"Dine with us!" was an old idea we brought back to try, maybe before most of you joined DC. I think PDS had just joined when we pulled it if I remember right... anyway, the idea back then was - someone picked and posted a recipe and we all made the same dish, but just getting a group of people together to cook something similar and discuss the results (with pics) is pretty cool IMO.
The reason we archived the "Dine with us!" forum is because it died out and most people lost interest. I thought because we have so many new members this might work again so we gave it a go. If it gets to slow - we may have to archive it again though...