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Pumpkin Anyone?
The cooking club officially kicked off last night at my flat with a total of 11 members, all of us being young (might I add delightful) females living in San Francisco. Since we had not all met each other before, we got acquainted over some candy corn martinis and Lo’s amazing baked brie.
Back to the candy corn martinis… Stephanie found this creative recipe somewhere and we decided to try it out, after all it is Halloween right? The night before the day of the meeting we dropped about 1 and a half cups of candy corn pieces into a handle of vodka (and ate an additional cup to ourselves in the process) and let it sit overnight. The next morning we eagerly ran to the kitchen to discover a handle of orange vodka and no trace of candy corn. It was that easy! Mix 4 shots with 2 shots of triple sec and the juice of half a lemon and there you have it.
Moving on to the food. The delicious food. This club was one of the best ideas we have ever had, all because of the food. These girls can definitely cook! I decided to make butternut squash risotto, which is pictured below. Thank you Ina!
Because Halloween is just around the corner, we all made something that could fit into that theme… let me tell you, these girls can get creative. We had our very own Katherine make a dinner in a pumpkin! She is amazing and actually started her own catering company last year called Evolution Catering, check out her blog here.
And last but not least we obviously always make sure to be covered on the dessert front. There were 3 amazing desserts: pumpkin cheesecake, ice cream candy corn cups, and a “pot of dirt” pie. I’m sure you can guess which one I have pictured here (good job Julz!)
As we concluded our meeting and polished off our martinis, we got into the discussion of what our club name should be. We had all been talking about what it would be like to be a house wife throughout the night. Of course all of the accountants were throwing around comments about how our plan should be to stop working as soon as possible and be a house wife who cooks all day. The result of this joking (well, kind of joking), we came up with “The (Future) Housewives of San Francisco.” Just like the show, except without the plastic surgery and bitches.
Next month we are all planning to make something along the lines of a Thanksgiving dish. Either we will all be utterly stuffed and unable to make it home, asleep by 9 from too much turkey, or all of the above. Until then, happy cooking!
