Friday 28th August '09

Lunch at Work
Instant Spicy Mushroom Ramen Noodles
1. Peel back the lid halfway.

2. Add boiling water up to marked line, put lid back down and let it stand for several minutes.

3. Enjoy!

After work I headed over to Marissa's for dinner with her and Teresa. We're having our second long-awaited tagine dinner!

Now, I had meant to ask Marissa and Teresa to write down their dishes for me because I knew I would forget - and guess what!? I have! So I'll try to describe them as well as I can.

Marissa's Beef & Prunes Tagine

Marissa's Spinach Cous Cous

Teresa's Spicy Coconut Chicken

Teresa's Salad with Pomegranate Dressing



We started with the Penfolds Thomas Hyland 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon, and then after dinner Marissa broke open the bottle of French port that I bought for Teresa for her birthday earlier this year.

We've been wanting to get together for a 'Colin Firth movie night' for yonks now! And finally we set the date for tonight, and then lo and behold I saw an ad on TV for a Friday night movie starring the one and only... Colin Firth! It was meant to be, I tells ya!

All our nibblies:
triple butter microwave popcorn
fresh strawberries
brie
Mr Pelle's homemade spicy chorizo
fresh Turkish bread
Havarti cheese
Kalamatta olives
Lavosh crackers

Love my popcorn!

I really really love Mr Pelle's homemade spicy chorizo! I am yet to be lucky enough to not be working so that I may go watch him prepare it one year.

Friday 27th Jun '08

Marissa and Teresa invited me over for dinner after work tonight. The plan was to cook dinner using the tagine I bought for Marissa as her house warming present late last year.

I waited eagerly with my camera as Teresa took the tagine out of the oven and prised the lid off. The aroma was to die for!


Lamb Tagine with pumpkin, lentils, dates,
preserved lemons, and spices
Cous Cous with Blue Vein Cheese
Fried Cabbage

For dessert Teresa panfried fresh pears dipped in icing sugar. The sugar caramelised and gave the pears a delicious syrupy coat. These were served with crushed nutes and Teresa's Cardomom & Rose Ice Cream.


Marissa made a refreshing mint tea for us when we moved to the couches to watch TV after dinner. She used Jasmine tea leaves, black tea leave, sugar and some fresh mint leaves. Really helped digest after the huge meal I had.


I am going to have to buy a tagine for myself! I'm looking forward to the next dinner at Marissa's place...I feel like Maeve on 'Food Safari' whenever Teresa watches for my reaction as I try one of her dishes. How I wish I could have Maeve's job.

*sigh* A girl can dream.