← Kitchen Club

2024

7 dinners

Dinner 01 Sat, Feb 17, 2024

Southern Comfort Food

Hosted by Alessandra

Main dish — Southern Comfort Food
On the plate
The club — Southern Comfort Food
The club

Cocktail

  • Mint juleps

Appetizers

  • Edina — Tomato tart

Soup

  • Isabela — Butternut squash soup

Main

  • Alessandra host — Salisbury steak

Sides

  • Jana — Southern mashed potatoes
  • Juliana — Caramelized carrots & green beans
  • Ana (remote) — Korean japchae

Dessert

  • Monica — Hummingbird cake
Dinner 02 Fri, Mar 15, 2024

European winter-warming food (Czech duck & dumplings)

Hosted by Jana

Main dish — European winter-warming food (Czech duck & dumplings)
On the plate
The club — European winter-warming food (Czech duck & dumplings)
The club

Cocktail

  • Jana — Metamorphosis cocktail

Appetizers

  • Edina — Baba ganoush over crostini
  • Monica — Horseradish whipped-cream ham rolls (or any European appetizer)

Soup

  • Amanda — Light European vegetable or chicken soup (she made red bell pepper soup)

Main

  • Jana host — Czech baked duck with dumplings

Sides

  • Alessandra — White cabbage
  • Juliana — Red cabbage

Dessert

  • Isabela — Dessert, her pick

Drinks

  • San Pellegrino mineral water · espresso · German & Czech beer · wine (BYO)
Dinner 03 Fri, Apr 19, 2024

Creole / New Orleans (masquerade — Mardi Gras masks)

Hosted by Monica

Main dish — Creole / New Orleans (masquerade — Mardi Gras masks)
On the plate
The club — Creole / New Orleans (masquerade — Mardi Gras masks)
The club

Appetizers

  • Juliana — Deviled eggs
  • Jana — Cajun mini crab cakes

Soup

  • Edina — Shrimp gumbo with okra

Main

  • Monica host — Jambalaya

Sides

  • Alessandra — Broccoli casserole (New Orleans style)
  • Isabela — Maque choux

Dessert

  • Amanda — Bread pudding
Dinner 04 Thu, May 23, 2024

Hors d'oeuvre

Hosted by Edina

Main dish — Hors d'oeuvre
On the plate
The club — Hors d'oeuvre
The club

Appetizers

Soup

Main

  • Edina host — Dutch potato bites + meatballs in sauce

Dessert

Dinner 05 Fri, Jun 21, 2024

Central-West Brazilian (chicken & pequi)

Hosted by Isabela

Main dish — Central-West Brazilian (chicken & pequi)
On the plate
The club — Central-West Brazilian (chicken & pequi)
The club

Appetizers

Main

  • Isabela host — Chicken with pequi + white rice

Sides

  • Edina — Shepherd's pie ("escondidinho de carne seca")
  • Alessandra — Purple hull peas · theanthonykitchen.com↗
  • Amanda — Purple hull peas (reassigned — originally cheese curds wrapped in prosciutto with date syrup)

Dessert

  • Juliana — Guava pavê (Belgian cream topped with guava paste)
Dinner 06 Fri, Aug 2, 2024 (6 pm)

Summer Farm to Table

Hosted by Amanda

Main dish — Summer Farm to Table
On the plate
The club — Summer Farm to Table
The club

Appetizers

  • Jana — Peach-and-tomato salad with buttermilk-herb dressing (her "first ever crumbled bacon") · southernliving.com↗

Main

  • Amanda host — Locally-sourced chicken

Sides

  • Alessandra — Sheet-pan squash casserole (the baked veggies)
  • Juliana — Creamed spinach and mushrooms (Cooking Light)

Dessert

  • Edina — Flan (her signature recipe, made with fresh eggs)
Dinner 07 Sep 20–21, 2024

Seafood

Hosted by Juliana

Main dish — Seafood
On the plate
The club — Seafood
The club

Appetizers

  • Edina — Mini crab cakes

Soup

  • Monica — Crab bisque

Main

  • Juliana host — Fish moqueca (moqueca baiana — Brazilian fish stew) · globalfoodbook.com

Sides

Dessert