The Dinner Club

I didn’t get nearly enough pics grrr! It rained / was quite miserable but we still had a wonderful catch up!

I was the recipient of so many treats - sunflowers, fresh picked apples, cucumbers, plants and seeds for my garden, wine and there was eclair (Dad is en route to help tmrw .. dammit!) leftovers 🤣

So good to host everyone at my home, and ya know what? I think we may need to do it again now and then just for fun!

Merry Christmas everyone, have a fabulous day!🥂🎁

Christmas is almost here and we’re celebrating with something special…

Starting tomorrow, we’re launching 12 Days of Festive Deals across our online store and Silky Oak Café.

Every day brings a new treat- from discounts on your favourite chocolates to giveaways, café specials and sweet surprises.

Here’s a little taste of what December looks like:
🎁 Daily online + in-store offers
🍫 Special gifts with purchase
🍨 Café deals you will not want to miss
🎄 A Christmas giveaway
🥤 Festive treats for the whole family
We’ll reveal each offer day by day, so keep an eye on

our page and get ready for the season’s sweetest countdown.

Set your reminders… the magic starts tomorrow. ✨

Shop Christmas: silkyoakchocs.co.nz

Some time after we started our weekly dinners, we held a thank-you night for sponsors | friends of TDC to come meet our guests | cyclone Gabrielle survivors.

People they’d helped by supporting *us* in our dinner / cooking endeavours.

We were blessed with so many donations: funding, food, drinks, helpers, flowers, venues, blankets, candles—you name it: I think we got it!

(And we so enjoyed sharing the love with guests, each week!)

Time moves on and while no one will *ever* forget Gabrielle’s horrific impact.. We thought it might be enjoyable to share some memories of TDC.

The good and the bad..

In this case the (for me!) most bad kind. A food flop! 😱😂

I have made these wrap / “faux sushi” a million times before. Sliced into rounds, they’re the perfect canapé. Easy to eat. Gorgeous to look at. And relatively cheap to smash out. Winning combo!

In the midst of our sponsor evening, we sliced these bad boys open: flop central. They were soggier than a .. soggy thing. Argh! To this day I don’t know why! 🤷‍♀️

Thankfully no one knew (except us!) and the piggies at Raymond AndCynthea Greene enjoyed a colourful feast next day as we scurried to serve something else instead .. (nothing was wasted!)

Adapting to the situation at hand comes to mind.. Something all our cyclone impacted residents here In HB had also had to do .. PDQ 💛