A new twist on Gourmet Lunch Groups
November 27, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Food & Nutrition
Guest author: Leslie McKee
McKee Organizing Services Inc.
Leslie used her Mom’s picture for the invitation!
I have been part of a gourmet lunch group for 12 years and we are all great friends and have basically been together through raising kids and taking care of parents and we clearly have nothing to prove in the cooking department! We have impressed the socks off each other for YEARS! This year I suggested that we just make something our mother’s made that we loved as kids. This idea has been the greatest because our mothers were having tons of fun and kept it simple. I served artichoke dip that had exactly 5 ingredients, that crab dip that is canned crabmeat over cream cheese and cocktail sauce and a cheese ball as appetizers and we all laughed because our mothers all made that stuff! I served Chicken Divan made with cream of chicken condensed can soup and minute rice and an apple pie for dessert. So easy, straight forward and familiar! I can’t wait to see what everyone else does! The best part is that we talked about our mom’s and families and learned new things, even after 12 years of lunches!
Image: Leslie McKee
Yes, lunch groups are great ways to get the girls together and enjoy good food at the same time. I’ve belonged to one with a twist for the past 12 years.
It is a group of ladies who yearn to learn Spanish. So only Spanish is allowed at the luncheon. It makes for lots of laugh as we stumble with our second language.
One of the ladies once ordered “camiones”. We all burst out laughing but the waiter kept a straight face as he wrote down her order for shrimp (”camerones”).
Then we told her she had just ordered trucks for lunch. LOL!
That’s a great story too, Jean!