Happy Birthday Ms. Foodie

For Ms Foodie's birthday, Chef MJ spearheaded a dinner get together for a small group of ten. Paladar offered a great deal of three appetizers, three entress and three desserts served family style for $36 per person. Not a bad deal when you are looking for a nice meal before a night of drinking. Everything was as good as it looks and I think I have to get back there soon!

Here's the menu we decided upon:

Empanadas: Seasoned flour turnovers filled with chicken picadillo, served with smoked tomato salsa

Costillas 'LES' Pork Spare Ribs: with guava BBQ sauce, served with mango, jicama & cabbage slaw

Marinero Fish: ceviche with habanero, lemon & citrus segments

Pan Roasted Market Fish With coconut clam rice & orange rocoto chile vinagrette

Carne Asada: Grilled sirloin steak with salsa verde,yucca con mojo & bitter greens salad

Pollo Asado: Adobo-rubbed chicken with roasted garlic chipotle glaze, & sautéed hominy

For dessert, I chose the tres leche cake (much better than I anticipated), the flourless chocolate cake and the bananas soaked in rum. They also brought over some coconut ice cream complete with a birthday candle. It doesn't get much better than this.