February was my month for hosting Supper Club! Last Thursday we had 9 girls around my dining room table chowing down on tacos, passing many bottles of wine late into the night and laughing until our full bellies hurt. Such good memories were made with truly amazing friends. I am so lucky.
On Wednesday I began my Supper Club preparations. I set the table, prepped as much of the food as possible, cleaned the house and hid all of the baby stuff to get ready. Our dinner date happened to land just a few days after Valentine’s Day so I was able to score 4 bouquets of flowers on sale for $4 each (originally $16 each) for my dining table.
One of the most important things to me about hosting guests is not being stuck in the kitchen cooking and cleaning, but instead actually enjoying my party! So to keep things simple and to make for easy clean up I ordered my favorite disposable plates and disposable forks a few days beforehand from Amazon. I already had everything else on hand from previous dinner parties so the tablescape was a breeze.
The rule for Supper Club is the hostess prepares all the food – appetizers, dinner and dessert. Everyone else brings a bottle of wine. And even though 1/3 of the girls in attendance were pregnant, we still managed to go through a ton of wine!
For the appetizers I set out chips, salsa, guacamole and queso. I made a pound of queso and by the end of the night it was completely gone. The recipe was super simple and delicious. In a small crockpot I melted a large block of Velveeta cheese with two (undrained) cans of Rotel. Once it was melted and well combined I just kept the crockpot on the warm setting and it was good all night!
For dinner I prepared a taco bar. Who doesn’t love tacos? Our taco bar included crockpot chicken (recipe), ground beef, black beans, corn, lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese and sour cream.
For dessert I made the yummiest individual Strawberry Shortcakes. These were easy to prepare ahead of time and also looked pretty. Oh, and they were tasty — very, very tasty.
For the Strawberry Shortcakes I cubed a cream cheese pound cake (from the freezer section), added some diced strawberries (tossed in turbinado sugar), topped with whipped cream and repeated the layers to fill the glass.
Of course, we snapped a quick picture of (almost) all the girls.
Yum! What a great meal! Everything looks absolutely delicious:) And those individual shortcakes are too cute:)
those dessert cups look so good! i really need to start doing a super club with my friends! xo jillian – cornflake dreams
I LOVE making individual desserts like that – so pretty and easy!I must know about your burlap prints on the wall behind the last picture… gorgeous! Where are they from?
The custom burlap prints are from Fiber And Water!
What an awesome evening – we have our wine club tonight and I'm hosting! x
I love this idea! It looks like such a fun, laid back way to get together with all of the girls on a consistent basis! Plus, multiple bottles of wine is always a fantastic night!
What a fun time! I'm in total agreement about being present at your own parties. I hate having all my loved ones at my house and being stuck in the kitchen away from them — I'm all about prepping and simplicity!
There's nothing like good girl time … FUN!
So fun!! Love the individual strawberry short cakes!!
Supper club sounds like such a great idea – I wish I was part of one! The centerpieces look beautiful – and what a steal! I love every single thing about your meal! Perfect 🙂
I love the idea of a Supper Club– such a fun event to look forward to! And you can't beat queso and a taco bar 🙂
Everything looks beautiful and delicious!
What a beautiful evening!!! The food was amazing. My fave was the warm queso. Thanks for being an awesome hostess!!!
Such a pretty set up and I love that your really focused on not taking yourself away from the fun.
What a fun night!! I love the disposable plates and forks…genius!!! And those desserts look delicious!! Great job! 😉
Wow your table looks gorgeous! I am so impressed! Looks like you had a great evening with your friends!
The strawberry shortcake dessert was a great idea! Not too complicated and looks perfect in the glasses! Supper club sounds like such a fun idea!
Looks so much fun! I'd love to start doing this with some girl friends, but how do y'all manage with babies and jobs? I'm worn out by dinner time!
What an adorable dinner party, and those flowers were such a steal! I'm totally with you on keeping things simple – after all, the host deserves to enjoy the party too!
ughhhhh i hate that i missed supper club (and the cheese dip)
sounds like a great time! Mexican is one of my entertaining go-to for that very reason, you can prep so much ahead of time and enjoy the fun with everyone else!
Yum! If I was living in your area I would be trying to figure out a way to score an invite into this supper club!
Your tablescape is beautiful!! I love those plates and silverware, you can't even tell that they are disposable. Such a fun tradition 🙂 Xo, Stephanie
I just love your idea of supper club and wish I had a group of friends to do this with, maybe someday. Those flowers are beautiful – I need a fresh bouquet in my house STAT!! Beautiful table and what a greati dea to use disposable plates and forks!!
So fun!! My mom makes a similar queso but adds taco meat…so yummy!
This looks like so much fun!! You did a great job hosting! I love the dessert in the glasses- I am going to have to copy that 🙂
That looks like so much fun. Your table looked beautiful! Dinner get togethers with friends are such a great thing to do b/c you can hang out longer than at a table in a busy restaurant and you (hopefully) spend less most of the time!
Please share the deets on the disposable plates and forks! They look great!And….this makes me want to start up a supper club! I used to have a book club and bunco club, and then everyone started getting married and having babies and….kaput! So sad!
Wow! It looks so beautiful! And the food sounds [and looks] amazing! 🙂 I'm glad you were able to have such a fun evening with friends!
Looks great!
I've done a strawberry cheesecake/short cake dessert just like that before. SO good!! and your table looked outstanding! Love cheap florals 🙂
Your home looks amazing! I don't know how you do it, host awesome supper clubs and be a great mommy! Loving that table decor!xoxoKarenhttp://kensingtonwest.me.uk
This looks so amazing! I CANNOT wait to have a bigger place to invite people over and have dinner parties!
Everything looks fabulous and delicious! What a great idea for a girls night. 😉
This looks like such a fun tradition! The flowers really made the table pop, too!
Love this! Two weeks ago my girlfriend and I hosted our super club and we did Tacos as well – always a winner! Great minds think alike. Miss you C!
All the food looks so good, what a fun reason to have a party!!