Group cooking, PART III: Dinner, Sunday December 3rd

Buongiorno.
Thank you for the great response, again! Participation requests are increasing all the time, so thank you for registering early.

The numbers and courses have been tallied and without further ado, here are the results:

If you make a non-vegetarian entree Dungeness crab, mussels or oysters are our seasonal ingredients. For those that were worried about the availability of crabs due to delays in the opening of the season: Do not worry; the crab season is open, I've already taken sampled our Dungeness, and it's as good as promised. 

Vegetables: Portobello and cremini mushrooms, beets, potatoes and artichokes (the last two received the same number of votes).

Fruit: Pomegranates

The list of participants is below. All the spots are full so if you're wondering if you can bring a friend not listed here, the answer is: Sorry, maybe next time. I've had to turn down quite a few people already. If your name isn't on the list, please stay tuned for the next dinner and register early.

Grazie,
Marco Flavio

Participants:

Marco Flavio
Seafood entree, freshly-baked focaccias and a Portobello mushroom pate'

Jeremy and Mike
Spiced apple Napoleons with pomegranate caramel sauce and pomegranate sorbet and Jeremy's famous marinated cracked crab plus a roasted root vegetable salad with a pomegranate dressing

Scott Weitze
Entree

SYDNEY PETERS
Crab entree and dessert

Julia Kochi
Veggie appetizer

Joanna Tong (maybe with a guest)
Vegetarian entree (if with guest, he/she will also bring 2-3 bottles of good wine)

Samsara Oberle
Entree

Dan Schuster (maybe with a guest)
Dessert (if with guest, he/she will also bring another course)

Anne (with guest)
2 bottles of good wine and beer, and a mussels appetizer

Elizabeth Sousa
Appetizer (non-vegetarian)

Heather Thayer
Appetizer

Amanda Darnell & David Joud
Mixed pomegranated mojitos and margaritas, Paella with crab, clams, mussles, sole, italian sausage and chicken (Man, do do I love their enthusiasm!)

Unhei and Ben
Entree

Jacqueline G (with a guest)
She will bring 2-3 bottles of good white wine, the guest will bring a dessert

Becky (with a guest)
She will bring 2-3 bottles of good white wine, the guest will bring a salad

Margherita Navarro (with a guest)
She'll bring entree and her guest  bring a seafood salad

Eve Diamond
Salad

DeeAnn
Crab entree

Walter Scott Martin 
Non-alcoholic drinks

Andrea Jadwin
Salad

Benny
Salad

Leora Zadik
Mussels entree

Amélie and Björn
Entree and dessert

Melanie
2-3 bottles of good wine

Thank you so much!
Marco Flavio

Comments

[Lyora Zadik]

I will be making dessert, I can't make mussels.
Lyora

Got it! No problem.
Marco Flavio

[Scott]

i'm up for picking mussels (musseling?) on saturday with the group, though i've never done it...