Moooo Night

On Saturday night Betty and I were lucky enough to be invited to enjoy Uncle John and Aunty Manisha’s culinary genius. It was aptly themed cow/mooo night because big juicy steaks were being served.

We were told to wear black and white, because it was tradition to wear these colours on moooo nights. Much to Manisha’s amusement we were told it was a joke when Katina, Betty and I hungrily rocked up in our monochromatic best. though there was a centerpiece on the dinner table, which was an adorable cow candle that progressively lost its middle throughout the night. We just assumed it was hungry and wanted to graze.

The food packed night started with feta and cherry tomatoes, and eggplant and potatoes tartlets; followed by a second entrée of eggplant salsa and garlic butter prawns with warm crusty bread, both dishes whipped up by Manisha. (yummmm, drool even though I couldn’t eat the prawns, darn allergies).

Then the main dish was a perfectly rested piece to “mooo”, on a bed of sweet cabbage that had been slow cooked, crusty potatoes and little mushrooms that toppled off the steak. It is a safe measure of yumminess when the whole table falls quiet and is preoccupied with eating. In this case the “mooo” was especially yummy because it was still unusually quiet, even in the presence of the louder ones of us Betty, Katina and Manisha.

For desert, we had big bowls and vanilla ice-cream topped with home made butter scotch saucing, it was so beautiful we all came back for huge seconds and scraped our bowls clean. Apologies for not having a photo of the mouth watering desert we were to busy eating it.

Bon a petit!