Weekend Fun!

I had the house full of friends to celebrate a very good friend's birthday. The theme was Italian (with a few Asian bits added on request). Here are some pictures I took - unfortunately not all pictures came out well to publish but below is the menu;

Tomato and mozzarella bruschetta
Spicy Italian meatballs in a tomato sauce with spaghetti
Lemon and basil pesto chicken with parpadelle pasta
Mince and onion pizza (hubby's request)

Non Italian
Spicy vegetable samosas
Chicken curry

Dessert - death by chocolate
Decadent chocolate mousse
Chocolate cake
Chocolate chip cookies
Pizza       Trio of dessertSpicy Italian Meatballs in rich tomato sauce

Coming soon

I made a rather nice orange and almond cake the other week.
I have the recipe and pictures saved and with renewed vigour will get round to putting it up here, along with the joint effort that I and my other half prepared on New Year's Eve (stuffed baked garlic mushroom; chicken casserole with chunky roast chips and a very lemony lemon tart)...

Back in business

I didn't realise it had been September since my last blog post.
Since then, I've embraced the wonderful world of Twitter (@nailalaundy) but to be honest I'm still getting the hang of it.
Anyway, it's back to the blog and here are some pictures of what's been cooking lately...

This is an intense curry sauce I created for a couple of my colleagues at work.

 These were a batch of chocolate chip cookies that went down well with my other half's workmates...

 Everyone loves a gooey, sticky, lemon drizzle cake (the recipe is below)...

 And these were out of the oven today!

Snowing outside, so what better than shepherd's pie for tea!