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Name One of Your Favorite Dinner Moments

Dinner with Friends

 

 

 

Last night a few friends gathered at our home for dinner:

Philippe our friend who makes paella, dances salsa and teases me ruthlessly about how my dishes are not as old as I say they are, and that certainly I bought them at Ikea. If my dishes weren't so old I might bop his beatle with one of them just to add to the teasing/taunting fun of it all.

Victor is a friend that use to live in our town. He is so funny and fun to be around that usually I start laughing the second I see him. He is a studied clown that is a fact. Some of my funniest memories include him… One of the best is him doing a striptease on a cruise we went on. God I still crack up thinking of it.

 

 

Dinner with Friends

 

Denise and Vlad I met several years ago through blogging… I adore them both.

And if you have been reading my blog you know Denise is a one fun loving woman. Panties, dirty jokes, blue bras and one of the best cooks I know. 

Sacha and Yann well that goes with out saying, a fun night.

 

Dinner with Friends

 

 

Since I rarely cook with recipes, usually inventing as I go, last night wasn't any different. I roasted pears with roquefort, hazelnuts and hazelnut oil. On the side was a mixed herb and green salad with a walnut dressing.

Everyone enjoyed it, so that was a happy hit.

 

 

Dinner with Friends

 

After the aperitif I served a chilled melon, banana, mint, coconut vodka cream. Sacha called it, "An APRES-pero", or in English, "A After an apero."

Apres-pero.

 

Dinner with Friends

Romantic table cause I like pretty.

And since there were mostly guys last night I especially like going sweet romantic just to see them dine with such grace. Nothing like seeing men comfortable with their feminine side.

What is one of your favorite dinner moments?

Comments

10 responses to “Name One of Your Favorite Dinner Moments”

  1. g

    well mine was from a couple years ago …my sister and I went to visit our childhood friend in new jersey-it was valentines day….so we were just there for lunch…well as the day progressed lunch became afternoon afternoon became evening and evening became valentine’s dinner it was one of the best valentine’s day ever!laughs relaxed company good food un-fussy but delish and the love of a sister and longtime friend(her family too) one of my favorite days!

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  2. RebeccaNYC

    On the roof deck of “our” house in France, with my dear friend visiting from Arles…..laughing so hard late into the night that our sides hurt. We talked about it the other day and cracked up just thinking about it.

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  3. blissfarmantiques@gmail.com

    The first time I had dinner with friends in France. I was young-well, younger…maybe 28. Coming from junk-food-America (especially back then, this was the 1980’s) I had never seen anyone so engrossed with making dinner! What wine should we serve? The discussion was at least 30 minutes long, what salad sauce-is there enough vinegar in that mustard? What snacks before hand? These were all really important questions to the hosts. The table was set, we had tiny almonds and olives before dinner, which was steak (I’m not a steak eater,) potatoes with butter and cracked pepper and skinny, skinny green beans. The wine (I was not a wine drinker either) was red (that’s all I know.) They instructed me to have some meat with a bit of mustard (MUSTARD? on streak? Never heard of that before,) and to sip some of the wine as I ate the mustardy steak. IT WAS AMAZING! All of the flavors played with and off one another. The succulent steak, offset by the sharp tang of vinegary mustard, the fruity but dusky red wine swirling around it all. The skinny green beans tasted like a freshly mown lawn smells. I could taste the color green! I remember slowing down, wanting to savor the taste sensations and wanting it to last. It was magical. I instantly understood the concept of eating really good food for the pleasure of really good food. I am happy to report that the food scene in the U.S. has changed a great deal and is far more thoughtful than it was when I was a kid. I count that as the first really good meal I ever had! At age 28!

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  4. Bev S.

    I love, love to have people over for dinner.
    We’ve been having a lot of meetings with our church because of some things going on and so I invite the whole board over for dinner. It is just so much fun to have everyone there, eating, joking, drinking (even some wine), praying. I know it is a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.

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  5. Jan wasmann

    Cory – yours are the happiest parties to dream about, especially with a table full of happy handsome men that are enjoying their feminine side along with the women who love them – Bon appetite – may we one day meet!

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  6. Nikki Maxwell

    My favourite lunch moment was when I was 13 (now 51 and had SO many amazing moments since then but this is still the best) and I remember it like yesterday.
    We were fishing in Mexico in a boat off a tiny island that nobody apart from the local fisherman knew about at the time called Ixtapa island. Caught a 28lb tuna fish and 30 minutes later were enjoying thick tuna steaks served simply with slices of tomato and red onion on the beach. The tuna having been BBQ’d inside the shell of an old oil drum and perfectly cooked by the lovely salty old sea dog guy who lived on the island under a palm tree and made his living cooking just-caught fish for the local fishermens lunch. Heaven on a stick.

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  7. Dd

    If I could taste that salad, that might be my favorite dinner moment!

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  8. Diogenes

    Most memorable was in a chic restaurant, when we flipped the starched linen covering the bread basket open, not realizing it had landed on top of a votive candle on our table. It erupted into flames. The waitress ran to the table and threw our water glasses at it. Then we ate our meal.

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  9. Diogenes

    Forgot…first she screamed.

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  10. Marilyn

    This sounds totally delightful with dear friends and food. I just posted on my blog a lunch I did this week, which was rather memorable.

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