I will most likely talk about "Dinner Club" every so often in my blog. Three couples that Cindy and I know, decided to gather on a regular basis and share a meal. Usually on a Saturday night. We alternate who's house the dinner will be at. Saturday we were at Dinner Club again ... and it was Awesome!
Lets start with the basics. Pete and Katherine were the hosts this time. Butch, Mandy, Curt and Marybeth were all there with my wife Cindy and I. We started with a cheese fondue with some baguette bread slices. Then dinner was served at a beautiful table (Katherine) that included Chicken Marsala (Pete and Katherine), a Tremendous Salad (Mandy ... no one makes a better salad!) and a tossed pasta with mushrooms, artichoke hearts and broccoli (Me). We finished the meal with a chocolate fondue (Pete and Katherine) with apple's, bananas, marshmallows and cheesecake to dip into the chocolate. It was soooo good.
Dinner was Awesome ... but more than that ... this was kind of a "date" time with my wife. We do not do that often enough lately ... so I really enjoyed just driving there with my wife and not hearing the kids in the back of the mini-van. Top that time off with fellowship, laughter and prayer with our friends and you can see how the evening was GREAT. The joy of having everyone laughing and talking around the table while there are three or four conversations going on and everyone just content to sit and enjoy one another is why I cook! Some point today I will post again and provide the recipe for the pasta ... since it did turn out very good. (It was a new recipe for me.) I will also provide recipes this week for a Chicken Marsala (Pete I will use my recipe ... but yours was GREAT!), a Roasted Chicken - Tomato Pasta Sauce and a Sausage with Peppers and Onions.
Finally I want to take a minute to say Thank You to those who are reading this blog for the first time this week. I hope that my passion for food and friends will be something that you can enjoy and that the recipes will allow you to cook wonderful meals and spend more time with your family and friends.
Also, to the gang at Dinner Club ... I LOVE YOU ALL! Through thick and thin ... in good and bad times I know that I will be able to count on all of you for prayer and fellowship. I hope that all of you know ... I will also be there for you!
In HIS Service,
Mark
About Me
- MarktheChef
- Upstate NY Italian and a Buffalo Bills fan ... now I live in Charlotte, NC ... but I am not a southerner ... they will not let me be one!
4 comments:
Hey Mark! You know we all love you too! Thanks for writing up our little evening with such flair... We all sound so fancy! BTW, I brought the baguette bread and some strawberries, so that was my contribution to the meal, lest we look like mooches! Ü I did not cook anything though, as our hardwoods were being laid all that day and doing much of anything at our house was complicated.
We do have such a special group and I love our dinner club!
And I should have been there helping you put down the hardwoods ... but it was much more fun driving all over Concord and looking for a place NOT to play a soccer tourney.
That's awesome that you have a group of friends that you can get together with and just be you and delve into eachothers lives over food. Very unique and how blessed you are!
I got a call from Butch today ... and he said that he thought I may have mis-spelled his name ... using an I instead of a U ... it is NOT true Butch. Love you Bro!
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