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Dinner Party On!

Friday, October 09, 2009
(<a href="http://oneasskitchen.blogspot.com/">Crab Dinner</a>/The Sunday Night Dinner)
(Crab Dinner/The Sunday Night Dinner)


Tamara Reynolds and Zora O'Neill , two food bloggers who run a Queens dining club, "The Sunday Night Dinner", discuss their new book, Forking Fantastic!: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party.

Tamara's blog, "The Sunday Night Dinner"
Zora's blog, "Roving Gastronome"


Comments

  • [1] Danny from Brooklyn October 09, 2009 - 10:19AM

    Dinner Party as a topic Really! But anyway a nice dinner party ahh the foods the um... foods and uh guu dou..........THE FOODS!!!!


  • [2] Frances from NYC October 09, 2009 - 11:44AM

    Oooooh I've heard of these ladies; how do we get on dinner invite list?


  • [3] Frances Batt from NYC October 09, 2009 - 11:47AM

    Ooooh I've heard of these ladies, please tell how do you get on dinner invite list!


  • [4] Betty Anne from UES October 09, 2009 - 11:51AM

    I use the Ina Garten golden rule for cooking for people. Make only 3 very GOOD things. This always works and it is really less stressful.

    Also potlucks are awesome!!!


  • [5] Nancy from NYC October 09, 2009 - 11:52AM

    Would love to hear your guests' suggestion on how I could do dinner parties in my 200 square foot apartment!


  • [6] Betty Anne from UES October 09, 2009 - 11:52AM

    Oh and one more thing I throw together a quick fabulous Sangria.

    1 Bottle of any red wine.

    1/2 Chopped fruit in Brandy.

    1/2 cup 7up.

    1/2 Orange Juice

    1/2 Other fruit Juice.

    Serve over ice.


  • [7] Betty Anne from UES October 09, 2009 - 11:53AM

    Oh and one more thing I throw together a quick fabulous Sangria.

    1 Bottle of any red wine.

    1/2 Chopped fruit in Brandy.

    1/2 cup 7up.

    1/2 Orange Juice

    1/2 Other fruit Juice.

    Serve over ice.


  • [8] John from Bergen County NJ October 09, 2009 - 11:53AM

    an Ice breaker - famous person on back you get 3 guesses

    guest bingo.

    A round table. Everyone can see each other.

    you should know 65% of the people attending.


  • [9] Liza October 09, 2009 - 11:54AM

    These chicks are kind of high on themselves.

    I lived in a co-op in college and we did dirty stuff like drink out of jars. I am over it!


  • [10] Robert from NYC October 09, 2009 - 12:05PM

    I have dinner parties because I love to cook. Small kitchen, nice size living room and NEVER paper plates. China, I bought the 12 serving set many years ago from Macy's really cheap ($300?) and that's what I use because why save it!! Not silverware but good flatware set. We have fun and NEVER polyester or blend napkins either cotton or linen (on sale very cheap) I use to seek out bargains and used to buy buy buy when I had money and a job a hundred years ago. Do it guys it's fun you'll feel good... after you've done the dishes. My guests never do the dishes or anything they come and I insist on just serving them. It's their night out.


  • [11] Jaime from Village October 09, 2009 - 12:20PM

    These ladies really know how to throw a knock-out dinner party. I have attended several of their tasty, memorable, festive, life-affirming events. They aren't particularly high on themselves, but I am certainly high on them.


  • [12] Elizabeth O'Connor from Woodside, Queens October 09, 2009 - 12:30PM

    Being a return guest at Sunday Night Dinners in Astoria, I can verify what a great party it is! Funny enough, I learned about the girls while listening to a 2007 Brian Lehrer podcast about underground dinner parties. I contacted them via e-mail immediately. Within 2 weeks, I was sitting in a backyard garden at a gorgeous table, eclectically decorated with beautiful mix-matched cutlery and plates and cloth dinner napkins. The dishes were amazing and kept on coming. I still rave about it to friends. It was the exact community boost I needed in a city that so often forgets to get together with friends for these types of gatherings. They are such great hosts and the food is to die for. So grateful that these types of folks exist and share their homes and talents with us.


  • [13] mark from Brooklyn October 09, 2009 - 12:53PM

    "Have a nice night, even if you are dining alone," Brian signed off. Really, "even" if alone? Thanks.


  • [14] Zora from Astoria, Queens October 09, 2009 - 03:49PM

    Oh! We forgot to mention: We'll be signing books at Word in Greenpoint on Sunday night, 6 pm. Potluck food and lots of wine, to sweeten the deal... More info here:

    http://wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com/events/


  • [15] tom f. from brooklyn October 11, 2009 - 10:12AM

    So refreshing and inspiring. down with the martha stewart/masa-boulud-bernardin tyranny. It's just a retail-restaurant complex that drives consumption and really doesn't have anything to do with eating and socializing.

    Zora and Tamara are great!


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