[Sca-cooks] OOP - Julia & Us party

[Elaine Koogler]

Sounds wonderful...wish I could have been there!

Kiri

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Kingstaste <kingstaste at comcast.net> wrote:

> Our Culinary Historians group had a gathering yesterday and I just posted a
> write-up about it to that group list so I thought I would share it here,
> too.
>
> Christianna
>
>
>
> What a wonderful day it was yesterday!  The weather was absolutely
> gorgeous!
>
>
> Several of us met at the theater for a showing of Julie & Julia, which was
> so good!  It was my second viewing, and I have to admit I spent a lot of it
> tearing up, Julia Child has meant a great deal to me over my life, and the
> character of Julie (while being a great deal more neurotic than I am)
> definitely shared a lot of that feeling for me.  Meryl Streep is absolutely
> amazing as Julia Child.  If you haven’t gotten a chance to see this movie
> yet, I highly recommend it.  Put it on your Netflix queue if you have to –
> but see it!
>
> Afterwards, 7 of us gathered at the Bush home for an amazing spread of
> foods.  Nancy and Greg, so sorry you missed the party, but thank you for
> your calls and emails to let me know you couldn’t get there.    For the
> rest
> of you that missed it, what a shame!
>
> Our party food menu ended up including:
>
>            Supremes (chicken breasts) sautéed in butter and finished with a
> red wine reduction
>
>            Southern Collard Greens without Grit
>
>            Mousse du Jambon (ham mousse)
>
>            Oeufs en Gelee (poached quail eggs in a tarragon vegetable
> aspic)
>
>            Pommes de Terre a L'Huile (French Potato Salad)
>
> Cucumber Vichyssoise
>
> French Cheeses and Baguettes
>
> Cherry Clafoutis
>
> Reine de Saba (Chocolate & almond cake)
>
> Champagne, coffee, and Goldfish crackers (Julia loved them, you know!)
>
>
>
> We had tapes of The French Chef playing in the background, which were
> wonderful to watch and chat over.  Millie graced us with stories of her
> interactions with Julia at writer’s conferences, and specifically their
> conversations over Southern Greens and how to get the grit out!  As for my
> aspics, well, it seems you either love them or hate them, but I thought
> they
> were wonderful.  :-)  And Tonia’s first-ever cake made from scratch – OMG –
> that cake was SOOO delicious!
>
> Thanks again to Emilie for opening your home up for us, and to Tony who
> took
> the little girls to Dave & Buster’s for the afternoon to give us ‘grown-up
> time’ at the house!  It was good to see those of you who could make it, and
> to those that didn’t, know that we celebrated in fine Culinary Historian
> style!  I took a few pictures and so did Carlin, so we can post what we got
> to the Photo Album for our Events, but folks descended on the food so fast
> we didn’t really get a chance to get a good picture of the pretty platters
> in a ‘before’ shot.  I did get pics of people eating while watching Julia
> truss a chicken though.  LOL
>
> Thanks to everyone that came out, and we’ll look forward to seeing you at
> the next gathering, whatever that may be!
>
> Christy
>
>
>
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