Dinner at A & L's - Fri, 25th Jan 2008

Last night I had the pleasure of dining at A & L's house and also meeting A's lovely Mummy and Dad.

AB, P and I brought some food each; and by the end of the evening; drinking tea and eating desserts in the living room, the ladies were all comfortable enough to all end up sitting on the floor! A & L - thank you for a very nice evening - it was a pleasure to be invited to your home to share a lovely meal with your family and friends. (Thank you for the tea too).

Here's the food laden table with 2 huge platters of pasta made by A.

Please visit Pablo's & Reeda's blogs for more pics and words.

I brought some herb crusted roast beef. The crust is made up of some flour, homemade wholemeal breadcrumbs, mixed herbs, grainy mustard, salt & black pepper and olive oil. Pat firmly on surface of meat and put meat on onion wedges. Roast slowly (Oven mark 5/6) for approx 2 hours. Let the meat rest for 45 mins before slicing. Serve with pepper cream sauce and hot English mustard.

Here is Reeda's photo of me slicing the meat. Oooh - the meat is pretty rare in the middle.

And P's photo of the meat,

before being simply garnished with A's roast potatoes and a few sprigs of spring onion.

Reeda's roast shoulder of lamb.

A's seafood pasta with a most unusual orange sauce which complemented the prawns and mussels.

Garlic and Anchovy Dip with Extra Virgin Olive Oil

These fat little pillows of soft roasted garlic are very sweet; with anchovies (John West), black pepper, parsley and olive oil.

Bunny's dessert (no, this is not straight out of a cookbook although it well could be, but from here.

Photogs - P, Badi and Reeds.