First 2008 Gourmet Club Meal

Saturday night was our first gourmet club meal of the 2008 season. This year, our 17th, it was our turn to be first and we only had about 3 weeks time to get things decided from when we assigned dates to everyone. Sometimes this can be difficult but the nice part is your turn is out of the way and you can coast for the rest of the year.

The Gourmets – Doug Beach, Lynne Carlson, John and Sue Hawn,
Karen Thorpe, Terri and Steve Howes, and Butchie Boy (Robert Thorpe)

The Menu

Here is how our table looked…

The Presentation

When we made this cake we needed to have two spring-form pans for the cake part. We only have one so we borrowed others from the gourmets. Try as we may, all the spring-form pans were of different sizes. So we made the bottom layer a little larger and the top layer tiered in a little. We compensated by filling in the gap with the pudding topping. We kept the cake well chilled and I applied the whipped cream florets and raspberries and put it by to stay cold. It still started to warm and shortly after this picture was taken, about an eighth of the top egde slumped to the plate below. At least I got a picture in all its beauty.