Wednesday night dinner

Last night Mike proposed to go out and spend a night "not next to the books", Mike started his MBA in August and slowly but steadily he is spending all of his extra time with books/theories and studying.

After his last exam on Tue, he just wished to be somewhere outside... I had in mind a great restaurant which offers free dinner for any girl who is willing to buy a drink there ($6 only). Option 1 is pizza, option 2 is pasta, not to fitness but pretty good deal. So I thought of inviting 2 of our friends and go down there...

...but then again I thought it might be better over all if I prepare the dinner and have everybody come to our grill area in our condo's garden and eat there.

It seems that the idea was a huge success, as always I invented a meal using mussels, B. fish, salmon and lots of cream sauce.

Imran and Krisztina were highly impressed with the serving due to its size, smell and look. It might have been Kriszti's last meal at our place as she is moving back to Hungary for good in less than 4 days. :)

So here are the pictures:

Mike's Birthday on 30th August

Mike's upcoming birthday gave me the fine excuse to venture out and buy ingredients that are usually not in my daily routine items such as Parma ham, outstanding quality Swiss and Italian cheeses, really nice cream fresh ...

Actually Mike tole me to give him an "experience" for his birthday which meant an unforgettable meal. Given that he LOVES pasta and chocolate I did not need to spend much time thinking what to prepare, I made pasta main course and chocolate dessert.
Which is quite vanilla! :)

Purchasing all the ingredients took me a fair amount of time as I went to 4-5 different shops for perfection.

I speed-learned the method of home made pasta by Jamie Oliver. This story on youtube really does seem to be quick and easy but if you haven't got a pasta maker machine like he does in the video, it is quite fussy / time consuming and the result is not as soft as expected but hey I made pasta at home! :)

The meal turned out to be unbelievable - super rich but just super tasty with the great cheeses, see through sliced Parma ham, creamy sauce ... it was a feast no doubt about it! We opened one of our holly bottle of wines from Hungary, all was perfect and according to Mike the meal delivered what he hoped for.

The dessert had to wait for a while as we needed some time between these two courses but the chocolaty dessert was just amazing as well!

I am sure this is something you shouldn't eat every day because the calorie contain is about 3000 per head but once is a while it is great to celebrate!