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I've been part of a small supper club full of serious foodies for three years now, and it's so much fun! We rotate the hosting every month; the host is responsible for choosing a theme for the dinner and making the main course, and the other couples provide the first course, side dishes, and dessert. Everyone also brings something to drink to accompany their course. We make a couple of exceptions to the norm each year and do either a family dinner (where we start earlier in the evening and include all of our kids) or go out together to a restaurant.

While we've done a lot of very interesting themes (Georgian food anyone? the country, not the state), we keep coming back to the Sunday Suppers at Lucques cookbook (see salad above). When Seth and I lived in LA we ate at Lucques more often than we could afford to; after we moved to Denver I stalked the publication of Suzanne Goin's cookbook and bought it as soon as it came out. Now we've converted our friends and everyone in our supper club has bought their own copy! It's full of seriously time-consuming dishes with ingredients that are sometimes hard to find, but every minute spent cooking something from this book is worth it. Trust me!