callistra | Dinner Party was good

mynxii's dinner party last night was excellent.

splanky made her famouse cheese balls but every one ate them while we were running around a park in the dark *pout* but I did get some and they were, of course, fantastic! Yummy yummy yum yum yum.

I made satay pumpkin soup for my course, but I think the chili sauce bottle slipped in my hand (I swear it was only a tablespoon full) and the entire soup was a bit too hot for some people (my bad. Next time I will do better!) But we had sour cream or natural yoghurt, and fresh chopped coriander (it's just the best finish.) There was heaps and heaps of soup. Four pumpkins worth in fact. *sigh*

Main course consisted of roast lamb (by

mynxii and three vegetable courses all done by SG. There was stirfried capsicums and a fennel and mandarine salad and also baked potatoes and also rockmelon and zucchini stuff it was all yummy.

However, the peice d'resistance. (Whatever.) Was ST's dessert(s).

Hazelnut Praline semi-freddo.

It was divine. FT and I were fighting over who got the teaspoons so we could draw it out for longer, tiniest bit by tiniest bit. Absolutely awesome, sweet and delightful, but not too sweet, with crunchy nuts and praline and OH MY GOD who needs sex?? I needed a cigarette!! *sigh* And now life goes on and the pleasures are over. I snuck into the freezer later and stole a second bowl. *grin*

ST also made lemon tarts to go with coffee. Mmmmmmmmmmm. Mmmmmmm. Made great breakfasts too. Sans coffee. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

There was a fair amount of drinking. Thinking back, we didn't drink as much as we often do. But we were certainly raucaus and drunk! Chesh and I took a 2 litre boxmonster (one of the good ones though) and shared that around, and NH had brought a margaret river wine, so once the boxmonster was over we all drank that. There were a number of us helping here, about five or six people. After all that was over,

splanky and

mynxii were being very kind with their bourbon and southern comfort.

We played Vox Pop. (The Disk Game.) They suggested "I was a delicate flower" and I was laughing too hard to really notice what sort of responses that got! The disk game is similar in ways to Never Ever and Truth Dare and Torture but for non-teenagers. :-) I don't want to give too much away because one day I'd like to research developing it as a product for sale so I can be rich and get rid of this alcohol budget thing.
;-)

Oh yeah, I should use my blog to keep track of my alcohol expenditure for the month.

May - $10 so far. (I think it was ten bucks. It might have been 12. But that's OK.)