Recipes from the Past

Early on in our club we use to pass out the recipes we prepared. We also would post them on our website.  We haven’t done it for a while but when we did there was quite a list of proven recipes developing.  This was part of our old website but I just wanted to show it as a history timeline.   The website went online in the middle of 1999 but Sally and  I joined through Pat Vanarts the year before that.  Mike and Maureen came in shortly after us. In November of 2000 The Rinkers along with Jim and Judy Wert came on board.  At this point we had five couples in the group but in 2003 Pat and Dan Vanarts pulled out leaving it to be the four remaining couples still getting together .  Here is a list of recipes from dinners dating back to 1999.   As you will see we have tried a lot of different things and had many great parties!   The links to the recipes will open in a new window.  Just close it to come back to the Recipe page.

The list of Past Recipes can be found here!  Or click the link at the top for Past Recipes.

Merry Christmas

We hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season!

From Our

Gourmet Dinner Club

we wish you all

A Merry Christmas

Misconceptions About Wine

Thought this was an interesting article….

The Biggest Misconceptions About Wine
By: Shawn Wilson

There are quite a few mistakes made out there about wine. The first question is why are there people making this silly mistakes when it comes to tasting, smelling, storing and enjoying wine?

First because of an elitist few wine has always had this pompous sort of arrogance to it. Even myself when I am trying to explain a wine sometimes people will jokingly say “Well it tastes like wine to me!” And you know what they’re right, it is just fermented grapes at the end of the day. Grape juice that will eventually get you drunk.

Because of this intimidation towards wine many of us have developed some bizarre ways of dealing with the whole wine experience. Mistake number one and this always gives me the giggles, at a restaurant when the waiter presents the cork to the taster at the table and he or her decides to smell the cork. First off that is not why the waiter gave you the cork.

It was common place years ago that people would use a more expensive wines labels on much inferior wines. While labels are quite easy to reproduce the corks aren’t. Quality wines from well known vineyards will have their own cork to match the wine being produced, having the reassurance that the wine is indeed what you just paid for is the only reason they offer the cork. If you want to get a good idea what the wine is going to smell or taste like, wait two seconds and drink it!

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BackYard at Coffee Works

Bob, Annette and Rink from the club along with their harmonica player Joe Brauckman will be doing thier BackYard music at Coffee Works this Saturday night December 13th. Its a BackYard Holiday Party with live music from 8 to 11pm. This is a great little place with food and the best coffee. BYOB if you wish also.

A Dinner Out Maybe?

Now that we got our last dinner club party out of the way and won’t have another until the beginning of the new year, I say we organize a group dinner out together. Doesn’t have to be real fancy or too far away but someplace nice where we can enjoy each others company and be served.  It’s been a while since we have gone out as the group and I think we are overdue.  The few times we did it in the past we had a blast.  My idea is that the eight of us pick a place close by so its easy and even make it an early Sunday Dinner.  No one has to worry about getting off work and we don’t have to make it late one like we usually do on a weekend night. Whats better than not having to cook on a Sunday?  Just a relaxing early Sunday Night Dinner out with friends!!  What do you think?? 

- Bob

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