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Shrimp Ball Soup-photo by Brian Carmen
How to start a culinary dinner club
Starting a culinary dining group is simple, it is fun and a great reason to show off recipes you know and ones you want to try. Start small, reach out to friends and co-workers who like to cook, maybe 3 other people – if you know more, then invite them as well.
- - Rotate hosting the gatherings at different homes
- - The host gets to choose the theme (i.e. ethnic, regional, seafood, cookbook or celeb chefs recipes, spa cuisine, vegetarian etc.)
- - The host can coordinate what dishes are coming to the dinner or choose not to (I don’t coordinate it….it is more fun.)
- - Choose how often you want to hold them every 4 weeks, every 6 weeks –you get the picture?
- - Voila – you have a culinary dinner group!
Over the years, I have been part of two such groups and always enjoyed them immensely: not only for the food but for the friendships.
I recently reached out to an acquaintance who I knew was into cooking and suggested we start a group. She would invite about 4 to 6 friends and I the same.
Tuesday night was an inaugural dinner at my house with the new group. Choosing a couple days before Thanksgiving to host it wasn’t the best choice of days and we had a couple of cancellations at the last minute. All-in-all, there were 6 of us including two guests (since there was so much food). The theme I chose was “Anything but Turkey.” Our dinner ended up being eclectic, fun and tasty. The dishes for the evening:
- -Oysters in a champagne cream with spinach served in an artichoke heart (recipe link)
- -Vietnamese spring rolls with nuoc mam dipping sauce
- -Shrimp ball soup (recipe link) - see photo above
- -Russian herring and potato salad
- -Honey truffle thyme marinated chicken thighs
- -White asparagus with lemon zest
- -Apricot almond cake - I have a link to the Kerrygold cookbook but you have to click on dessert tab and then on the apricot almond cake- here is the (link)
A miracle fruit experiment to wrap up the evening
Early this summer I participated in an experiment with the magic berry, a taste altering fruit which contains miraculin. It alters your tongues perception of sour and bitter foods making them sweet. MiracleUK company from Great Britain sent me a complimentary pouch of the freeze-dried miracle fruit. After the culinary dinner posse had eaten we tried the experiment. I kept it simple, each was given some of the powder that they left on there tongue for a minute or so, then I gave them a slice of lemon to suck on and a taste of vinegar, both became sweet to them.
Let us know what your culinary groups do or any suggestions for people putting a group together.
For more info: Miracle Fruit: I have written about the miracle fruit in past posts in greater detail and here is the full story and also another one I posted on Gordon Ramsey’s reaction to the magic berry.
If you are a member of www.Facebook check out my “Love to Cook” group.
Purchase Miracle Fruit: www.miracleUK.info
Topics: Recipes , Asian Food , Dara's Fabulous Adventures , Dining Event , Inquiring Minds
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