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Someone’s Having a Birthday!!

Bob — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:04:31 +0000

Happy Birthday to Sally Browne who turns 50 on Wednesday July 23rd. You can send her an email birthday greeting at salbrowne@comcast.net .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLY!!

On another note Sally and I are looking at dates for the next dinner and figure September would be the first possibility. September 6th, 13th, or 27th would be the proposed dates we have open. If we can get some feed back on that we can try to get it all together and get the next dinner plan under way! Not sure about a theme yet but we are bouncing some ideas around. Email me or Sally with yays or nays on the dates mentioned.

-Bob

A delicious array of tastes and textures and colors too

Annette — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:46:45 +0000

Our last dinner at the JWert household…. My favorite colors being green for the greens in the salad and the squash in the delicate vegetable paella and maroon for the red wine sangria. Netti

Dinner at the Wert House 6/28/08

Bob — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:08:59 +0000

Our dinner at Jim and Judy’s is now part of history. We had a wonderful party with great food, a long soaking in the hot tub, too much beer and wine, and lots of laughter. We had an additional guest, Judy’s long time girlfriend Chris joined us, making it a party of 11 with Carol and Gus joining us too.

We started out with plenty of appetizers. Annette and Rink brought some kind of delicious grainy crackers and a chic pea spread/dip that got us all thinking Mediterranian and Chris made a Spanish Tortilla which was a baked potato, cheese and egg dish. Very Mediterranian! Mike and Maureen also brought an appetizer of clams with spicey sausage and white beans.

I could have walked away then but there was much more to come. We took a little break and endulged in some more drink and what not,,, then gathered around the table and had some chilled Sally Browne Gaspacho with some big croutons. Even after all the appetizers this was very refreshing and went down very well. Then we had a fresh green salad that Annette made with some home grown veggies along with her homemade Salad Dressing.

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Tonight at the Wert’s House

Bob — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:40:52 +0000

June 28th, 2008! Tonight’s the night!! The official Dinner Party gathering of Our Gourmet Dinner Club is tonight at Jim and Judy’s house. Theme is Mediterranian and we’re all looking forward to a “Hot” time tonight. Festivities to include eating, drinking, hot tubbing, and lots of laughing. Tonight’s guests will be Gus and Carol and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to having them party with us once again. Its always a great time. So get ready, take a nap or whatever you have to do, and we’ll see you around 7 tonight!!

Its Dinner Time!!

Bob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:30:26 +0000

Hope everyone has their recipes ready because our Dinner Party is this Saturday night at Jim and Judy’s house. Its a Mediterranian theme and Jim is whipping up a Paela which promises to be a treat. Plus our special guests will be there and we all know what it means to have Gus and Carol with us. Great dessert and side busting laughter! We haven’t seen them for a little while so it will be nice. So get ready to party hardy and we’ll see you all there.

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Gourmet Club Goes To The Mann

Sally — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:50:49 +0000

We managed to get it together and go to a concert. We went and saw REM with Modest Mouse and The Nationals and what a great night it was. The night wasn’t about gourmet dining or eating but we did enjoy a terrific night out. Now originally it was just going to be Jim and Judy and The Browne’s and the Rinkers but when we got there and met up with Jim and Judy, Mike and Maureen were there too. We had great seats in on the lawn and the place was more packed then I have ever seen it. A couple of high priced beers and a bag of peanuts was the extent of the food except for Jeremy’s Crab fries.

But the night wasn’t about food. It was all about the music and seeing a performance from a Classic Band that has been around forever!! REM played many of their classic songs that everyone sang along with and they sounded great!! During their encore Michael Stipes brought out Eddy Vettor from Pearl Jam and they did a song together then Michael brought out Pearl Jams Guitarist for another song so all in all the encore was about a half hour long. What a great concert it was!! Then the adventure of getting out of there began!! We made it home talking about the show the whole way. We all had a great night out and now we have next weeks dinner to look forward too.