Suddenly, talk of glittery numbers, paper scrolls with menu choices, rifling around the host's house and drunken reviews in the taxi ride home was hot on the agenda.And yes, we even received our menu the morning of the dinner party:
How delightful!Upon arrival, we settled down to the faint sound of High School Musical 2 in the background, and were greeted with our dips and nibbles:
I'm very jealous of the plate! I'd love to have things like that (which I could just go out and buy of course, but never think to do so). The smell of chicken was wafting out of the kitchen and our noses took us to the table shortly after Suze dished up the main course:
The chicken was perfect! Piping hot, moist and the cheese was not too overpowering. The first thing I wonder whenever I cut into oven-roasted or grilled chicken is whether it is going to be dry or not. But mm, this was delicious! The parma ham was the icing on the er, chicken. Yum!
I love great presentation when it comes to food and it is one of the reasons why I got snap-happy in the first place with all my food pics and this dessert tops my collection of beautifully-presented food:
The individually-named ginger cookies has upped a game that has only just begun! I couldn't finish the chocolate as I can't handle too much sweet but it turned out we weren't expected to be able to finish the pot anyway. (Although Grace managed to, good effort!)
So, the plates were empty and the verdicts were in:
39...so the bar has been set...
I can't wait for our next Come Dine With Me evening now - it was so nice to eat dinner around a table with friends and having posh chats. Well, not entirely posh since our conversations ranged from show-jumping to wondering how pineapples grow. And I probably lowered the height of sophistication we had going on when I absentmindedly filled up my glass with Archer's, to the horror of the hostess. For some reason, I thought it was one of those large alcopop bottles, but um, no, it was the spirit. I did wonder why everyone went quiet and then burst into hysterics.
Whoops.
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I'm very jealous of the plate! I'd love to have things like that (which I could just go out and buy of course, but never think to do so). The smell of chicken was wafting out of the kitchen and our noses took us to the table shortly after Suze dished up the main course:
The chicken was perfect! Piping hot, moist and the cheese was not too overpowering. The first thing I wonder whenever I cut into oven-roasted or grilled chicken is whether it is going to be dry or not. But mm, this was delicious! The parma ham was the icing on the er, chicken. Yum!I love great presentation when it comes to food and it is one of the reasons why I got snap-happy in the first place with all my food pics and this dessert tops my collection of beautifully-presented food:
The individually-named ginger cookies has upped a game that has only just begun! I couldn't finish the chocolate as I can't handle too much sweet but it turned out we weren't expected to be able to finish the pot anyway. (Although Grace managed to, good effort!)So, the plates were empty and the verdicts were in:
39...so the bar has been set...I can't wait for our next Come Dine With Me evening now - it was so nice to eat dinner around a table with friends and having posh chats. Well, not entirely posh since our conversations ranged from show-jumping to wondering how pineapples grow. And I probably lowered the height of sophistication we had going on when I absentmindedly filled up my glass with Archer's, to the horror of the hostess. For some reason, I thought it was one of those large alcopop bottles, but um, no, it was the spirit. I did wonder why everyone went quiet and then burst into hysterics.
Whoops.
Read more Hungry Jenny Come Dine With Me
Young Ng! 'tis me Dan! at last i am managing to stay in touch, and must say, loving the blog so far! FYI Pineapples grow on bushes up from the ground, sounds strange to me really as i would have pictured them in trees, but i was walking through pineapple fields in SA and pinched a few on my travels each day! yum, yum....xx
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