Another Birthday Dinner at Home

I am thoroughly enjoying playing hostess at home! This is the 2nd formal dinner I hosted at home this year and counting a few more birthday dinners in the next months. Unfortunately, it had to be on a Thursday so it was a fun low-key night with great people. No crazy 30th birthday drinking, just a kick-ass bottle of cabernet saugvingon- thanks to my brother-in-law!

Tonight's menu consisted of tuscan tomato basil soup for our first course and pan-seared-roasted filet mignon, maked shrimp parmesan with steamed broccolini and baked herbed potatoes for the main course. Of course, what great dinner does not have dessert?! I made varieties of flavors of french macarons as requested by the birthday girl.

In my next posts, I will detail the recipes for this scrumptious dinner. Who said busy night meals has to be bland and boring?! Not I! It was an easy-to-whip ensemble, all it took was careful planning.

Cheers!