Tonight we continue the new tradition of having Mytholder over for dinner on a Thursday. This "tradition" may actually end tomorrow as Mytholder is going overseas, but hopefully we'll continue to have people over for dinner once a week anyway. It's good fun!
Coming with Mytholder tonight are Fotaboy and Neid. Neid is a vegetarian, so I've prepared a vegetarian menu. Having a job means that I don't have much time before dinner is to be served (7.00 tonight as Neid had a previous engagement later in the evening). This meant that I did some of the prep yesterday.
The menu
Entree
Stuffed Capsicums
In Ireland they call capsicums peppers, but whatever. Anyhoo, I got the basis for this recipe from a cooking class I attended during the Cork Lifelong Learning festival. They showed us garlic stuffed mushrooms, but since we are having mushrooms in the main course, I decided capsicums would work instead.
The stuffing is a mixture of butter, breadcrumbs, mixed nuts, garlic and salt/pepper/herbs. I cut each capsicum in half vertically and then spooned the stuffing into each one. I'll also be sprinkling some grated parmesan onto them once I've grilled them in the oven.
Omnomnom
Main Course
I'm making Jarratt's Haloumi cheese pasta. Jarratt totally introduced me to the joy of haloumi cheese and I enjoy introducing others. Normally when I have it, I have it in a salad (similar to the pasta dish but no pasta or cream!), but as this is a main and some people aren't happy having salad as a main I shall instead be attempting Jarratt's recipe.
Dessert
Last night I made Anna's brownie recipe. Anna is a food and nutrition teacher and knows her stuff.
I made the recipe with no nuts and with bailey's instead of vanilla essence (I don't have vanilla essence yet!) and baked it in a medium sized roasting dish. We have a fan-force oven and I took it out after 30 min. It made the house smell *really* good. Because I made it just before bedtime last night, I left it to cool overnight in the pan. It came out easily this morning and I managed to cut it into 20 good sized pieces.
If I made it again, I think I'd take it out maybe 2 min earlier so that the inside is a bit more gooey, I just like it like that.
I had to really fight not to have brownie for breakfast this morning!
I can't be bothered with anymore shopping and I think it will be delicious as is, but if the guests ask if they can bring anything, I'd ask for vanilla ice-cream and strawberries to go with the brownie.
Gosh I'm hungry, I need to stop blogging about food before I've had lunch!
Beau and I are both enjoying this little online game. It involves cute and simple animated bugs and you encircling them!
Point of fashion: work-like
Current Obsession: entertaining