Friday night dinner brought to us by the letter D

Every Friday night I have dinner with my close family – my mother, my sister and her family and a revolving parade of members of my husband’s family. It is a well polished routine one Friday at my house, the next at my sisters. And so on and so on for ever.

I adore having my family over and although the origins of the Friday night together are based in Jewish religion we use the time together to connect rather than for any religious significance. It “forces” us to get together and it is one of the traditions of Judaism that I love and hope that my son will carry with him way into his future because at the end of the day – and more specifically at the end of the week there is nothing like family.

The only real problem with making dinner every second Friday night (and it needs to be a proper dinner where we all sit at the table not grab pizza take away)  is thinking about what on earth to make. There are so many weeks that you can sit through soup and a roast dinner followed by a decadent dessert and then you start to tire of it.  And so it was that a couple of weeks ago we decided to theme our dinners. I so love a theme!

Starting at A we are going to cook the food of a country with every letter of the alphabet. I started 4 weeks ago with an Austrian dinner, my sister did Belgian the next week and I did Chinese the week after. On Friday night my sister (and her very helpful and uber capable son) made food from the Dominican Republic and Dominica (they may have blurred the lines between the two countries). While my husband was exclaiming that it was the best food that he had ever eaten and reminding me to take photos for my blog I realised I had never ever blogged about my alphabet dinners – and so that’s about to change.

This is what we ate on Friday night (although I didn’t because Michelle Bridges is not Dominican). We don’t usually eat all our food deep fried but then again we don’t always eat Dominican. Also bear in mind I am not a very good food photographer and I really don’t know a thing about retouching photos.

Chicharrones de Pollo –  My husband said that this was the best chicken he had ever eaten. Click here for the recipe (My nephew’s variation: equal parts flour, corn flour and panko crumbs, 2 tbs rosemary, 2 tbs dried chili, 2tsp cinnamon)

Empanadas very impressively braided and everything by my nephew. Recipe here

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Tostone which are plantains cut into 1 inch slices, deep fried, cooled slightly, smashed flat and deep fried again. Did I mention we don’t always eat so much fried food?

Caramel three ways. Inherited from the Spaniards, common across Latin America creme caramel is one of Dominican’s favorite desserts. Who knew?

As I said photography is not my forte so forgive me and trust that it looked a lot better in real life.

This Friday night is my turn and I have the letter E. I’m tossing up between Egyptian, Ethiopian or English (although I think English may be taking the easy way out).

Would love your ideas! And I’ll try to take better photos.