Spontaneous dinner party is excited but could lead to a couple of mistakes.
The second mistake was to urgently cook a starter I never cooked before - pear, pancetta and Gorgonzola salad.
Ingredients:
First mistake was not to put 2 sets of forks and knives so the starter and the main course was eaten with the same cutlery.
The second mistake was to urgently cook a starter I never cooked before - pear, pancetta and Gorgonzola salad.
Ingredients:
1 bag of rocket
1 pear
50 gram of fried pancetta
80 gram of Gorgonzola
50 g of beetroot
For the vinaigrette
125 ml of balsamic vinegar
60 ml olive oil
1 tablespoon of mustard
some dried thyme
Salt and pepper
Optional: garlic
Cooking: just toss everything together and create a vinaigrette in a shaker or salad dressing container.
The problem with this salad: rocket and blue cheese is a classic mix. Pancetta is fine. But the pear just does not belong to this salad. Completely. I used ripened expensive Waitrose pears and it still did not work. Complete failure!
Verdict: planning is extremely important and spontaneous things being exciting and fun will definitely not work out in certain places.
