Dog Parties or Menus from an Orchard Table

Dog Parties: Entertaining Your Party Animals

Author: Kimberly Schlegel Whitman

A few years ago, author Kimberly Schlegel Whitman hosted a garden party for her Chihuahua, Lola, and her friends. That fabulous celebration of the unique bond between humans and dogs brought so much happiness to both the dogs and their owners that dog parties have become a regular part of their lives.

Party Animals is filled with the glamour, glitz, and more fun than you can throw a stick at:

Winston, Lulu and Snoop dress in their costumes and dig about a Halloween graveyard haunted with ghosts and goblins.

CoCo the Pomeranian stole the show in her leather jacket, boots and sunglasses at an art gallery soiree where all the paintings were of dogs.

Princess the Chihuahua and Sweet Baboo the Tibetan terrier are the bride and groom at a wedding party complete with bridesmaids, groomsmen, and decorated cakes.

In Party Animals, you'll find plenty of ideas for hosting events for your own pooch, including a puppy shower for an expectant mother, a backyard "spaw" party for a bit of pet pampering, and a nationality theme parties to celebrate your dog's country of origin.

Here are party ideas and inspirations for spreading the love and licks. The bond between humans and dogs is truly something to celebrate!

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Menus from an Orchard Table: Celebrating the Food and Wine of the Okanagan

Author: Heidi Nobl

Recipes to enjoy under an open sky.

Fresh from the Okanagan Valley comes Menus for an Orchard Table, a collection of outstanding seasonal recipes from Joie Wines and Farm Cooking School's renowned outdoor orchard dinners. The classes here are sell-outs, with people traveling great distances to sit at a table in Joie's orchard.

Menus for an Orchard Table allows readers to re-create some of Joie's most extraordinary dishes, with essays on the Okanagan's wine country cuisine. The recipes are divided into the courses served at Joie's orchard dinners, which balance regional wines with the accompanying dishes. Among the selections:

• Chilled heirloom yellow tomato soup garnished with tomato confit and chive oil


• Country lamb and olive terrine with Joie pear and shallot compote and brioche


• Carmelis' goat yogurt cheese tart with dried cherries


• Claybank Farm lavender ice cream


• Similkameen Apiary honey Madeleines.

Menus for an Orchard Table will transport readers to Joie's magical outdoor dining table.

Table of Contents:

Foreword

by Sinclair Philip, Leader - Slow Food Canada


Introduction

• Our Story


• The Birth of a Cuisine


• The Evolution of a Cuisine


• From Cultural Intimacy Grows Local Cuisine


• The Evolution of an Okanagan Cuisine and Where It Fits into the Maturity of a West Coast Cuisine


• A (Very) Short History of the BC Wine Industry


• BC Wine Country's Time to Shine (and Dine)

An Anthology of Orchard Dinner Menus (2003-2005)

• Joie, Year One: The First Orchard Dinners


• Joie, Year Two: Sold Out!


• More Angel Chefs with No Fixed Address: My Summer with Jason Schubert


• Epilogue

In Acknowledgement of Our Producers

Recipes

• Cold Soups (6 recipes)


• Hot Soups (13 recipes)


• First Courses and Composed Salads (27 recipes)


• Main Courses (26 recipes)


• Sides (24 recipes)


• Desserts (29 recipes)


• Petits Fours (10 recipes)

Acknowledgements

Index