February - Thai Night

February 23rd

I must say this was one of the largest displays of food that we have had so far. Asian food is not my favourite food so I was not looking forward to this theme as much as others but I was quite impressed by all the food on display and you must agree (by looking at the above photo) that the display was wonderfully Thai looking.

 

The food was amazing and varied and many dishes that I had not heard of before.

January - Australian Night

January 26th

WOW what a night that was and I'm not talking about the food. We had a severe weather storm and even has 2 tornados hit surrounding suburbs. I had a huge Australian evening planned and even had a cricket game scheduled for 3pm but alas it all had to be cancelled.

I did have a couple of friends come anyway and we made what we could of it so there was still some great food eaten and a few beverages consumed.

December - Christmas Drinks

 

December 22nd

 

 

What a night (what I can remeber of it). We decided to skip the themed dinner this month and go out for drinks instead without the kids, I believe a great night was had by all but not something I could go back to on a regular basis (well, maybe I could if I stayed off the bundy).

More themed dinners are planned for the coming year, stay tuned.

November - Indian Night

 

November 24th

 

CURRY CURRY & MORE CURRY

 

 

 

 

 

Wow what a great night we had, the curries were varied and hot hot hot.
Met many new people and a few old ones lol. Although having hot curry on a warm night may not seem ideal, it was perfect because we were inside with the air conditioning on and we sat in comfort and enjoyed our various types of curries.

October - Greek Night

October 27th

Well, we've done it again, another successful evening of food, wine and good company. the theme this month was greek, my friend had a whole lamb cooked on a spit which was then carved up and served with various salads yoghurt and pita breads, yummy. We also had other typical greek dishes and desserts. Pictures to come shortly

September - Pizza, Pictionary & Pavlova Night

September 8th

Tonights pizza pictionary and pavlova night was a great success with some great inventive pizzas and pavlovas being produced. We had everything from meatlovers to prawn pizzas as well as a few fantastic tasting garlic pizzas.

 

Pizza was downed with a few beverages and then followed by some various shaped pavlovas,       

yum yum

 

What followed was a great night of pictionary, once the winning team had cheered the loudest it was the kids turn to have a go.

 

 

 

August - Italian Night

August 11th

Last weekend I held the 1st of many themed dinner parties and tried to keep it simple by going Italian (everyone can cook Italian food, right?)
It was agreed by all that it was a great success, the antipasti served was bruschetta followed by main course of baked veal parmigiana, eggplant parmigiana, lasagna, chicken cacciatore with pasta, vegetarian spaghetti, tomato salad, and mini pizza wheels for the kids.
To finish off we had tiramisu, baked lemon puddings and coffee.

                        The Mood

To set the mood I set up an Italian themed display table (as shown) with all things Italian, I had tomatoes, garlic, basil (from my garden). pasta, lemons, olive oil, grapes and many other "Italian" type things.

             The Table

On the tables I had checkered table cloths with candels in empty wine bottles, carafes of wine 9both white and red) and baskets of Italian bread served with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.






  Then during the dinner I had Andrea Bocelli playing softly in the background.