In case you missed this in GD, the recipes for the Inaugural Luncheon

[NMDemDist2]

http://inaugural.senate.gov/documents/doc-2009-recipes.pdf

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[Hekate]

1. Can I come? It looks delish. nt

[Callalily]

2. Thanks, I did miss this.

Think I'll pass on the molasses/sweet potato but I'm in for the rest. Oh wait, I'm not attending. ;)

[hippywife]

3. That looks like a great menu

and actually if you look at it, it's also a very simple menu for the most part, anyway.

[japple]

4. Wow, that chutney sounds positively splendid! Wonder if

they'll use the ugly set of china Laura ordered to serve it?

[Vinca]

5. Yum - can they FedEx me a quart of seafood stew? nt

[lavenderdiva]

6. that menu looks absolutely delicious--

I have a question: who gets to decide the menu? Does Michelle Obama get to decide? Or, is it the White House chef; and if its the chef, is this chef one who Mrs. Obama has selected?

[NMDemDist2]

7. I think this is the Congressional Luncheon

so I'm thinking the Congressional chefs that run the lunchroom over there

:shrug:

[lavenderdiva]

10. oops-- I didn't catch the congressional luncheon part

but that makes sense about their chefs selecting the menu. That seafood stew sounds scrumptious!

[Warpy]

8. It's a little odd to have a fish starter and two poultry courses

Usually a red meat course is in there somewhere. I guess Obama's health conscious despite the smoking.

It all looks lovely. I just wonder what they're going to do with the rest of the duck.

[housewolf]

9. Obama will be attending this Congressional Luncheon and they have a gift for him

from the American people - Obama's first official gift as president




To Barack Obama, from Congress on behalf of the American people: One hand-cut, crystal bowl with an etching of his new home in Washington.

The president-elect will receive the present at a luncheon with members of Congress after the inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20.

The $2,500 one-of-a-kind bowl weighs nearly 8 pounds and shows an image of the White House, with cherry trees on each side. As the bowl is rotated, the president's residence can be seen through the trees.

Congress commissioned the bowl from Lenox Inc., which donated it as a gift, a favor permissible under a congressional resolution.

Joe Biden will receive a similar crystal bowl when he becomes vice president, only his will have an image of the Capitol, with blooming cherry trees

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/obamas-first-gift-as-pres_n_156775.html

[LaydeeBug]

11. This is so cool. Do they do this for all the luncheons?

It'd be cool to make the inaugural menu from one of the balls for an inaugural dinner party.

[NMDemDist2]

12. they had the 2000 and 2004 listed on the main website

I should go look and see if the Dem's were different than bushco's

:rofl:

here's 2005 http://inaugural.senate.gov/documents/doc-2005-recipes.pdf

and 2001 http://inaugural.senate.gov/documents/doc-2001-recipes.pdf

[housewolf]

13. More on the luncheon... it's a tribute to Lincoln as well ... the Lincoln China

Since this year is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, and Obama is treading in Lincoln's footsteps with a train trip from Philadelphia the Saturday before the inaugration and a speech at the Lincoln Memorial the following day -

The luncheon that will be served in Congress's Statuary Hall to the president-elect and vice president-elect and their families -- as well as congressional leaders, justices of the Supreme Court and pending members of the Obama Cabinet -- will be modeled after foods that Lincoln ate and enjoyed.

The first course will even be served on replicas of the china picked out by then-first lady Mary Todd Lincoln at the beginning of her husband's term in office.

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The luncheon's appetizer will be seafood stew in puff pastry -- scallops, shrimp, lobster -- served as a nod to the 16th president's love of stewed and scalloped oysters.

The main course -- duck breast with sour-cherry chutney and herb-roasted pheasant served with molasses sweet potatoes and winter vegetables -- is a nod to the root vegetables and wild game that Mr. Lincoln favored growing up on the frontier in Kentucky and Indiana.

The apple cinnamon sponge cake dessert is a nod to Mr. Lincoln's love of apples and apple cake.

The full menu was released by the Inaugural Committee on Friday, which also released the recipes for the meals should one want to try them at home.

Design Cuisine, is the Arlington, Va., caterer hired to create the meals for the Inaugural Luncheon.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/obama-will-eat.html
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Since the Lincoln china pattern hasn't made it onto our other thread about White House china, here it is: