So Adam and I were invited to our first progressive dinner Friday night. The Doc I work with “won” it at a silent auction put on by a local church. The dinner was for six so the three of us providers and our spouses went.
I had never been to one before, in fact…none of us had but boy were we in for a treat! We started at one home where we had different wines and hors d’oeuvres to die for!
We then went to another home for the meal. The house was awesome because it is old like ours with a ton of charm. In other words, our house envies this house and wants to be like this house someday. The dining table was gorgeous. All done in black, gold and crystal. Gorgeous china and silver. It reminded me of that scene in the movie Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts was trying to learn which fork goes with what, etc…
Using a silver tong they handed us hot wet towels to “freshen” up with when we first sat down and then we were promptly served wine and our first course. Menus were waiting for us and the meal was considered international.
The first course included two foods: bruchetta from Italy and gazpacho from Spain. The gazpacho was amazzzzzzing. It was a tomato-like soup with lots of veggies in it….but it was cold. On purpose, of course. It weirded Adam out but it was soooo soooo good and how cool is that anyway: a cold soup during the summertime!
The second course was a spinach & feta sald from Corsica…also very yummy.
The third couse included souvlaki from Greece (very good: lamb and chicken), guacamole y camarones from Mexico and basmati rice curry from Thailand. All sooo good.
Have I mentioned how good this all was yet?!
To “cleanse our palate” we had lemon sorbet from France.
For dessert we had mousse au chocolat in a home-made crust from Belgium. To. Die. For! Followed by Irish coffee from Ireland.
They then brought out cognac in these little fancy crystal glasses that I guess are called cordial glasses. Supposedly you are supposed to “sip” this type of a drink. Adam and Steven drank theirs in one gulp. It wasn’t bad actually…very potent stuff though as I noticed an hour later I was still feeling a little hot!
Anyways, it was amazing and we thank Doc for winning the auction and inviting us along and the persons who did the cooking~wow! Father Dunavan, CJ Lamb and Steve & Kathy Mercure are AWESOME! I am happy to say, too, that although it was by far the fanciest dinner that any of us had probably every had I think we handled it pretty well. No one passed gas, we seemed to all use the correct silverware at the right time, there was no profanity said at the dinner table, we all had our napkins on our laps, etc…Overall, not a bad bunch I tell ya!
Hmmmmm, maybe Doc will win the dinner this year at the auction again….