Sunday, May 07, 2006

Dinner last night



Last night we had a wonderful dinner with friends who helped us to organize our day one month ago:) Almost all of them could come except for Mara and Mark who, I think haven't checked their email as they were on pilgrimage for 9 days just before that. We truly missed them, but, nevertherless had a lot of fun. I cooked Russian Borsh (beet root and cabbage soup), a vegetarian version of it, Russian salad "Sunny" with crab sticks, and some Russian style mini sandwiches which we call "buterbrody" (roll your "r" while trying to say the word). Amir cooked Pansit, an Asian style noodles, Chinese spring rolls FROM SCRATCH! They were soooooo yummy! He also fried some fish- and shrimp-balls for a snack. We had a watermelon for dessert with some tea and cookies. We finally tried to use our coffee set that was given to us as a wedding gift, it was fun, as I have never made coffee before on the reason that I don't drink coffee:) Everything turned out so well, and it happened that we did this dinner on 6 May, which is one day away from our 1 month anniversary, and, it was Amir's first cousin's birthday who just came here three days ago for a 18 months service. He is such a sweet guy, his name is Quddus. I was so happy to meet one more family member of Amir after tatay (Philippinos call father "tatay" and mother "nanay").