Cooking Light wants to know!

[Maelynn Cheung]

We'd all love to think we're Martha Stewart (well, some of us anyway), but face it even the best laid plans hit snags occasionally. That's what we want to hear about--those snafus or light hearted moments that your supper club experienced........moments where we can laugh at ourselves. Any romantic stories? Embarrassing moments? Tell all! Inquiring minds want to know...

Maelynn Cheung
Editor, CookingLight.com

[AvrilH]

Sigh. We've met twice and I have two screw ups to confess!

On night one I made dessert - CL's Irish bread pudding with Caramel-whiskey sauce. I was rushed making the sauce, and I could NOT get the cream cheese to completely melt. So I planned to work on it when we got to the hostess's home. Still no luck, and I felt too stupid to ask for a sieve. So we had lumpy sauce.

Night two was at our house, and I made a roast beef tenderloin. I had planned my cooking times and scheduled myself to the minute. However, I isread the recipe for the tenderloin. It said "preheat to 350"-- which was only the temperature for roasting the garlic first. Later on, the recipe said "preheat to 400". Sigh. I figured that out a bit late. The tenderloin took a wee bit of extra time, while everyone sat at the table digesting their salad.

Did I mention the other member of our club is a professional cook? Sigh. I swear for the next night, and am starting 12 hours in advance and will re-read every recipe 5 times.

[BeckyM]

We've only been meeting since November, and so far we haven't had any major catastrophes. But we have another dinner coming up on the 25th of April, so we'll definitely post it here if there's anything to report!

[kwormann]

I dont know how bad it was, but it was kind of bad to me. The first meeting was at my house and it was a brunch. I was making the SW egg casserole from (I think) the make-ahead issue. It wouldnt cook. The middle wouldnt get done, but the ends were. We finally cut off the ends and put the middle in the microwave. I told you it wasnt BAD< just seemed like it because of it being the first time we were together and not knowing each other! We have only met a few times, so Im sure this will happen more (and believe me...Martha Stewart I aint!!!!) http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

Kim

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[mstewart]

My worst supper club experience....
Late last summer was my first time as hostess for our local supper club here in San Jose, CA. I had a great menu all planned out. What I didn't plan for was for the unusual 90 degree heat wave we had that day and the full group of 9 people crammed in my kitchen cooking over hot stoves in a house with NO air conditioning! UGH!
http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/redface.gif Needless to say, the wonderful Sparkling Custard we made took twice as long to cook (I still don't know why) and we had to make 2 batches.

We had a great time when we all finally sat down to enjoy the meal. The biggest compliment of the evening actually turned out to be for the chilled Sparkling Custard which took so long to make, but was well worth it on that hot evening.

Happy Cooking!

Lesson for next time: Offer to host on a cooler day!


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[Eli]

Our Annapolis supper club decided to try almost all of the cheesecakes in one of the issues this year. I decided to make the banana split one. Unfortunately, I didn't leave enough time to make the cheesecake and let it get cold and set before the party. So, I made the cheesecake and stuck it in the freezer for a half-hour before I left for the party, then on the way to the party I put the cheesecake on the floor of my car, cranked up the air conditioner and drove to the party - freezing my feet more than the cheesecake I think.

At any rate, it wasn't a complete disaster since we ate dinner first but it sure was close!