new year's eve

darcie, steph and thi hanging out in the pillow corner (photo by anna)

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this posting is for the folks who wanted to come along to my place on new year’s but couldn’t make it for one reason or other – it was a chill evening with good food and lots of talking sauce… i present for you here photos, our menu for the evening, and a recipe that pete asked for.

new year’s eve menu

red pepper dip (recipe below)
hummus
bruschetta (tomato garlic and olive tapenade topped with jack cheese)
salmon soup
vegetarian chili
green salad
homemade bread (by giles)
chocoloate cupcakes
apple crisp with soy vanilla ice cream
cheesecake squares
truffles (made by darcie)
fruit cake
mulled wine

me and anna hanging out with the new scarf that steph knitted

giles reading from the robbie burns tome

sean and michelle – smiling parents-to-be

pete chilling on the floor

steph scarf dancing in the dining room

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red pepper dip

5-6 cloves of peeled garlic
2 cups of roasted red peppers (you can roast them and skin them yourself or use roasted peppers packed in water)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
3 tablespoons olive oil
oregano
1 cup of loose, washed spinach leaves

throw the cloves of garlic into the food processor, then add everything else in order except the spinach and puree until nice and smooth, then add the spinach leaves at the end and pulse a few more times to chop the leaves and add colour.