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| Our "Mad Men" dressed in their 60's best for dinner! |
Before jumping off into the culinary delights and good times with friends for this year, I thought I’d recap the highlights of last year’s Dinner Club season. We had six memorable meals, but there are always a few trips down memory lane that I find most entertaining, appetizing, etc.
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| Tomato and Gouda Soup |
Among them were some dishes I’d never had before, but plan to prepare again because they were simply delish! The purpose of this blog is always to encourage others to cook and entertain themselves, but it also is to remind our group of some of the yummy things we’ve accomplished!
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| We had volcanoes, mai tai's and more at our Luau Night! |
The food at our Brazilian Churrascaria (see my blog entries from February 2011) was so interesting and some of it was new to me. I’ve eaten Churrasco-style food previously, but we really dug deep and tried to stay true to the authentic foods of this country, although we may have slightly “overdone it” when it came to portion size! Ouch!
I was not able to attend our Cheese Focused menu last season, but my dear friends took pictures and provided me with commentary on the food of that Dinner Club. Thanks everyone! The Brie with Caramelized Onions sounded divine! I intend to prepare it as part of my holiday cooking this year.
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| Some of our Disco-era attire! |
Last season our group did two costumed events... One “all out” for our Night at the Disco; a fondue focused-feast (blog entries from January 2011) and one for our Mad Men dinner party where we toned it down a bit, but still had fun digging into the attire of the 1960’s as well as the foods (April 2011)!
Yes, last year was a good one, but we get better and better as the years fly by. Like fine wine, I think we’re aging with style! With that… on to this year’s Gretna Dinner Club Season. Our first menu is posted below for you to take a look at. I’ll begin later this week with more on the “Feast of the Seven Fishes”, a traditional Italian Christmas Eve meal and begin sharing some recipes with you as well. Thanks for reading!
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| The ladies at our Mad Men dinner party! |
Here's the next menu:
