If you’ve seen my previous posts on my homegroup dinners you’ll know that this is one of my favorite things ever.  Have you seen “Babette’s Feast”?  It’s a story about a woman who is a chef in Paris and has to flee France.  She is taken in by these Danish women and in return she cooks for them.  All they want though is this gloppy gruel that is their traditional food.   Babette wins the Danish lottery and wants to serve a dinner to the Danish women and their friends.  She makes a feast for them like they’ve never had before and at the end of the movie you find out that she spent all her winnings cooking for them.  I totally get that.  It brings me such joy to cook for my homegroup and be creative with food.  Thankfully they all pitch in so I don’t have to win the lottery to pay for it!

The theme was “Visiting France with an Italian Cousin” and before I show you some of the decorations – I have to tell you that we all look forward to is what these three are going to wear for the theme.  It makes me laugh everytime –

Haha!  Is that not the best?!

Here are some other photos from the night –

I love making decorations out of nothing.  I had almost everything I needed for these decorations on hand.  The flowers are made from coffee filters!  I just painted some of them and folded them into a triangle, twisted the bottom and then used some tape to put them all together into a flower.  Voila!

I love that most of the evening is like this –

I also love it when the left over salad is too good to be wasted so gets eaten out of the bowl!

The boys love it when the dessert requires FIRE!

I’m already looking forward to the next one!