Well, the young sir recently became a one-year-old, and to celebrate this occasion we organised a bit of a shindig at our place, with various food-related things. I'm not entirely sure why, but I really wanted to make it so that most of the food wasn't just from opening packets and reheating the contents.
I don't actually have pics of everything - in the midst of meeting and greeting, and keeping an eye on where X was, my camera was put to the side. Mum and Dad brought along some garlic and fried shallot chicken wings that they made, and some char siu, and some roast suckling pig (chopped babe!) that they picked up, J brought along some homemade sausage rolls (that got some time in our oven), E brought along some cake portioned into the cutest little cubes, W brought along some jelly cups, and we also had a platter of deli meats (sopressa and capocollo - thanks to B for introducing us to this one!), cheeses (a margaret river cheddar, a wheel of camembert), and duck liver cracked pepper pate, crackers (of the water and savoy varieties), crisps, and some dips (roasted capsicum and eggplant, hommus, and creamy kalamata olive). On the sweeter side, I had pre-shaped a batch of gingernuts, and choc mint cookies, and also had some lime meltaways, and a few choc chip cookies, and baked a few of each to have on some plates too.
Above is X's birthday cake. It was actually the top layer from our wedding cake, made by Decay's mum. She also re-iced and re-decorated, with the giraffe topper found by DKtE. This was a very potent fruit cake that I don't think X got to try - he might've been knocked for six from the alcohol that went into keeping this preserved!
And this would be what the inside of the birthday/wedding cake looked like. Tasty and delicious! Probably just as well we had it this year - much longer and just standing next to it might render P-platers unable to drive!
So that X could have some birthday cake (and others who didn't want such an alcoholic kick!), I made a couple of marbled cream cheese pound cakes as well. Apparently, giraffes continue to be a theme in X's life, so the marbling is meant to be reminiscent of giraffe colourings *grin* There is a recipe for this, but I'll have to find the sheet I printed off and scribbled all over, because there was a bit adjustment made to a few recipes to get the above.
We also made spinach and feta triangles. We were going to just wing it with a recipe, but funnily enough the packet of frozen spinach had one on the back! Just goes to show how often we go buying frozen spinach - this would be the very first time, after having heard of boxes of the stuff in American recipes and the like. Anyways, spinach + feta + puff pastry = tasty treats that X had a few corners of (:
I don't actually have pics of everything - in the midst of meeting and greeting, and keeping an eye on where X was, my camera was put to the side. Mum and Dad brought along some garlic and fried shallot chicken wings that they made, and some char siu, and some roast suckling pig (chopped babe!) that they picked up, J brought along some homemade sausage rolls (that got some time in our oven), E brought along some cake portioned into the cutest little cubes, W brought along some jelly cups, and we also had a platter of deli meats (sopressa and capocollo - thanks to B for introducing us to this one!), cheeses (a margaret river cheddar, a wheel of camembert), and duck liver cracked pepper pate, crackers (of the water and savoy varieties), crisps, and some dips (roasted capsicum and eggplant, hommus, and creamy kalamata olive). On the sweeter side, I had pre-shaped a batch of gingernuts, and choc mint cookies, and also had some lime meltaways, and a few choc chip cookies, and baked a few of each to have on some plates too.
Above is X's birthday cake. It was actually the top layer from our wedding cake, made by Decay's mum. She also re-iced and re-decorated, with the giraffe topper found by DKtE. This was a very potent fruit cake that I don't think X got to try - he might've been knocked for six from the alcohol that went into keeping this preserved!
And this would be what the inside of the birthday/wedding cake looked like. Tasty and delicious! Probably just as well we had it this year - much longer and just standing next to it might render P-platers unable to drive!
So that X could have some birthday cake (and others who didn't want such an alcoholic kick!), I made a couple of marbled cream cheese pound cakes as well. Apparently, giraffes continue to be a theme in X's life, so the marbling is meant to be reminiscent of giraffe colourings *grin* There is a recipe for this, but I'll have to find the sheet I printed off and scribbled all over, because there was a bit adjustment made to a few recipes to get the above.
We also made spinach and feta triangles. We were going to just wing it with a recipe, but funnily enough the packet of frozen spinach had one on the back! Just goes to show how often we go buying frozen spinach - this would be the very first time, after having heard of boxes of the stuff in American recipes and the like. Anyways, spinach + feta + puff pastry = tasty treats that X had a few corners of (:
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