STATE DINNER IN HONOR OF GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL

AND ITS NOT EVEN MY BIRTHDAY

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Looks like the low key Iris watching parties are catching on, as the Obama's had the Merkels over for a little lower key rose watching last night.  Love was in the air as President Obama entertained European BFF German Chancellor Anglea Merkle in the back yard of the White House

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Michelle greeting CHancellor Merkle ROCKING some Diane von Furstenberg!   (Resort '12 ) Looks great.

A break from the White House for a little romp over the the State Dept, where gal pals and pantsuit lovers Hill and Angie shared a little joke. Funny, even in German.

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Later that night, 

OUR First Lady, AGAIN

looked BEAUTIFUL

  The FLOTUS wore a floor-length ivory Naeem Khan gown with crystal beading. She added some chunky Alexis Bittar bangles and loosely curled her hair

THE MENU

White House Chopped Garden Salad
Fine Herbs
White House Honey Gastrique

Tuna Tartare with Rye Crisps
Pickled Young Carrots and Mustard Oil
Spring Pea Salad
Shaved Ham and Ginger Snaps

Petit Filet with Maryland Crab Ravioli
Wild Ramp Puree

Apple Strudel
Golden Raisins and Topfen

The four-course dinner menu, created by Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses, is also a celebration of gold and green, relying on vegetables and honey sourced from the White House. The menu has been deemed "A Spring Harvest Dinner," and celebrates this year's first harvest of the Kitchen Garden, held last Friday, June 3rd, when a group of American Indian visitors joined the First Lady.


"All of the courses are subtly infused with the perennial and annual herbs from the garden," the East Wing noted in its menu guidance. As with previous State Dinners, beef is the entree (though in small proportion: It's a petite filet), and there is a focus on seafood. It's an All American meal, with artisanal and seasonal ingredients from six different states highlighted--including a second course that features tuna from President Obama's home state of Hawaii (so take that, birthers).


The White House spotlighted some of the ingredients, naming where these were sourced from, in a continuing effort to encourage regional food sourcing. The Spiced Mammoth Pecans used in the White House Chopped Salad are from Georgia, and the Blue Crab that accompanies the entree is from Maryland. Wild ramps from West Virginia accompany the main course, too.


The White House Kitchen Garden Chopped Salad that begins the feast is deemed a "cornucopia," and contains lettuces and fine herbs from the Kitchen Garden, tossed in a Honey vinaigrette made with White House Beehive Honey. The carrots and peas featured in the second course are from the Kitchen Garden, too.


The dessert pays homage to one of the traditional sweets from Chancellor Merkel's homeland: It's Apple Strudel. Spectacular Apple Strudel, no doubt, and made with apples from Maryland. It's topped with golden raisins from California and topfen, a Farmer's Cheese sourced from Vermont. The East Wing notes that the apple and topfen combination is "a twist on a traditional German recipe for strudel and will be served with schlag, an unsweetened whipped cream."


A selection of American wines will accompany each course, but the White House did not identify these.

The Bush China was used, hues of green and gold through out with silver and clear sequin table cloths, I think it is very pretty and modern.

A lovely early Summers night in Washington


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