I have to admit, the flowers from yesterday's post were for a reason...I had the flagship meeting of a few friends for our new Supper Club. Here is how it works...The Hostess picks a cookbook, and makes the main course and everyone picks a dish from the book to make and bring. I picked
Alice Waters The Simple Art of Food. Such a great cookbook... simple food is the best food. It was so much fun, and all of the Food was Delish.
Not being a real cookbook follower myself (I make things up as I go along, go figure:)) it was fun to go by a recipe...I made a few things I never had before...Pork Carnitas, Homemade Tortillas, and FLAN! You would think the Flan would be where I failed, but it Turned out!!!! It was amazing that this little flan made it thru, when they say take it out when jiggly, they mean jiggly! I made the caramel, did the water bath, and thought I had failed big time when the water bath boiled over into the flan...but I just trudged on, thinking it would be a Huge mess when I turned it out onto the plate....I think I shreaked..."Oh, my gosh!" when all of the sauce fell out on top of the jiggly custard! But, evidently that was how it was supposed to be. Feeling so good about myself, I might try out for Next Food Network Star!
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The Flan...just removed from the dish....didn't know that there would be so much sauce...THAT was a surprise! |
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Mmmmm, mmmmm! |
Here are some more stars of the evening....really it was ALL good, and I was more busy eating than taking photos. I think I got most of it, except the beans and rice...which were excellent too and should have gotten a photo!
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Sangria Anyone....this is great because it can be made by the glass instead of a huge vat! |
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Preparation of the Delicious Rice. |
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Yummy Guacamole....in my old vintage orange serving pieces. I bring them out for mexican meals! |
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Is your mouth watering yet....Gazpacho....perfect in this heat! |
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A Nice big Carnita Burrito with ALL the fixins...and my attempt at Tortillas in the Background....
Made for better dippers than Burrito wraps. Thank goodness I had a back up! |
I love to set a table....going with the theme of simple and in-season, I picked the Black Eyed Susans as my centerpiece. Determined to use what I had, and tired of my same old place mats, I decided to use the cardboard seperators from the tons of paper samples that I have gotten, they were the perfect size....I KNEW they would come in handy some day.
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I love a good Bird's Eye View |
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Burlap and Cardboard. and white china...Can you get any more simple?? |
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My mother-in-law gifted me 5 vintage monogrammed Dinner Napkins with her maiden name initial "B".
I think that any monogram is pretty, even if it isn't your own. |
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Just another view. |
So, I didn't get organized yesterday, but I managed to be a part of a Real Simple meal that was Simply Delicious! AND to top it all off, I made FLAN....it was all just FLANtastic! Ha, ha! Can't wait for our next get together in September.
3 comments:
I just about had a fit the last time our supper club met and I had dessert. The meal was mexican! I had never made flan! but I did it and it was great and I have made it at least two more times. Who knew?
Gretchen,
I hope you can make our first "dinner swap" once our renovation is complete! I will put you in charge of the table setting or the flan!
Love how you embrace life, so simple, yet so fantastic.
pve
What a lovely evening. Your table looks beautiful, meal delicious and the flan looks fabulous!!
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