after work on friday, i headed to superstore to buy some ingredients. i've been planning sunny's bridal shower, and in an effort to save some money, and work on my culinary skills, i've decided to make lemon tarts. i never really imagined making them from scratch, as i don't have a lot of time to spare right now, so i found the instant pudding mix, and frozen tart shells. the entire process took about 30 minutes - only because i had the mix ready, but forgot to heat the shells up simultaneously. now i know for next time :-) i even managed to whip together the meringue - i was most impressed w/myself, since i've never done that before either. when i tasted it, it seemed really sweet (and from me, that's saying something!), but after i threw it in the oven on broil for 7 minutes, and tried it w/the complete tart, it was quite yummy! i tasted 2 tarts, just to be sure :-)
later that night, we had a family dinner w/chris' family, as they had out-of-town guests staying w/them, and i've actually never met these guests before. so we went out for chinese food. i was pretty full after dinner, but i still had room for another lemon tart. dang, i make good tarts!
on saturday, i spent the entire day running around doing various things. it was quite hectic, and i still didn't accomplish everything :P anyhoo, on saturday night chris' sister had invited us to a dinner tasting at her wedding venue to see what we thought of the food. the shop had provided some marinated steaks, just to see how the venue cooked them (we wanted them medium rare!). so each steak took up the entire plate! i wanted to try everything, so i was double-plating dinner that night! then there was the chocolate fountain......so yum! i would love to have a fountain at home......the only problem is that they require a lot of chocolate, so you get the fountain effect. i'll have to settle for my fondue. hmmmm, we should have another fondue night......i still have some chocolate and marshmallows to eat!
then came sunday......the motherload of all food-fests. chris' shop just expanded, so they had an open-house bbq/my mother-inlaw's b-day celebration. we ate steaks (these were more on the rare side), lamb chops (medium rare of course!) and boerwors (south african sausages), and 4 different salads, just to offset all the meat we ate. phew! as if that wasn't enough, chris and i then headed over to rev's for our former dragonboat teams bowling fundraiser, complete w/pizza and pop. i don't think bowling burns off any calories :P after such a busy afternoon, chris and i both took a nap.....perhaps we were tired from over-eating. to top off the evening, geoff was in town from TO, so of course we had to go out for drinks and eats. so we had a super late dinner at Five Point consisting of nachos, a dip platter and a lamb sandwich.
so much eating. and now i'm just trying to digest all that food before i catch some zzz's and start off another week.
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