Dinner Party!

On Saturday night my wonderful friend Emily and I hosted what was no doubt the dinner party of the century (modest, eh?) in an (extremely early!) celebration of our friend Kirby's birthday.
We spent all of Saturday cooking and ended up with enough food for about twenty, despite the fact that we'd only invited eight of our friends! A big thank you to all our lovely friends who attended for making it such a fun and entertaining night (and to Kirby, for the photos that follow)
xx

the table.

like I said, there was enough food for twenty!

the feature of the main meal - the edible garden! We were all surprised when the 'soil' actually tasted nice!

the feature of the dessert - hamburger cupcakes! 100% cupcake

group shot!

Wow.

Today I fell in love.

I found an amazing website which pairs foods together, but based on their scientific properties. I have a flavour thesaurus which I adore, but that pairs things on taste alone. Foodpairing scientifically analyses the flavour components of ingredients and matches them up with ingredients with similar components. After 5 years of research, they launched their website which allows subscribers to enter ingredients and see what its perfect match is. I had a play around, and it told me that tomato sauce and strawberry and banana is a perfect match! I might have to have a play around in the kitchen and see what recipe I can create that includes all 3 ingredients ... This could get interesting!
It turns out heaps of cocktail makers and chefs use it - including Burch and Purchese of the Sweet Studio in South Yarra, which I just adore.

Check it out: www.foodpairing.com