Caribbean Cooking Club

Emily hosted this month's cooking club, and we went TROPICAL with a Caribbean theme. Nancy started us out with delicious piña coladas. Cheers!



I made grilled shrimp with a garlicky Cuban mojo dipping sauce.



Look at those beautiful flowers!



Emily made plantain tostones with mango salsa!



And some refreshing limeade.



Mmm, islandy!



Valerie made fresh lump crabmeat and salmon cakes, topped with corn salsa and smoky chipotle aioli.This combination was SO great! It had an awesome kick and was just delicious.



Yumi made a big pot of oxtail stew!



With some coconut rice and beans.



The stew was rich and delicious.



Cocktail parasols can make any drink feel more tropical. Tropical glass of wine!



Tropical beer!



It was a lovely night.



Time for some fun and games!



We played Mad Gab, the game where you have to try and quickly sound out the seemingly random words on the card, which when put together make an actual phrase. It is hysterical.

















We finally revived our appetites for dessert!! Summer made a duo of ice creams. Sweet potato ice cream with toasted homemade marshmallows, and a vanilla rum with coconut.



They were FREAKING AWESOME! I probably could have eaten all six bowls!!



Mmmm.



I leave you with some video of our game of Mad Gab.

Lucky Boy

Look at how lucky Ben was tonight! It's fun enough to play video games in your jammies, but to also get to have a lapful of fuzzy, marshmallowy Charlie?!?!? LUCKY!!

Week of Anne: Day Two

Tonight we grilled pizzas! We also had salad.

Oh, also it was a FANCY night. We had wine!

For dessert, we tried a new grill experiment. Grilled s'mores!!! We made little individual s'mores packets in foil.

We also had a Hostess Apple Pie, because there was a pile of just-expired ones on the table here at work, and I snagged one.

Ready to take them out to the grill! Apparently, carrying a tray of s'mores makes me look like an insane person.

We put the grill on between low and medium, and left them in there for about four minutes. They turned out melty and perfect!!

Chocolate lips!

Chowing down!

Melty chocolate face kiss!

The pie took a couple extra minutes. It turned out awesome too!

Charlie is lucky that we had a large bag of marshmallows, because if we had run out of them and gotten desperate, we might have had to throw HIS little marshmallows on the barbie!

Those Little Marshmallows

This morning I was tying my shoes in the living room to go on a run, and I looked into the kitchen, and LOOK what Charlie was doing. Just lying there with his little marshmallows positioned all neat and tidy in front of him!

He kills me!!!!!

Emma the attention monger marched right up into the shot and was like "OH HI!"