Screen Doors and Sweet Tea Supper Club

The 500Jerk household hosted summer supper club this past weekend, with a festive southern menu drawn from Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, Martha Hall Foose's delightfully well-written and photographed cookbook.   Have you read this cookbook yet?  If not, take a gander; it's amusing, informative, and inspiring.   

Our menu was this:

Yazoo Cheese Straws

Inland Prawn Toasts with Jezebel Sauce

Bloodies with Pickled Snap Beans

Mahogany Glazed Game Birds

Apricot Rice Salad

Three-Day Slaw

Baked Macaroni and Cheese

Sweet Tea

Lemon Icebox Pie

Darkness on the Delta

We sent advance invitations proper-like. . . .

Mustered our inner hausfrau to put together a table under an arbor slung with twinkly lights. . . .

Then sat down together to feast.
   

The children even took a break from nonstop hide-and-seek to enjoy an early summer dinner outside.

It was warm but not too warm, and the crowd worked its ways through many bottles of wine and stayed until late in the evening (always a sign of a good time!). 

A pretty night.*

*After spying some flower arrangements at Knoxville's Farmers Market, I am newly enamored of wildflowers in repurposed soup cans.  Something about the airy, delicate flowers and shiny industrial cans is so appealing.  I foresee future summer dinner tables Chez 500Jerk adorned with this simple decoration.  Best of all, kids can easily create something beautiful on their own.