The Guinea Pig Dinner Party

It's been a productive week for myself and A preparing for our season. It was A's final week of work so she will now be joining me as an unemployed bum for 2 weeks before we leave. Hopefully it will give her enough time to get through her 'to-do book'.

On Tuesday night we hosted a dinner party for a group of friends and family. We cooked one of the menus that we will be cooking for our chalet guests and if the praise we recieved was genuine rather than mere politeness I think we did pretty darn well.

Our starter was 'Mushroom en Cocotte' which were little individual mushroom bakes with a creamy garlic sauce, topped with puff pastry. I think they looked rather good!

 The main course was Chorizo Pork with Almond and Courgette Rice and Green beans. This was also very nice but we were too busy to remember to take a photograph. I'm not lying, honest! And finally for dessert, A did an excellent job creating a pear and cinnamon tart which recieved rave reviews.

We didn't poison anyone, everyone was very pleased with the meal and many second helpings were dealt so I'm going to write this one off as a success.

And finally, my other success of the week was made at a local charity shop. After searching far and wide for quite some time, my quest is over. I have managed to find myself the perfect, retro, garish, lurid, over the top, out of date, mismatched (but actually very cosy and comfortable) vintage 1980s onesie ski suit! It is beautiful (in a horrendous kind of way)! I definitely won't be too hard to track down on the slopes in this...