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Eventually we did make it to our designated area but it seems that the party started a while ago without us. Our table was not even set up when the customary waving of the napkins was happening all around us. Our table section was one of the last ones to be set up and the rest of the tables were well into their dinner when we were setting up our table.
In any event, we finally did get settled, assembled the table, unfolded the chairs, threw the white cloth over the table, set out the white dinnerware, stemware,, silverware, open the screw cap bottle of wine and leaned back to begin the experience. We clicked glasses and decided that in spite of the “minor” inconveniences, the beauty of the setting was worth it. It was a tribute to our love of celebration and a testament to our collective appreciation of rituals.
Dîner en Blanc was set up in a fenced area along the beautiful Okanagan lake in the City Park. Dozens of tables in parallel rows glistened with white cloth, candles, flowers and even candelabras. Guests were creative and original and the tables they set were beautiful and celebratory. No effort seemed too much. Multiply this by five hundred guests and you get the picture. A truly unique visual feast.
Val and I settled to sample our offering, beginning with the chilled minted pea soup and continuing to the exquisite salmon ballotine. The potato salad with beans and pea shoots in champagne vinaigrette added a zesty element and the visual of our plate was gorgeous. Our food did attract interest from neighbouring tables and when they heard that we were two food bloggers they nodded in understanding (oh, you are foodies, I’ll check your blogs”).
The nice part about this menu was that you could leave things on the plate and go around taking picture and come back to a perfectly good dinner that remained fresh at room temperature. We had to get up several time and photograph the gorgeous scene with the backdrop of the lake. We’d wander around with our cameras and then sit down again for a few more bites and a few more sips of the wine.
As the sun set and the evening descended, candles were lit, sparklers waived in the air and dancing begun to live music that wafted through the park.
The evening ended around 10:00 pm. We packed our baskets, dismantled the table, folded the chairs and begun the pilgrimage back to the bus. I will leave it at that.
Would I do it again next year? Sure I would, it was a magical evening that took you out of the ordinary and provided a photogenic and visual feast. A testament to our love of celebration and rituals. Next year though I will be better prepared with something on wheels that will make it easier to carry what I need to bring.
Leave it to the French to come up with this event. They have this je ne sais quoi .
Recipes to follow. Stay tuned.
Hi Bri-Anne, thanks for the note. It’s good to be back in the kitchen and on the blog. Stay in touch.
Dina … Sounds like a magical night ! Think I want to go with you and your girlfriend Val next year!!!!
The menu superb …..photo’s beautiful ! Thanks for the mention ….. Look forward to your next visit.
Tracy, so nice of you to visit the blog. We would love to have you join the party next year. We are hoping to have a larger group and have our own section. We also learned a few things and it will be an easier “undertaking” next time. My white dress and scarf were perfect for me – thanks. Will visit Jigsaw soon.
Sounds like a wonderful evening. I’ll make the flight for next years event if we can order a white limo to get us there!
Funny:). That’s my gal. I raised you right.
I didn’t get to attend this year but I am saving the date for next summer whenever it may be. I have always wanted to attend a Diner en Blanc event if not in Paris the Okanagan appears to do an equally amazing job two years in a row now.
Great photos and a delicious menu – your confusion only serves you better next year!
Hi Murissa, thanks for dropping by. I love your blog, careful on the ledge over in Vicenza, it looks high off the ground. I see you are from the Okanagan Valley. We should get together sometime. Let me know if you plan to attend the dinner next year as well.
Laura, it would be wonderful to do it again next year together. With what we have learned this year it should be much more manageable next time around.
I certainly agree with everything Dina, but in the end it is like “giving birth” and we’ll forget the pain and hardship on our “old” creaking bones and do it all again next year with a twinkle in our eye, a lightness in our step with picnic baskets on wheels and an ever increasing number of friends. Thank you for being my “date” for this magical evening.
Hi Val, it was fun partnering with you for this event. For sure we’ll do it next year again if they don’t “ban” me for expressing myself:). It was a special evening. Several of my friends now would like to join. Here is to more Okanagan foodie experiences.
Zumba has over the last couple of years grown rapidly to become one of the world’s most popular categories of group exercise classes. In fact, this dance of Latin origin is reportedly performed by in excess of 12 million people in some 110,000 sites spread across the globe.
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Because Zumba involves whole body movement, you’ll end up getting a full-body workout. Even a person who is just learning the Zumba dance steps will find themselves with a positive and definitive post-workout feeling when they wake up the following day.
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If you wish to eliminate the day’s accumulation of stress, then Zumba is the ideal workout. The Zumba specific upbeat moves favor the release of endorphins, the mood-improving hormones.
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