Every six or eight weeks, a group of our friends get together for a dinner. I'd forgotten how the dinners got started, and our host Y reminded me that it started when we would come over to their house and cook dinner after their daughter and first child N was born - 10 years ago!! My how time flies.
Anyway, lately we've been theming the dinners against a cuisine. Hosted by S & Y, they provide the house and some nibbles to start off, I provide the bulk of the main course with A & P if they are around, and T & M cook dessert.
There was one dinner where we swapped it all around and I made dessert. Baking is really not my thing but I do give it a go and do my best, and the Hubby is a much better baker than I am. The dinner worked out well, but we all quickly reverted back to our old ways. Yes, we are creatures of habit after all! And as S is vegetarian, it's always fun to come up with veggie dishes that don't feel like a big side dish or just a jazzed-up salad.
We decided this time we were going to go with Spanish tapas seeing that it was still summer, so here's some of the dishes we had, and all the fabulous photos were taken by Y - she's good with that camera!
Anyway, lately we've been theming the dinners against a cuisine. Hosted by S & Y, they provide the house and some nibbles to start off, I provide the bulk of the main course with A & P if they are around, and T & M cook dessert.
There was one dinner where we swapped it all around and I made dessert. Baking is really not my thing but I do give it a go and do my best, and the Hubby is a much better baker than I am. The dinner worked out well, but we all quickly reverted back to our old ways. Yes, we are creatures of habit after all! And as S is vegetarian, it's always fun to come up with veggie dishes that don't feel like a big side dish or just a jazzed-up salad.
We decided this time we were going to go with Spanish tapas seeing that it was still summer, so here's some of the dishes we had, and all the fabulous photos were taken by Y - she's good with that camera!
Clockwise from the top right:
- baked eggs in braised chickpeas with tomato sauce
- albondigas - beef meatballs in spicy sauce
- chorizo with garlic and parsley
- stuffed eggplant
Wonder what the next dinner's theme will be?
