Friday we hosted, together with our partners, The Hunts, Book club dinner.  Our book was “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens.  We tried to bring it alive with lots of seafood and fun southern touches.  With our book club, husbands are included for the dinner, and we rotate partners after we’ve gone through three books.  There’s a total of six couples.  While I got a few “that doesn’t seem doable!” … I used a lot of things we already had.  Moving the clam shell out of the fireplace, to serve drinks.  It took some manpower, moving my house around, but we mostly used what we already had in our arsenal.  With a few fun personal touches – like the Charleston Cotton napkins, book club koozies from sequins and lipstick, Emily McCarthy low country napkins/cups, and oyster salt and pepper cellars.

Menu:

Appetizers-

Mussels in butter and garlic

Shrimp and cocktail sauce

bacon wrapped scallops

Main:

Shrimp and grits – grilled the shrimp, grits are adapted from this recipe (added in gruyere)

fresh caught mangrove snapper (that Kelly and her son caught the day before!)

corn salad 

Dessert:

Peach Cobbler

It was a fun night with great friends, that ended with lots of kitchen dancing!