Things I love today: Dinner parties

I love throwing dinner parties! Tonight, our friend Kate is visiting San Francisco. Instead of eating out we decided this morning to have everyone to the apartment for dinner. Nicole and Dave are also coming with their dog, Mojito, in tow. Here’s the plan:

• Edamame crudites
• Pork Gyoza with Schizuan chili sauce
• Apple, jimica and radish salad with rice vinegar & grapefruit dressing
• Spicy orange chicken, persimmon and pecan stir fry with rice
• Ginger gelato and pumpkin gelato

Plus chilled white wine, fun tunes, mauve roses and an orange table runner. It’s going to be great! I have to stop at the produce market on the way home and then start chopping. Good thing Rob and I just bought fancy new knives! (uh oh, that’s exactly the kind of statement that results in tomorrow’s post being about having my finger sewn back on)