Pavlova for dessert

Anonymous wrote:Handmade pasta.
High hydration pizza dough with crest ingredients
Grilled fruits
Anything with fresh figs
Risotto

Mint pizza?

My experience is that the most expensive foods (like fresh scallops) are easiest to do well like you describe. Quality steak or seafood, crab cakes with fresh lump crab meat and very little filler, etc.

Bacon wrapped chicken thighs

Flan
Smoked salmon
crab cakes

souffle!

Steamed mussels and a loaf of good crusty bread is inexpensive, easy and really wows people.

Baked Brie

Charcuterie trays

Any well-presented salad with an "unusual" ingredient or two. As long as it looks pretty and is something other than a garden or caesar salad, people seem to comment.

those little fish packets wrapped in parchment with a nice sauce to drizzle (pesto or chimichurri or something)

Spaghetti carbonara-use guanciale

lamb chops
Nice steaks

Ribs
Tenderloin
Caprese salad w good tomatoes
Fresh pesto
Really good sweet corn
Spatchcocked roast chicken

Cheesecake.

I’m not even a fan, but others seem to get excited about it and it’s easy to make.

Handmade pasta.
High hydration pizza dough with crest ingredients
Grilled fruits
Anything with fresh figs
Risotto

I recently bought some beautiful, fresh sea scallops and seared them on a cast iron skillet with salt, peppers, squeeze of lemon, and everyone was loving it. So easy!

Made me wonder…what are some other easy dishes that make people say “wow!”???