the last christmas party of 2007
it came slightly late, but nevertheless, still fun! this time round, it was a potluck party, and everything tasted great! yum!
the food - siu yee prepared the starter, which was pate spread with biscuits; pauline was "arrowed" to prepare potato salad, it's refreshing having green apples and raisins instead of the usual bacon bits, err... slightly healthier too; wendy&giles brought along spaghetti bolognese, i like the sauce (very generous with the beef and sausages!); my mum helped with the roasted chickens, we had almost nothing to do with it (oh yes, it was supposed to be turkey but the stores ran out of small-sized turkeys, but chickens are probably more economical... haha, and more tender of course), and lastly, i made the tiramisu (!), glad it turned out edible... but i think it can do better with a stronger flavour of rum and stronger espresso. btw, the recipe is taken from williams-sonoma, and can be found here. [changes made: i only used 250gm of mascarpone cheese, 5 egg yolks, 1/2 cup sugr, and added extra rum to the coffee.]
we made everybody put on reindeer hairbands and santa hats for the party (of course, some were more cooperative than the others :P)... even the two babies took turns to put on the baby-sized santa hat, so cute huh! and it's a good thing mikel didn't sleep through the party! after the food, we did our presents exchange - i received a lovely belt from lexin, too bad she & ben couldn't join us... and to my dearest, now you know this belt does NOT come with the pants, so don't keep asking! :P the bf got a pair of billabong slippers from pauline (don't worry, it fits perfectly and it's not gay lah...).
a group picture with all our presents.
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it came slightly late, but nevertheless, still fun! this time round, it was a potluck party, and everything tasted great! yum!
the food - siu yee prepared the starter, which was pate spread with biscuits; pauline was "arrowed" to prepare potato salad, it's refreshing having green apples and raisins instead of the usual bacon bits, err... slightly healthier too; wendy&giles brought along spaghetti bolognese, i like the sauce (very generous with the beef and sausages!); my mum helped with the roasted chickens, we had almost nothing to do with it (oh yes, it was supposed to be turkey but the stores ran out of small-sized turkeys, but chickens are probably more economical... haha, and more tender of course), and lastly, i made the tiramisu (!), glad it turned out edible... but i think it can do better with a stronger flavour of rum and stronger espresso. btw, the recipe is taken from williams-sonoma, and can be found here. [changes made: i only used 250gm of mascarpone cheese, 5 egg yolks, 1/2 cup sugr, and added extra rum to the coffee.]
we made everybody put on reindeer hairbands and santa hats for the party (of course, some were more cooperative than the others :P)... even the two babies took turns to put on the baby-sized santa hat, so cute huh! and it's a good thing mikel didn't sleep through the party! after the food, we did our presents exchange - i received a lovely belt from lexin, too bad she & ben couldn't join us... and to my dearest, now you know this belt does NOT come with the pants, so don't keep asking! :P the bf got a pair of billabong slippers from pauline (don't worry, it fits perfectly and it's not gay lah...).
a group picture with all our presents.