Happy Anniversary Dinner Club!

A Celebratory Bottle

Eight years ago today, six friends met (some for the first time) in a basement kitchen in Madison, Wisconsin for the first official* meal of what was to become the Madison Dinner Club. To commemorate this momentous event, Nick and I decided to pull out the recipes from that very first meal and make one of them for dinner. Anna hosted that night in 2001, and as usual her recipes were seasonal and delicious...eggplant moussaka, sweet corn and red pepper soup, never fail popovers, and blueberry cobbler. We decided to make the sweet corn and roasted red pepper soup, and, as I'm sure Anna did, we picked up our corn and peppers at the farmers' market.


Corn and Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Cuban-Spiced Pork Chops

We had also picked up some pork chops at the farmers' market and grilled them up along with the soup. And, in true celebratory fashion, we cracked open our last bottle of New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red, an extremely fitting and perfectly paired way to mark this special occasion.


Cheers!

Dinner Club Forever!

*This was the first meal with all six members present. An earlier meal with four of six did occur, but can't be called official due to lack of a quorum.