I'm hosting bookgroup tonight.
I have a fun afternoon of cooking planned. I've recruited JJ to help me (It will help work off his punishment for his grades). The book had a Japanese/baseball theme
The menu I've planned is:
Bleu chees/bacon corn dogs
Roasted spicey nuts
Baked onion dip
Wrapped asparagus
Egg rolls
Desserts:
Lime cheesecake
Pumpkin Creamcheese muffins
Raspberry filled chocolate cake
Oh, and a sparkling peach punch.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the corn dogs (new recipe) and the muffins.
8 comments:
Japanese/baseball theme? Was it good.
Have fun. It's good you have a helper.
this is why i don't join a bookgroup. i don't like people coming to my house and by the time i'd get done all the cooking and cleaning, i'd be too pissy and tired to appreciate having friends over to talk about a book, and on top of it, if i hated a book, i'd probably go postal. plus, i HATE the petty social competition of the "who makes the best food" and 'whose house was prettier/neater" etc. i'm not an overly competitive person, and i find women to be real bitches when it comes to domestic stuff. i'm not saing you are, but i find women in general are. damn, one wrong word from a soccer mom or a stepford wife and someone would be wearing some food item home. in short, i'm not the hostess type, and to be in a bookgroup, you have to be a hostess type person.
jilly
Sounds really, really delicious! I loved corn dogs (or corny dogs, as we called them in Texas, when I was a kid. I still like 'em, too. How many people are in the group? Hope they come hungry!
I belong to two book clubs. One is the normal book club, where we all read a selected book each month and discuss it as a group, and the other (which I private call the Dingbat Club because there are all kinds of loony old bags in it) is kind of a different approach to a book club. We all read whatever we want, and then we haul in a tote bag full of books each month that we want to share. We go around the circle and review what we've read, then we trade books. There are a few ladies who only like bodice-ripper style romance, and will actually put a post-it on the pages with the steamy sex scenes to make them easier to find! They just kill me, because they're the most grandmotherly looking little old ladies you'd ever meet. One lady only likes history and biography (she can't even get the sex ladies to read her books.) It's really quite a hoot.
Both groups meet mid-day and serve lunch, but there's not much pressure. The normal book club has what we call a salad bar lunch. The hostess provides a big bowl of greens, bread or rolls and assorted dressings. Everyone else brings a salad topping, or a pasta salad or tuna salad or something. It makes it REALLY easy to host that group.
The Dingbat Club has finger foods and desserts, but no theme foods. Some people hate to cook and serve Costco stuff on paper plates, and other people go all out and cook for days beforehand, and bust out the china and sterling.
(Yikes--this was the world's longest comment. Sorry!)
your menu sounds delightful!
those pumpkin creamcheese thingies wouldn't last too long around me!
yum!
Sounds great!
So . . . how was everything?
I'm dying to know about the corn dog things.
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