{"id":143,"date":"2010-02-13T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-02-14T17:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T22:11:52","slug":"from-russia-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"From Russia With Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff, Royce, and I fixed dinner last night for our reading group, 18 people.  Our reading group meets once a month.  Each month has a topic and everyone brings something related to the topic to read.   This year we decided to cook a meal for the group in conjunction with Valentine&#8217;s Day.  The reading theme was &#8220;From Russia with Love&#8221; and  we did a Russian themed meal.<\/p>\n<p>We went all out with a 5 course meal of appetizers, soup, salad, main, and dessert.  Debbie did elegant hand-lettered menus in Cyrillic.  Here&#8217;s the menu in plain text:  <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/russian-menu.pdf\" title=\"Menu\">Menu.<\/a><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-005.jpg\" title=\"Russian deviled eggs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-005.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-006.jpg\" title=\"Four kinds of caviar\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-006.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"6\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-007.jpg\" title=\"Caviar tartlets\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-007.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-008.jpg\" title=\"Red cabbage and marinated mushrooms\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-008.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"8\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-009.jpg\" title=\"Georgian Bean Salad\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-009.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-010.jpg\" title=\"Menu and shot glasses\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-010.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-012.jpg\" title=\"The Elegant Table\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-012.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"12\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-014.jpg\" title=\"Jeff's bar\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-014.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"14\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-016.jpg\" title=\"Mushroom tarts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-016.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-018.jpg\" title=\"Armenian cheese rolls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-018.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"18\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-019.jpg\" title=\"Jeff, Royce, and Chuck\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-019.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"19\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-022.jpg\" title=\"Deb in hat\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-022.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"22\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-023.jpg\" title=\"Appetizer plate\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-023.jpg\" title=\"23\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-023.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"23\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-025.jpg\" title=\"Happy diners\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-025.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-026.jpg\" title=\"Happy diners\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-026.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"26\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-030.jpg\" title=\"Deb, Deena, Sally, Judy, Deb, Ava\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-030.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all been cooking for a while, including big events like this one.  An article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/articles\/supper-club-confidential\">November 2009 Food &#038; Wine<\/a> magazine about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefourcoursemen.com\/?page_id=2\">Four Coursemen<\/a> has got us thinking about the possibilities of starting an underground supper club right here in the frozen wilds of northeastern Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff, Royce, and I fixed dinner last night for our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}