(Why would a book club have a season? Oh right because we don't read books we watch TV shows instead)

Yep that's right. We just refer to our weekly TV-watching soirees as "Book Club" in front of other people so they won't think we just sit around eating loads of pork, drinking copious, non-weeknight-appropriate amounts of wine, and spiralling into an ever-deepening abyss of snarky comments about Paula Abdul's alleged k-holes. Which is, of course, exactly what we do. Once a week. But, we do have STANDARDS so we only watch Project Runway or American Idol (OK so they're relatively low standards, but standards nonetheless.) So twice a year a big season finale extravaganza rolls around!


This is a good example to illustrate WHY we have to drink SO MUCH WINE.


(Fake) Book Club is always hosted by the lovely Sasha, but for the finale we potlucked it out to give him a well-deserved break. (As soon as I can get Jane to teach me how to make her mom's pirozhkis they will be all up on this blog, yo.) I was supposed to make the infamous bacon ice cream and bacon chocolate cake (look out for a future entry when I can motivate to do it!) but no dice.

I made strawberry shortcakes instead. I would love to write out the recipe for you, but luckily for all of us I made a similar version a while back, and our friend Heidi who has a beautiful food blog and writes fantastic cookbooks you should buy multiple copies of, gave me a sweet shout out and wrote up the recipe and made pretty pretty shortcakes and took pretty pretty pictures which you can see here. Yay Heidi! (Mine were not as pretty as hers, and I totally used squirt whipped cream, so do not be intimidated by her beautiful images.) Her website is fabulous all around, but I have to warn you it's strictly veg.

we ate: Jane's homemade pirozhkis, RFF's 2 salads, marinated pork tenderloin, lots of cheese and crackers, couscous, and probably some other stuff
dessert: aforementioned strawberry shortcakes, that were kind of like this but not nearly as attractive