Happy Hallowe'en
Hallowe'en
is still my favourite non-holiday holiday. This Hallowe'en is the first in 3 years that Riccardo and I have been able to celebrate together (last year he was in Germany, and the year before, Japan, both for work) so we decided to have a little shindig. I even carved a little Hello Kitty jack-o-lantern! Since we bought masks when we were in
Venice, we decided to use them and be masquerading Venetians. We even rented Riccardo a hooded cloak. Very scary! But, boy are those masks annoying to wear! - mine lasted about half an hour!Wholly against British tradition, I made the dinner pot-luck. Who wants to cook all day, geez!? Well, actually, I still did cook all day, because I tried a new recipe (rice, mushroom and cheese filo pie - mmmmm!), made 160 wontons (most of whic
h we froze for Christmas), and baked camembert with walnuts. Riccardo tried to make his famous pizza, mini style, but they all stuck to the pizza stones - disaster! Nonetheless, the great thing about pot-luck is that you get to try different dishes, and I didn't have to do the dessert, which I suck at.So, as I said, we provided pie, cheese, wontons and mini-pizzas. Mike and Liz came and brought more mini pizzas (this tim
e on puff pastry) and oatmeal cookies. Beata and Martin brought a veggie salad and a lemon cake. Mari brought Chinese pudding. And Kate and Rob brought beef curry. Delicious - all of it! After our extensive 3-course meal, the gang proceeded to play board games. Laughs were had by all. Remember, N.B.M.A stands for, National Bank of Mexico, Actually. Thanks for that one, Liz!
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