Cookery Club New Year

Kikoklu New Years dinner!

We had arranged our New Year gathering at the beginning of December and it was decided that Marianne and Martins turn to be host!

Linda and I had been home and visiting friends and relations the length and breadth of the UK and Northern Ireland over the Christmas and New Year. I had on our travels collected a wide variety of cheeses and these along with various crackers, biscuits and breads would be our part in the meal.

So the Starter was to be Carolyn’s smoked fish

Followed by Marianne’s take on Nigella Lawson’s Tagine

Then came Kalles Dessert, an Orange ice-cream, in a homemade waffle and accompanied by preserved Kumquats in syrup.

Then was our turn with the 13 Cheeses, chutneys, relishes, marmalades, crackers, pickle’s etc.

We gathered at 18:00 (well some of us did, Kalle having been so kind and picked up Carolyn and needed to drop his car off.)   

We started off with a nice Sekt!

Then came Carolyn’s fish dish “Smokie”, it would normally be made with smoked haddock, but this being one fish that they don’t seem to smoke in Germany (though they smoke just about everything else) she used smoked Halibut. It was a very nice tasty starter of a smoked fish, in a cream sauce, baked in the oven with tomatoes and grated cheese.

 

The main course was Marianne’s take on a Nigella Lawson take on a traditional Moroccan dish.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/lambanddatetagine_90621

 

 

It turned out very nice and Marianne served a cous-cous with pomegranate seeds and sliced red onions, chopped coriander and again pomegranate seeds.

Then along came the dessert, this was Kalle’s home-made orange ice-cream in a home-made waffle and some of his wonderful Kumquats in syrup.

Then we presented our cheese board, it was a fine selection of British made cheeses, we had a nice Taylor’s port to accompany them. We had a also decided to have a little quiz, we numbered the cheeses and then told them a little about each one and they then had to put the name to the number. It was all a nice bit of fun.

 

What with the present unpacking,

 

 

 

 

 

 

the eating, drinking

 

and some kissing!

And the embarrassed denial