EARTH HOUR DINNER PARTY

I threw a Potluck Dinner Party with eight ladies at my house. Sadly i have no good photos of the food - but for good reason. Without knowing so when i planned it, the dinner party fell on the evening of Earth Hour, so dinner was served only by candle light.
What was supposed to be Earth Hour turned into Earth-Several-Hours, when once the hour passed we decided it was really nice to eat and chat in the glow of the candles (oh and the glow of some city lights in the background that were naughtily not switched off).
It was a bit romantic, really... Marika had said earlier:
"I wonder if anyone'll pash when the lights go out?!"
And we laughed... Nine women. Three lezzo's to six het's. And we'd all known each other some 6 to 15 years...? Chances were pretty slim for a spark in the dark!!


Just look at those few bastardly lights left on in the city... tsk tsk...

Two guests were excused from dish-making duties. One has recently made a baby, after all, and is busy enough making milk like a maniac. And another was excused in light of relationship relationshit.

Though you wont see it for the light, this is the amazing food we had:

MARIKA - Mushroom Soup
LIA - Gyoza Dumplings
(Pumpkin-Coriander-PineNut as well as FieldMushroom-Zucchini)
JESS - Sweet Potato & Cous Cous Salad
ALEX - Bean Salad, Fruit Salad and Soy Choc Icecream
LISA - Vegan Lasagne and Vegan Banana Cake
CARA - Pesto & Vegetable Risotto
(with homemade pesto and veggies from her veggie patch!)
MICHELE - Tiramisu

Oh, here's one i took with flash, of the Lasagne and Risotto being dished up:


Upon eating, some conversation began around the dinner table:
"This is delicious!"
"Thanks. It's from a Good Weekend recipe..."
"Oh, HOW GOOD is the Good Weekend?! I made something from it last night!"

Melissa and i turned to each other in horror at what was being said... How is it that we've gone from rock'n'roll slags to sounding like bloody housewives...?? Funny that the one most horrified, was the only one that's a wife and a mother!
Luckily the conversation then took a welcome dive, as two of the girls recounted a concert ticket fraud operation they undertook in the 90s. And the Smashing Pumpkins concert where they were finally busted and separated, just moments after they'd dropped some acid.




Earth Hour Dinner was awesome, and we plan to make it a monthly occurrence.

The night ended, after guests departed, with a text i received upstairs, coming from Marika in the spare room downstairs:

"Hey chicken im gonna read in bed but likely to fall asleep with light on. Can you please turn it off before you go to bed. Earth xxx"

"Bloody Earth i will!", i should have replied. But she was asleep already.

Earth indeed.

http://www.earthhour.org/