Dinner 2012!

I had the gang over for the annual birthday dinner.
This year's menu:
                                                          First course
                                                         Baby Spinach salad
                                                                    with
                    bacon, dried cranberries, candied pumpkin seeds and raspberry dressing.


                                                         Main course
                                                Pork roast with garlic and ginger
                                                                    with
                                 potatoes,gravy, black currant jelly and pickled cucumber.

                                                              Dessert
                                    Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry Semifreddos
                                                                   with
                                                     mini meringues and wafers.


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A really simple but tasty salad! Baby Spinach, crispy bacon bits, dried cranberries....  the dressing in the original recipe was half ranch dressing / half crushed and strained raspberry "sauce" with a dash of balsamic vinegar but I couldn´t find any ranch dressing so I mixed dried herbs, garlic, oil, cream, raspberry sauce, balsamic vinegar and also in the original there are candied walnuts in the salad but due to a allergy, I candied sunflower seeds instead...



I season the roast with a ginger, garlic and herb mix, salt, pepper and allowed it to marinate for a few hours ... Then I had it in the oven for 4-5 hours on a low heat! YUM-YUM!



I saw a cookery program once and they had mini meringues with a dessert and I thought:Oh! How cute and fun! I just had to make them for my dinner!











I got really nice gifts! M.E, D & J gave me a cute mug, some ginger & honey tea and a tea strainer(I needed that!)...B & T gave me a nice candle with a platter and a stone with the words *Enjoy, every minute!* engraved in it...Madde & J gave me a small frying pan for making omelets and a cool binder to put recipes in...M.J gave me a tin!!But when  i opend it there was a pendant for a necklace that she had made in it! She had taken an unopend tin, opend it and emptied from the bottom and put the pendant inside!! She is soo clever,well... they all are, my friends! Thank you everyone!! <3

This weekend I intend to sit and read a good book with my cup of honey and ginger tea, with toast and an omelette;o)

xox

Elly

A new day, a new year....It´s my B-day! ( :OS )

                                              The Road Not Taken

                                Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
                                 And sorry I could not travel both
                                And be one traveler, long I stood
                                 And looked down one as far as I could
                                To where it bent in the undergrowth;
                                Then took the other, just as fair,
                                And having perhaps the better claim,
                                Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
                                Though as for that passing there
                                Had worn them really about the same,
                                And both that morning equally lay
                                In leaves no step had trodden black.
                                Oh, I kept the first for another day!
                                Yet knowing how way leads to way,
                                I doubted if I should ever come back.
                                Somewhere ages and ages hence:
                                Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
                                   I took the one less traveled by,
                                And that has made all the difference.

                                                                                  by: Robert Frost


              It´s 00.25 AM in Sweden... that means it´s the 3rd of February & I´m 29 (:0S  )...a step from 30(!!!). I hope this year brings some new paths ...maybe not as large as a freeway but a few small paths here and there....Perhaps artistic paths! or culinary..That would be nice....But as somebody says in  Shakespeare's Macbeth: Come What May! So we will just have to wait and see:)