Honey Mustard Chicken and Risoni Salad

An oldie but a goodie, and with the leftover honey mustard marinade, I just turned it into a honey mustard sauce for the beans.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here we give thanks for all the wonderful people who have graced our lives in 2011.

Merry Christmas to our dear wonderful amazing friends!!

Lunch at the Mews, and Dinner at the newlyweds. We all suffered a serious case of Food Coma.

Pork loin with stuffing prior being prepped

Just tap like that to keep the stuffing in...

There we go. Poi-fect!

Hmmm, check out the layer of fat under the skin.
MMMMMMMM FAT......

TADAH!
The end product, and perfect crackling.

Lol, looks a bit like heaven doesn't it?

Here's a better shot.
Prawn cocktail (centre)
Prawn, mango, caviar rice paper rolls (I calls it Prawn Roly-poly Keemi-style)

Christmas ham, glazed with raspberry jam & apricot conserve.
Pwetty ain't it?

Yummms!

Pan friend orange marinated duck breast

Cue drools now.
Perfecto!
Nice and pink!

Pan fried duck breast with snow pea, mint, carrot and lettuce salad.

*Squeals with delight*
My dining room set is almost complete. So excitements!

Here's what it looks like on the plate!

Champers with strawberries and mint

We thought we'd keep dessert nice and simple.
Chocolate cups with jaffa sorbet and home made vanilla ice cream. AWESOME-NESS!

Lol, that's how tiny they are...

And after lunch, here comes DINNER!
Ok, the spread included baked Christmas ham with orange glaze, prawns, silverbeet, salads, oysters, potato salad, roasted lamb and stuffing (hmm... don't think that made it into this pic).
So. Much. Food.

Dinner desserts, yup: DESSERTS (multiple)
(from top to bottom) strawberry tarts, flan (coffee or mocha or something yummy like that...), lemon curd tarts with blueberries and cherries, sticky date pudding.

Mini tartlets of home made lemon curd and blueberries and cherries.

Sticky date pudding. Delish!

Here we are saying thank you and happy Christmas to everybody!

15 November 2011 - Steak & Salads

The original plan for tonight's dinner was supposed to be a chicken salad, but plans go awry and we have come up with something better!

As Sims had a sale on their Porterhouse, we just had to get some... and since we were getting steak, well.. who could resist a steak?! So steak for dindins it was.

Chicken salad will have to wait another night...

Steak, medium rare.
Cabbage, apple and caper slaw (I love love luuuurrrve this salad!)
Risoni, tomato, parsley and spinach salad with lemon dressing (And this one is pretty darn good too)

DESSERT!
We actually have dessert tonight!
Lemon and poppy seed muffins

Now which one of you is the poser?
Which one of you has the potential to be the star, the solo artist??

The chosen one
Smile at me darling... *click* *click click click*
Lovely dahhhling
That's gorgeous!

Oh.
Cupcake orgy.