Mardi Gras Supperclub!

Lots of great holidays and events have fallen on Tuesday in the past few months - Election Tuesday, Inauguration, and, of course Fat Tuesday! I was getting back from a training in Dallas last Tuesday evening, so Mary hosted Mardi Gras at her place. I got there around 9:45 and things were still hopping - had some great Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, bacon-y Greens, Rice... and Bananas Foster for dessert.

It's great when time changes due to travel let you eat extra meals!

Also, Leroy hooked up his laptop and shared a lot of great cajun and zydeco - which meant that we needed to dance, of course!

Mary or Leroy, if you have any recipes that are post-able, please do so...

I [heart] Supperclub!

The Tuesday after Valentine's Day was a classic Supperclub experience - and reminds me of why this has been such a wonderful weekly event! There were a lot of people in my little bungalow - more than really fit around the table (11? 12?) - but it was ok because a lot of the action was taking place all evening in the kitchen...

The Menu:

Pizza - homemade, with various toppings (the recipe is linked to the left - in it's prototypical Prosciutto and Arugula format)

Salad - arugula with dried cherries, red onions and toasted pecans, with a balsamic vinaigrette

Chocolate Pudding (found in Best Recipes)

Chocolate Torte (a heavenly torte with meringue and cake layers - Heidi, can you post the recipe?)

Everyone had a hand in creating a pizza - see the photos below for some sense of the process:

... and in making dessert...