So, confession time: this isn’t the menu I’d originally planned. After scouring the web for 80′ characteristic dishes, I’d settled on making ’80 party foods: Devilled eggs, cheese & veg toothpick hedgehog, vol-au-vents, Viennetta ice-cream cake. But then came Lianne’s Disco dinner – an all-in 70′ party food bonanza – and guess what she served?? …
Disco Fever!
Lianne is back! Thanks to her dedication to the annual Big Fun Walk, raising funds for the North London Hospice (you can donate here), we got to enjoy her company and cooking again đ And her chosen theme for D dinner was… Disco! What the hell is Disco food, you ask? Well, It’s all those …
Care to Consume a Creative Concoction with us, Chums?
Sometimes you gotta go with the first thing that springs into your mind, and this was definitely the case with Bernhard and his C dinner. What do you cook for a C-themed dinner? Well, C foods, obviously. Not Seafood, but Cee Foods. Turns out there are quite a lot of those. In fact, once you …
I Want To Paint It BLACK
Idit held her cards close to her chest. As the night of her B dinner approached, she subtly let on that between being very busy with work, and as only Bernhard and I joining herself and Oliver dear for dinner, she probably wonât go very thematic on it. This one will be low-key. So with …
Here we go AAAAgain…To… Angola?
Remember my declaration last time that this reboot of our Alphabetic dinners will be all about themes? Well, erm, not yet, as it turned out. We’re having Angolan food today! Dorottya is hosting, with her friend Val; Lianne is still up in Scotland, and Idit is too ill to attend đ Bernhard and I promised …
We’ve made it to Z!!!
And how fitting and serendipitous it is that we can complete our culinary world tour of the alphabet as the calendar year is drawing to a close. This one’s mine, and I chose New Zealand as our foodie destination (sadly without Lianne, who moved north to Scotland last month). I hope you will excuse the …
Xhosa: Parting is such sweet (and savoury) sorrow!
This is a bit of a sad one. Our cozy little Dinner Club family is shrinking… Lianne is moving to Scotland, and this is her farewell dinner. It almost didn’t happen – with the mammoth task of moving her entire life from east-London to an Edinburgh suburb, there was not much time or head-space left …
Yucatan. Coz Y not Mexico
Or: How to get away with doing Mexican again, without incurring the wrath of Dorottya. 23 June 2022 Yes, yes, we should be on X. But X is Lianne’s, and she is currently couch-surfing between homes, so Bernhard is doing Y first. And his mother is coming. And it’s her birthday. We’re gonna to have …
Who Framed the Welsh Rarebit?
Idit, March 21st 2022 Or: WE ATE WALES Because Idit found a list of traditional Welsh dishes on BBC Good Food – and cooked it. The whole bloomin’ lot. Here it is: Welsh Rarebit Glamorgan Sausage Bara Brith Lamb Cawl Conwy Mussels Leeks Tart Laverbread Crempogs Sewin and Samphire Salt Marsh Lamb No, I tell …
V for Vend… Oh, Vanuatu!
Dorottya, Feb 7th 2022 Vanuatu is a South Pacific Ocean nation made up of roughly 80 islands that stretch along 1,300 kilometres, with a population of a little over 307,000 people.It gained its independence in 1980 from France and Britain, who called it The New Hebrides, because they didnât have enough imagination to come up …