Christmas January 5, 2019
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To celebrate Christmas, we had the final Recipe Club dinner for the year on Monday 17th December. Kerri and Laura made the dishes, with Laura hosting.
Drinks
Kerri made two amazing cocktails that started and finished the meal – the “ornamentini” made within Christmas tree baubles, and chocolate peppermint martinis.
Entree
Laura began the meal proper with a cream-cheese Christmas tree.
Mains
The main course was maple mustard roasted turkey with harvest rice, orange carrots with yoghurt parsley dressing, smashed crispy roast potatoes with turmeric and coconut, and southern-style sweet potato salad.
Dessert
Kerri made a gingerbread and cherry galette for dessert (together with the chocolate peppermint martinis).
Yellow January 5, 2019
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On Monday 15th October, Kerri and Laura created a Yellow dinner, with Laura hosting.
Drink
We enjoyed a bourbon lemonade fruit punch.
Mains
The mains were a yellow curry and a Thai chicken salad.
Dessert
To finish the meal with yellow desserts, we had lemongrass parfait with pineapple salsa, and lemon brownies.
Geometric Shapes January 5, 2019
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On Monday 6th August, Laura and Franca provided not just amazing-tasting food, but amazing-looking food, with a theme of Geometric Shapes. Laura hosted, and both Laura and Franca made sweet and savoury dishes.
Entree
To begin the meal, Laura made vegetable samosas (in a tetrahedron shape).
Mains
For main course, Laura served chicken involtini with smoked mozarella (in cylinders), and Franca made us arancini “balls” (in a conical shape).
Dessert
To finish the meal, Laura gave us gluten-free lamingtons (in cubes), and Franca gave us the most spectacular dessert we’ve ever had – a chocolate sphere filled with raspberry ice-cream and raspberries, topped with peanut butter caramel sauce.
Nightshades June 9, 2018
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On Monday 7th May, Franca hosted the Nightshades dinner and served up dishes together with Laura.
Entre
Franca began the meal with roast chilli and bacon crumb.
Mains
Main course included an incredible moussaka and some other dishes I unfortunately can’t remember.
Dessert
Laura finished the meal with two desserts: a chilli chocolate mousse and a creme cheese cupcake.
Rice February 11, 2018
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Yet again we had a theme that we were surprised hadn’t been done yet, and this time it was Rice. Laura hosted and provided up with the savoury dishes, with Franca joining her to provide us with the sweet ones.
Drink
Laura (assisted by her daughter) started the evening with a strawberry and sake cocktail.
Entre
Laura started the meal proper with two entres: Vietnamese rice paper rolls with crispy tofu, and Thai chicken and black rice soup.
Main
For main course, Laura gave us chorizo and spinach paella.
Dessert
To finish, Franca served us a chocolate and peanut butter ricebubble slice, a pandan sticky rice slice and a rice pudding with poached pear.
Fruits Starting With P January 3, 2018
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The evening of Monday 13th November 2017 was the night of the dinner themed for fruits beginning with the letter ‘P’. Franca hosted and cooked dishes along with Laura.
Drink
Franca started things off superbly with a Bellini cocktail.
Entre
Franca then served a roasted pear with blue cheese and thyme.
Mains
Laura made Thai pineapple chicken fried rice, and Franca made pork and pineapple Thai red curry and a pomelo salad with chilli, lime, peanuts and coconut.
Dessert
To finish, Laura served Malaysian pineapple tarts and coconut and passionfruit self-saucing pudding.
Seeds January 3, 2018
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The theme of the dinner on Monday 4th September 2017 was “seeds”. It turns out that a large number of things are seeds, but we were pretty traditional in our interpretation. Andrew hosted and made the savoury dishes, and Laura made the sweet dishes.
Entre
To begin with, Andrew made sunflower seed dip.
Mains
Andrew then served two dishes for main course: mustard baked chicken with poppy seeds and Yotam Ottolenghi’s roast pumpkin with cardamom and nigella seeds.
Dessert
To conclude the meal with style, Laura made a chocolate chia seed pudding, a lemon poppyseed cake, and sesame seed biscuits.
Rosemary August 12, 2017
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For Monday 24th July, our dinner had the theme of Rosemary. Kerri hosted the dinner, and cooked the dishes together with Laura.
Drink
I don’t remember what it was called but it definitely had both rosemary and vodka.
Entré
As an introduction to the theme, Laura started with rosemary and Parmesan biscuits.
Main
Main course was aromatic brined fried chicken, together with an orange, pear and date salad with orange rosemary vinaigrette, and duck fat roasted root veggies.
Dessert
The amazing conclusion to the dinner was rosemary and orange polenta cake, and rosemary and lemon panna cotta.
Ukrainian August 12, 2017
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For Monday 3rd April, Laura hosted the dinner dedicated to Ukrainian food. Laura cooked the savoury dishes and Andrew made the desserts.
Entré
Laura began the meal with a traditional bowl of borsch.
Main
The main course from Laura was kovbasa, deruny and a radish and walnut salad.
Dessert
For dessert, Andrew made a syrnyk cake and a makovyi cake.
Cinnamon August 12, 2017
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On Monday 9th January, Laura hosted the Cinnamon dinner and served up dishes together with Kerri.
Mains
Main course was Hyderabadi chicken korma, Malabar vegetable ishtu, and Punjabi tariwala gosht.
Dessert
A trio of desserts matched the trio of curries, with cinnamon & butterscotch parfait, snickerdoodles, and cinnamon blondie.
