Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
The Dinner Party
On Sunday, to repay Brian and Ashley, Justin and Tricia, and Susan for their kindly throwing me a birthday party (previously mentioned here and documented here), I threw a little dinner party at mine for them. On the menu: hazelnuts, cheese and champagne grapes to start, followed by Susan's bread salad and my world-famous spaghetti Bolognese. Dessert was my first ever attempt at panna cotta (from scratch!), and my second ever attempt at any dessert, the first being pumpkin pies last Thanksgiving. It was exceptionally good, though I deviated a bit from the recipe and probably shouldn't have as it came out heavier, darker and more vanilla-y than I would have liked. Pictures of the dinner party are here, along with before and after shots, and I'm already looking forward to the next one.