Thursday, October 27, 2005
Dining ClubSome friends of mine have for long been talking about a dining club. You know this kind of meetings were you are cooking together after a special theme. Last night was kick-off for this club. My husband came home and asked – what do you want me to do? Nothing I answered, everything is prepared. Why don’t you make your self ready instead? He looked at me strangely and went into the shower. After a while he said to me again – are you sure everything is ready, they will be here any minutes? Yes, I said glancing up from my book I had started to read. Then I said, if you want to do something you can give the daughter her a porridge bowl. Once again he wrinkles his forehead but did not say more. He fed the daughter and said. It is almost 20.00 o clock now and you are still reading and I can’t feel any smell from food, where is the soup you’ve been talking about? I put down my book and said: Honey, it is a DINING CLUB that means we will cook every thing together THEN we will eat. He astonished like a fire hit him. Do you mean I am going to cook too? Yes, dear. Do I need to mention my husband never cook at home?
Anyway, our friends arrived and S started the same way as B. I can’t feel any food smell – wasn’t it supposed to be a dining club? I gave him a paper with the instructions of the food we were going to make. He stared at me at the same way as B did for some while ago. Are WE going to cook? Yes, that’s the point of this dining club. Everybody laughed!
It took us 1, 5 h to prepare this delicious dinner and I must say we all were very proud of the result:
Theme was France.
Starter:
French onion soup
Main course:
Duck marinated in orange juice, garlic, olive oil and Chinese Soya sauce.
Baked potatoes
Carrots in honey
Red wine sauce
Desert:
“Glace au four” – own baked ice-cream
We had a red Bourgeon wine and cold water to drink.
