bengali cookbook. I had planned on offering eggs to order as well as waffles, but the amount of food was already as much as many could handle.

The drink of the night was coffee, mostly Irish. We recently discovered St. Brennan's Irish Cream but had some Godiva stuff as well thanks to Kelsey. Tony did a little research on real "Irish coffee" and brought a bottle of real Irish whiskey.

It was a fun night and hopefully we can do it again in the near future. Congratulations to the Jar for remaining gainfully employed!