Friday Evening Nibbles

After attending Friday afternoon Happy Hours at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, we came home with bellies full of beer and nibbles, so we didn't really need to have dinner. We settled in with a bottle of 2006 Redcliffe sauvignon blanc (Marlborough, NZ) -- a pretty decent wine and a good value since our local bottle store sells it at $20 for a magnum (no, we did not finish the whole bottle last night).

As usual, however, Melissa simply couldn't stay out of the kitchen. Upon discovering we had no bread or crackers with which to polish off the last of Melissa's homemade pâté, most normal people would just whip down to the store (there are three within a couple of blocks of us) and get some, but Melissa decided to make her own. She whipped up a pizza-dough kind of concoction studded with fresh chives cut from the garden and baked it to a beautiful golden brown.







It came out more or less like a flatbread you might use to make panini, and it tasted wonderful. Melissa often plans to freeze a portion or two when she makes breads, but I can't stay away from fresh, moist bread still warm from the oven, so that never happens.

Cut up into square pieces and drizzled with some good olive oil, it made the perfect vehicle for pâté, which we subsequently devoured. We then devoured most of the boule loaf Melissa made from the same dough. With a glass of wine an altogether respectable late-night snack...