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So I sat down and thought... what do I like to do? How can I make my (our) birthday party something that makes me happy, and Chesh too?
One of the things I always love is group cooking. Love it love it love it. So I came up with a plan. Group cooking from 1pm onwards and then feasting from 5pm onwards for those who don't want to cook.
We had such a great time! We had it on the 11th as the 12th (my actual birthday) was booked for a Christmas party for the boys with rides and presents and lollies and the circus and everything! Despite that, I kind of shelved the fact that was on, other than not booking anything else on for that day.
So, the cooking.... (an evil part of me wants to call it The Cookening!) I set up a big tupperware container for trash and another one for dirty utensils, and collected every knife, peeler, chopping board, mixing bowl and dish and set them up on a trestle table outside the kitchen, which worked really really well. I also printed out 2 copies of each recipe we were doing. Every one who wanted to do a little cooking could do, and every one who just wanted to sit around and chat could do that too, and we all took turns in doing stuff.
It was perfect. We made turkish style pizzas, which we ate ALL of. I can not believe we ate all of those! We made a HUGE amount of baba ganouj. This one had yoghurt in it too, making it deliciously creamy as well as garlicky. We also made my turkish style kebabs, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE. I think it's my favourite dish in that book. Plus the sweet potato salad Chesh loves, the chicken pie every one loves, and an eggplant dish we kind of made up ourselves which started as Eggplant with Walnut and Garlic and morphed into 'with tomato and yoghurt sauce and chickpeas'. Just delicious!
If any one loves group cooking, may I highly recommend just doing it! It can take a little work and prep, and you need to do it a few times to know where the slow points with your friends and kitchen will be, but just do it! It's so great to cook all day with friends and then feast.
This is one of my favouritest birthday celebrations evah!
Yay 36! Welcome to a brand new year!
One of the things I always love is group cooking. Love it love it love it. So I came up with a plan. Group cooking from 1pm onwards and then feasting from 5pm onwards for those who don't want to cook.
We had such a great time! We had it on the 11th as the 12th (my actual birthday) was booked for a Christmas party for the boys with rides and presents and lollies and the circus and everything! Despite that, I kind of shelved the fact that was on, other than not booking anything else on for that day.
So, the cooking.... (an evil part of me wants to call it The Cookening!) I set up a big tupperware container for trash and another one for dirty utensils, and collected every knife, peeler, chopping board, mixing bowl and dish and set them up on a trestle table outside the kitchen, which worked really really well. I also printed out 2 copies of each recipe we were doing. Every one who wanted to do a little cooking could do, and every one who just wanted to sit around and chat could do that too, and we all took turns in doing stuff.
It was perfect. We made turkish style pizzas, which we ate ALL of. I can not believe we ate all of those! We made a HUGE amount of baba ganouj. This one had yoghurt in it too, making it deliciously creamy as well as garlicky. We also made my turkish style kebabs, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE. I think it's my favourite dish in that book. Plus the sweet potato salad Chesh loves, the chicken pie every one loves, and an eggplant dish we kind of made up ourselves which started as Eggplant with Walnut and Garlic and morphed into 'with tomato and yoghurt sauce and chickpeas'. Just delicious!
If any one loves group cooking, may I highly recommend just doing it! It can take a little work and prep, and you need to do it a few times to know where the slow points with your friends and kitchen will be, but just do it! It's so great to cook all day with friends and then feast.
This is one of my favouritest birthday celebrations evah!
Yay 36! Welcome to a brand new year!
