Fantastic dinner, Jessie. The clams and pasta were crazy-yums, but I think the marscapone custard took the cake, so to speak. Definitely a recipe worth repeating.

I added the transcript of our chat with Pete from the April 12 dinner club meeting at my place.

Click here or find it in the quotes section.

Hey Everyone - Dinner Club at my place this Friday. We'll plan on a late start for the meal (8:30-9pm) so everyone can make it. Please come on over anytime after 7pm for appetizers and wine if you're available. Possible guests: Ben and Katie. See you there.

I'm up for something on Friday. Who'd cook? If no DC, an evening out sounds grand.

Hey all - what's up with this weekend? I remember talking about maybe having a DC meeting on Friday, or did that fall apart? If no DC, are you all up for going out?

My bad. All better.

Awesome job here Nick! I have a little correction to make in regards to the aversions page... I have nothing against peas. In fact, I love peas. I have a pea-shrine in my sun room. I had some pea soup once (NOT made by a dinner club member) that was pretty nasty, but unadulterated peas are a thing of beauty (especially those early season pea pods.... yum).

OK, the menu --> recipe links are up.

If there's no link for an item, or if it links to the wrong place, then it probably means that I don't have the recipes.

So, email them to me again (sorry...) if you want it up.

I added a new feature -- menus from each of the dinner clubs since August 2001. Coming soon, links directly to the recipes from the menus.

Hey DC,
Nick, thanks for the invite. Thanks to whoever came up with this idea... sweet! I am sitting at an internet cafe in Bodrum, Turkey. Supposed to be a huge party town, but so far we ain't found no party. Josh was really excited about finding "hotties" and I'm afraid he's been disappointed thus far. Cool castle and marina with lots of large, little-used boats. The weather has been nice lately, but now that we're looking for some serious beach time it has rained the last two days. Postcards are en route for all. I will probably be home around May 7th due to the Israeli/palestinian thing so count me in (and Nikki) for May 11th! See you all soon. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the graduation/post graduation events.
Sincerely
"Good" Lister

Thanks Rim Zim.

I'll work on building up the site a bit:
- adding in the actual menus
- links from the menus to the recipes (which requires that I sort the recipes)
- wine list
- quotes
- food aversions
- other comments from The Book

cheers.

Nick- you have completely outdone the dinner clubbers. beef tenderloin was delicious... dessert was extremely sinful. Next DC at my place... may 11th. Will need all this time to plan a most fantabulous dinner. be aware of the torch (my new toy).

I was watching Oprah (it was a show about severely overweight women who were totally happy with their bodies - I didn't know if it should make me feel good or bad when I think about being a gluton tonight at Nick's DC) when I suddenly realized that the reason the lady being interviewed looked familiar was that I'd actually seen the show before. I'll see y'all soon!

got the currants from mifflin. success!

the guy at the register looked familiar, and sure enough he said "you look familiar" when I paid. what followed was an uncomfortable 3 minutes of chit-chat with no results. learned nothing except that his name is john.

COOL! I forwarded those recipes to your e-mail. I'm hungry already...

hmm. maybe "contra-vegan." there's nothing in the menu that a vegan can eat. it's not going to be the lightest dinner, either.

jessie tells me that you think mifflin st. co-op has dried currants. thanks for the tip ... i'll check it out.

Is there a theme to Friday's gathering, Nick?

Hey gang. Look what I found. A web site all for us.

The links don't work yet, but I'll fix that soon enough.

In the meantime...

Dinner Club at my place this Friday at 7:30. Jaime, bring the Book so I can fill out some of this web site and keep the hope alive.