Fried Friday is always my favorite day of the week, mainly because as the name suggests, it's the start of the weekend celebrated with food.
I've been eating soup for lunch and dinner all week, which is nice in winter, but Fried Friday started with a fresh cinnamon donut this morning (one of my colleagues practically forced me to eat it!) and tonight, I made red wine and parmesan cheese risotto with goats cheese. It is really, really, really good and really, really, really easy to make. I'm very impressed with the results. I can confidently say I have mastered the art of a creamy risotto.
I cooked these cupcakes last week, but with the long weekend and a busy week at work I've only just round to posting them!
I've made cupcakes millions of times before, but they are always picture worthy. Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing = classic.
This is a very quick post, primarily just to brag.
This is the second time I have attempted to make a souffle, with the first time time being a miserable failure. While it tasted good, it didn't rise very well. However, my second attempt was a fabulous and equally delicious success; Hot Raspberry Souffle (yay! it worked)
As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, this week's adventure was an Indian dinner party.
I cooked butter chicken, bombay beef and yellow lentil dahl served with naan bread, poppadums, cucumber and mint raita, and mango chutney, finished off with chai tea. The chutney, naan and poppadums were store bought of course (not enough time to knead dough etc. on a Friday night!), but I'm actually pretty proud of the curries and the chai - all made from scratch and I now have a food cupboard full of spices and a home that smells of spices and curry.
My mates said it was all full of flavour, and there were no left overs; I guess that's always a good sign ;) India isn't a country I would particularly want to visit, mainly because I don't like crowds and I don't think I could stand to see the poverty. However, I do like Indian food and will never bother buying Indian sauces in a jar ever again, the results of making it yourself are tenfold more flavorsome.
I'm going to take this opportunity to warn my readers to expect to see a LOT of European food over the coming months. I have decided to go to Europe in 2012, for my *cough* 30th birthday - England, France, Spain, Italy, and Greece are all on the list. Let the saving begin!
