This was a particularly special cooking Tuesday, in honour of our fabulousy yummy Mum (London mum not Northern mum!). We did some research into recipes we hadn't made before, as usual, which resulted in a 3 course Vietnamese/ Thai Fusion themed birthday dinner! We made friends with the fishmongers who helped with providing the white and brown crabmeat, advising us on the best white fish for a curry, Red Snapper as it doesn't flake or disintegrate and king prawns for the spring rolls.
On arrival we served our guests with strawberry mojitos to cool off in the evening heat, while everyone had a chance to catch up..& gave us an excuse to run around frantically trying to finish wrapping presents as we got far to preoccupied by the menu!
I must say the Vietnamese spring rolls were a definite highlight as we have wanted to make them for a while but kept putting it off thinking they were too complicated. They were in fact super easy and fun to make, especially the plastic rice paper that you melt in warm water - hours of fun! We are thinking they will also be a quick simple idea for lunches to take to work.
The rest of the evening rolled on with a green fish and crab meat curry, a mango, passionfruit, creme fraiche & ice cream smoothie pudding (recipe below) and lots of bubbles to celebrate such a wonderful lady. There was also a cake mainly to accommodate the candles as we thought no one would have room for anymore food.. but we were wrong and this was completely polished off too! All in all it was a very successful evening but most importantly the birthday girl enjoyed it!
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