Gourmet Food Club!

I belong to a Gourmet Food Club (I sound like I am confessing something)! It is such a fun thing to be involved with. We are a group of 8 women who really love cooking, really love entertaining, and really love eating good food. The 8 of us are then divided up into groups of 2 making 4 partnerships. When a partnership is created it is there responsibility to come up with a gourmet meal to host for the other 6 ladies. My partner in this group is my good friend Ariane. We had the opportunity to host a dinner on April 30th. We had a really good time this last month thinking, planning, researching, and creating for our dinner. We decided our theme would be "Simple Elegance" with the focus on gerber daises. The colors we choose were white, silver, hot pink, and lime green with a few splashes of bright yellow. Here is what we came up with for the table setting.

Ariane has a wonderful resource in her mom who loves to entertain. After we choose our flowers we took them to her mom and she had these tall skinny vases and all the different sized candles that she let us use. I was so pleased with out table setting it was just as I had imagined it.

These are our name cards, a silver pot with pink gerber daises bunched together. Ariane embossed each name in silver. We didn't know we could be so creative!

Here is the actual place setting. I think it turned out perfect!

Here is our menu:

Appetizers

Mini Cheese Balls

Cucumber Sandwiches

Lime Spirits (The Mormon Way)

Soup

Creme of Asparagus

Salad

Leslie's Salad

Lemon Sorbet

Main course

Feta and Spinach Stuffed Chicken breasts

with Coconut Lime Sauce

Balsamic Roasted Asparagus

Croissant

Dessert

Chocolate Dipped Macaroons

Lemon Meringue Puffed Tart

Strawberry Danish

Here are our appetizers

Here are our desserts. When the flash went off it made the charger look gold instead of silver. I didn't even think about taking a picture of our salad and soup,but I did take a picture of our main dish, but it was very blurry and not worth posting.

Ariane and I took 2 days to prepare the food. So when the actual event came, the evening was so fun and relaxing. I enlisted Bryndee and Torie to come and help serve. Torie totally ate it up. She was loving every minute of it. She would fill our glasses, take away the dirty plates, bring out the new plates with the new dishes on them. Bryndee on the other hand, was much happier in the kitchen helping to prepare the plates and clean the dishes 0ff. These two girls are so different it is amazing they are from the same family. Once again it was a wonderful night and thanks so much Ariane for all the fun memories and to Brett for doing the dishes! What a guy!