Dinner party for 8 - Continued

After a whole day of cooking, some presents and wonderful company, the dinner party is over. Had excellent Chicken Bryan with pasta salad with walnuts and Gorgonzola cheese, stuffed tomatoes as an appetizer and sugar cream pie for dessert. Everyone loved it!

Now, getting ready for the next big event with friends

Dinner party for 8

I woke up bright and early (9am) to get all my ingredients together. I still had to go get the chicken and the tomatoes, the salad greens and a little bit more cheese. So after my shower, I head on over to Publix, quickly run the aisles that I need, pay and i'm out. Get home and start getting ready. I want to have most of it done before 6:00pm, that way is not all coming to me at once.

I get started on the dessert and the pasta, the dessert needs to be baked so it only makes sense to make first, plus, you want to give it time to cool off. No one likes warm dessert, or do they? Pasta is ready and the dessert is ready to be put in the oven. Being the multi-tasking queen that I am, i start to drain the pasta, and pour the dessert into the pie shell. No, not at once, I needed two hands for the pasta and two for the dessert, the pasta came first.

Put the pie in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Easy. Mix the pasta with the greens and chop walnuts and get the Gorgonzola cheese ready. This is an easy salad. after all, I only need to mix pasta and green, the rest are optional toppings for my guests. Mix the salad dressing and we're good to go. Oil and vinegar, also simple.

Get started on the aioli, mix all the ingredients together until smooth and thick. Gut the tomatoes, chop the olives and the capers and mix with the aioli. Once the tomaotes are hollow, fill with the aioli, caper and olive mix.

The joys of preparing ahead...it is only 1:18pm and I am way ahead of the game. Only need to cook the chicken and hello Dinner Party for 8