Muy Sabroso

This was easily the most complex cooking endeavour I ever embarked upon. Sure AI Team Dinners in Rotterdam became a handful at times with 15 people signing up but then our objective was not to please but to fill stomachs and there were 4 of us sharing the burden. Of course my team had the incredibly talented Ms. Schroeder so cooking actually involved following directions :)

But I digress. Coming back to this Saturday past...either I allowed my excitement to get the better of me or I just didn't plan the evening to the extent that such an evening demands. However despite a few hiccups, the food came out OK. I think we had a total of 20 people who came and went through the evening when I'd planned for about 12. That resulted in not everyone being able to partake in everything I made but at least no one went away hungry!

Coming to the point, the evening was meant to feature a range of tapas style finger foods and one entree. The menu read as follows:

• Caramelized onion & cheddar cheese served on toasted bread

• Fried Ham Croquettes
  
• Mince chicken canapes (I couldn't find real canapes so made do with some basket shaped potato chips which I fried - end result was pretty good)
  
• Spicy stir fried chili prawns
  
• Nacho Chips and Salsa Sauce ( I just picked these up off the shelf)
  
• Classic Spanish Omelets (stuffed with potato and some cheese)

• Entree - Chicken Fajitas (a wheat & corn flour based dough for the tortillas which were then stuffed with marinated chicken, salsa sauce and cream, served hot)

Helen baked 2 great chocolate cakes which were wiped out in 10 minutes flat! :-)


All told, everything came out the way I had envisioned before. The next time around a little more preparation would make it even better but I think I have all the above now commited to memory. That's the exciting part :-) and most importantly I think everyone had a blast.