Every year, the Kentucky Derby and Cinco De Mayo occur very close together and since it’d been a few months since we had a group over and we needed our entertaining fix, we decided to invite about 12 people over for a little celebration and watch the Derby. Food, of course, would be a focus. I completely forgot to take a photos of our beverages, but will include those recipes as well. In addition to the game, we dropped the names of all the horses into a hat and for $1 each, we allowed people to pull out a name and that was their horse and they received the pot (of cash!) when their horse won. I will add more recipes in the coming days so it’s not so overwhelming. But first, here was the menu:
- Cowboy Caviar Grapefruit Deviled Eggs (below)
- Kentucky Hot Brown Empanadas
- Chipotle Doughnuts
- Mini Dutch Babies
- Chorizo Breakfast Casserole
- Chive biscuits with homemade rhubarb jam and maple whipped butter
- A board with home-cured lonzino (Saucisson of Pork Tenderloin), beet ‘carpaccio‘, homemade crackers, and local sausages, deviled benton’s ham, kimchi scallion sauce
- Michalada and Peach Bourbon Tea along with a LOT of beer!
I will link the recipes from here as they go up. But here’s a preview:
And the Winner is…
