Cookbook Club Woodland Dream Dinner

It is time for another 

Cookbook Club post.

I have a lot to catch up on, 

but this is our latest.  

We figured it out that we 

have been gathering for 

two and a half years now, 

almost monthly.

The group was started by 

my niece and includes another 

niece, my daugher-in-law and 

my daughter's niece.  We 

all love to cook and we love 

to try new dishes.  I have to 

add that the husbands are 

always jealous and sometimes 

we let them join. 

Tonight we had my daugher 

in law's sister join us - the 

one with the floral headpiece.

L-R, my niece that started all 

of the fun, my DIL's sister, my 

DIL, my daughter's niece, 

another niece and me. 

We have had a few drop out 

and once in a while my 

daughter will join us.

The table was set up down 

in our wooded area, called 

The Hollow.  We brought 

our gazebo from our old 

house and this is the first 

dinner party we have had 

down here. 

For our Cookbook Club 

the hostess picks a theme.  

It ranges from any theme 

to a blog or cookbook, 

really anything we are 

inspired by. 

My niece and I worked on 

this one together.  She lives 

right by us.  She is a 

graphic designer so she 

creates our invitations.

Right away we start sharing 

what we think we might want 

to make, so that we have a 

complete dinner.  I chose to 

make this Fairy Pavlova. 

I started to scour through 

everything I owned to create 

the mood.  I have lots of 

flowers in the garden so 

I arranged those.  

The fall fairies came out 

to play too.  

White plates with gold leaves 

were perfect for the theme. 

The napkin has gold touches 

along with the napkin ring 

and I tucked in some fresh 

herbs.  The herbs really made 

the table smell nice. 

We used wood rounds and 

moss rounds and threw in 

a few mini pumpkins. 

My one niece made this 

Crispy Rice Chicken Salad. 

Another niece made this pesto 

pasta topped with Burrata.  

The pesto was so unique as 

it had peas blended into it. 

My daughter in law made 

sourdough focaccia sandwiches.

I made some passion fruit 

sauce to serve on the pavlova.

We also had these beautiful 

and delicious nectarine 

capreses.

Everything was amazingly 

delicious and beautiful.

And of course, knowing us, 

we had an additional 

dessert.  These blackberry 

mousses were so gorgeous and 

they tasted just as great.  She 

ordered the dried edible 

pansies off the internet.  

I will look forward to sharing 

some of my earlier Cookbook 

Club posts.  We decided we 

need to put together a book 

to remember them by.  That 

also makes us more aware 

of the fact that we need to 

take pictures of everything, 

including ourselves!!

Thanks for visiting.  

I will share this on 

Tablescapes Thursday

and 

Love Your Creativity