unfortunately as i was too busy stuffing my face, i totally forgot to bring out my camera and since i was too busy eating, i didnt even think of using my phone's camera! oops but i'll try to be as detailed as possible?
my very first pressie to arrive!!!
pretty boxes and great gifts this year.... especially with aaron back to celebrate this season with us :)the feast all started on christmas eve dinner
i went on over to gina's house for dinner :) i was terribly late coz i had earlier gone out with some colleages to ice cold for some halfday, prechristmas drinks... i ended up going home lets just say a little bit unstable. i even proceeded on to bake my cake for this year's christmas season - french apple cake!!!
and then it was christmas day! as always we started it at church then it was off to the ever exciting ce michelle's new place... this year's menu was lamb, beef, ham, pork, turkey, mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, stuffing, roasted veggies mostly done by mark and it was AWESOME!!!! i was terrible and just stuffed my face without thinking that day and it was sooooo good. i swear christmas lunch at ce michelle's is the one thing i look forward to every year. the lamb was soooo good
with a hangover, my palate for wine wasnt as good as normal heh
then when we finally pulled ourselves away.... we came home and i had to rush prepping for dinner at kuma's. fighting major food coma, cooking was such a pain and unfortunately, given the last minute thinking, we were severly late for dinner :( the cake took a little longer than expected. by this time i was soooo exhausted rushing to cook the couscous that i barely ate but nonetheless kuma did her normal great job - carrot&orange soup, salade, ham, turkey, sausages with mushrooms in tomato sauce, clams
this week, my office was closed so i had some time to figure out what i wanted to experiment to cook so just last nite i finally got off my butt and cooked dinner. i've been meaning to try and make gnocchi and since i had aaron and his friends here, who else wld make greater guinea pigs???
menu was:
gnocchi in cream sauce
seared scallops
creamed chicken and the left over couscous
some of the scallops in butter and thyme
since i had some relatives in town, i was rather snappy with them and had to consume oh abt a bottle of wine to last me the nite heh
i was hopping to make risotto with truffle and scallops but i didnt haf time to get to the risotto so i just decided to sear the scallops and maybe this weekend if mom takes them out, i'll make the risotto
and of course no dinner wld be finished without dessert.... and since i wasnt that inspired, or valhorna choc wasnt readily available given the short time i had.... i just put together stickydate pudding/cake in toffee sauce
i think i'll just spend tmr baking the cupcakes i've promised ghia and the remaining pple i've promised cake to :)
in about 2.5 hours.... 2011 will be here! hopefully it'll be alot better than 2010 thou i dont think i can complain that much :D
