The Host With The Most

Self,

I know I had mentioned it, I hosted a brunch for some friends back on December 21. It was a short notice event. I enjoyed myself tremendously.

So what had happen was. A couple years ago, Prince EsQuire and I started a book club among a few of our friends. Our first book was Love by Toni Morrison. The significance of that is that one of the character's name was Heed the Night (Something). Well by default that also became the name of the bookclub. "Heed Da Nite" only lasted about a year before everyone's schedules became to complicated and conflicting....oh yeah and Prince Esquire moved to Miami.

Well that doesn't mean that we don't still enjoy socializing and the comraderie. Well we needed a reason to come together one year during the holiday season, so even after the club disbanded "Heed Da Nite" had a special holiday meeting in which the club read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." ( a book club must have a book to read, right...but nothing too heavy lol.)

IT WAS HILARIOUS. We made it real easy for folks, you didn't have to have read the book before attending the meeting because we passed the book around and we took turn reading a page to the group. Some just read it straight. Some decided to give individual voices to the characters. GOOD TIMES!

Well base on a suggestion from one of the other former members of "Heed Da Nite." I called an emergency brunch session. The book of choice was "The Night Before Christmas!"

The menu consisted of; bacon, sausage quiche (I made five - 1 pictured below), one vegetable quiche for the sole vegetarian, grits, biscuits, a pecan pie, a royal family secret - Five Flavor Pound cake, and the highlight of the day mimosas, either with OJ or the special treat of Chambord.

(I'm not happy with Prince Esquire using my quiche on his blog before I could....but I like the shot!) This picture below is the full spread along with an honorary club member and little sister, Lady of Mt Olympus.

Well of course for the most part nobody was on time, including myself. The only exceptions were a friend who due to transportation issues came to stay the night before and helped set up. The other exception was this one cutie who I tempted into attending by offering a sample of the Five-Flavor Pound cake (which of course he had never had since it is a royal family secret and I had only met him the week before.) I've since learned of a rumor that he is seeing someone =( these things happen, but we haven't really talked directly about it so the rumor could be false but we'll see. Anyway as I said, everyone was late... including myself. The quiches were time consuming...I'm glad I did do some of the preparation work the night before. I don't think the first round of folks really arrived till almost 1pm, despite having told folks we were starting like 11am-ish (the -ish part meant I knew folks weren't going to be on time.) Well Cutie showed up at 11:30am and he thought he was late, but was the first to arrive. These were my two exceptions that were on time or early depending on how you look at it.

I had a really good time, so did everyone else. Lol even the straglers who showed up at about 3:30pm.... and they were still able to to fix plates. After the crowd thinned out, "Heed Da Nite" came together and read "The Night Before Christmas" ...lol and in true "Heed" fashion, we found something to argue about in the book (there's a standing arguement about who died in Love, there's also one for another book, The Lovely Bones.) We argued about who would read which sections of the book. Good times.

"Heed Da Nite" (L to R:) Prince Esquire, Compton Diva, my Mistress (who we decided to promote to my wife since my wife is now married with 2 children with another man,....long story lol) and me. These two ladies were also my two stragglers that were the last to arrive.

(L-R:)This is another of my brothers Chrisma (well that's what he named his car.) My Str8-husband, and either Ugly or Stupid (if I call her ugly she calls me stupid or vice versa. Ugly is also an original member of "Heed Da Nite."

Hey I have an idea, how about a bloggers bookclub. Someone select a book, the group agrees to read it by a specific date. And either the person who picked the book post a blog about it on that day and everyone else just leaves comments or all the readers post a blog about the book and everyone takes turn leaving comments on each others blogs......hmm anyone interested?

Sincerely,

Pharaoh

PS...lol hmm a blogger bookclub...ahh am I that much of a nerd...oh well I am who I am. (lol and what I am is like my mammy - kidding.)

Oh FYI the recipe for the quiche is being posted on http://esquireeats.blogspot.com/