Come Dine with Me

This past Wednesday, I had the girlies over for another Come dine with me feast. Because we have a large group, this is only my second time making dinner. I thought I would go fancy but also try to be a bit healthy. For the first course, I made homemade spring rolls. The main meal was wonton noodle soup and the piece d' resistance- Mini fruit tarts- Yummy!

Come Dine with Me - Continued

My little gal group has successfully continued the tradition of our Come Dine with me series (each lady cooks approximately once a week for the others), and it seriously is the thing I look forward to the most each week.

Last night, we were over at Kate's house and she totally dazzled us with Lamb Kebabs (I don't usually heart lamb, but I LOVED it last night) and HOMEMADE meringues, cream AND toffee sauce. How does she find time to hand-make toffee sauce? All the laughing last night definitely made up for skipping the gym!

Makeshift Dinner Parties

The BF has been in Switzerland for work this week and to celebrate (I mean mourn... I definitely meant mourn), I invited some gal pals over each night for a dinner party! The menu was relatively the same for both nights- home made egg rolls, wonton soup and steak and rice one night and fried rice the second night.

I'm no top chef, but I make a relatively decent meal. However, this is the first time since I moved here that I attempted to make traditional goodies. It's difficult here to make food like mom's since there are only 2 small Asian supermarkets. They carry most of the basics, but I couldn't find the right brands for certain ingredients so my food was a bit makeshift as I substituted some items with the products that were available here.

The girls enjoyed it greatly since there's not a great place to get Vietnamese food here. I thought the food was pretty, but didn't quite taste like mom's.