Aloha! The Gretna Dinner Club’s “First of the Year” is This Weekend

How we all look forward to our first Dinner Club of the year! Our volleyball season (and our summer) has ended and we’ve had a fall packed full of kids’ sporting events, school start-up and not nearly enough “me time” to go around. What’s the perfect cure? A great meal with friends that doesn’t cost you restaurant expenditure in addition to the ever-present babysitting bills!

You pay for the ingredients for only one dish, make only one dish and go enjoy an entire meal in the comfort of someone’s home instead of a loud restaurant, where you’re often situated around a long table where you can only engage in conversation with the two or three other people seated directly opposite or beside yourself.

Dinner Club offers opportunity to sip a glass of your favorite cocktail as you all arrive. You can mill around and talk to everyone, catch up on what they’ve been doing and all the while enjoy the delicious smells that begin to emanate from the oven or stovetop.

Below is our menu for this weekend: our Luau night! The focal point of this meal is a “Kahlua Smoked Pork” that is being prepared by our host couple. I know they have big plans to slow-roast it on their smoker outside for many hours and it should be falling-apart delicious in time for our meal!