BBQ Time

As Mai is leaving to go back to France after her 4 months stint here Richard invited myself, Eddie, Mai and her friend to his for a BBQ open Saturday.

It was a slightly cloudy day but didnt ruin the BBQ cravings we all had.

As Rich's is on a diet of which he has lost 10Kgs he hosted a very healthy spread of homemade Roasted Pumpkin Dip, Mango and Chilli Salsa as well as cream cheese and olives to start off with. We also immediately tucked into the wine!

Mango Salsa, Cream Cheese, Roasted Pumpkin Dip, Olives, Fetta YUM

Just Getting Started

What was on offer was a moroccan lamb salad which was delicious as well as an amazing beef salad with roasted vegetables.

Moroccan Lamb Salad - look how good the lamb looks!

Beef Salad I loved this so much!

Mai brought over an Apple cake and crepes, they were so good, but i couldnt move to get my camera and take pics....also i was enjoying my nutella crepes to much :)

Dads Bday

January 5th 2007 Dads bday! yey I love my dad so much and this was the first time ever he made a suggestion as to what he wanted and we also even got a cake yey!

So what did dad want? A BBQ with mums Lemongrass and Garlic Shish Kebabs.

Lemongrass and garlic beef, marinated lamb and vegies for the kebabs

mmm cooked meat

Only problem though, i have had way too much meat i feel sick and heavy, i dont think i can have anymore for a while...

Happy Birthday Dad!!

Pasta Pronto

Went over to Ben and Kirstens with Ben who has a great love for food and cooking as well. We got then a pasta rolling machine for Xmas so they invited Eddie and I over for dinner so we could see and taste the results!.

The pasta was made so well and was delicious!

Ben made fettucini with a thick tomato sauce that had so much intense flavour it complimented the pasta really well.

Kirsten did dessert which was a hazelnut gelato which was really nice however abit runny and as I had a bottle of white followed by red i wasnt in the best state for dessert.

Best bit...I won poker!!

Good times! :)

Just eating!

The boy and I went to Johnnie and Elinors for the famous 'log'.

As Johnnie is Italian, his mother has obviously passed through some great cooking skills his way and the first time I had the log, it was a very memorable meal.

So the log needed to be made again.

Its bascially a minced meat log with egg and bacon inside. Johnnie placed it sliced on top of pasta this time and popped some basil around for a Xmas theme.

Very enjoyable!

Hello Johnny!

The Log in its complete yum-ness

half way through

So satisfying!