Birthday Bash

On Sunday night we went, with two of Cath's work colleagues, for a meal to celebrate Cath's birthday. It was at a Mediterranean fusion place called The Village, and was very nice in deed. As we have been living on mostly humus and salad for the last couple of weeks we decided that we would push the boat out a little - two courses plus hot chocolates all round.

Rosie, Boyd, the Birthday Girl and Jennie

I had baked aubergines (described as 'gratinated' meaning "with grilled cheese topping"), followed by some fantastic Arab style lamb chops (with four very chunky chips). Cath had lentil soup followed by baked aubergines with more salad. Rosie had a very nice looking starter of prawn salad with a quails egg on a bed of chiffonated lettuce (a poncy way to say "shredded"), followed by mushroom ravioli. Whilst Jennie also had the soup followed by grilled halloumi (a type of cheese), tabbouleh (an Arab minced salad) and brochette (Italian bread). All-in-all a right gastronomic blow out! This was all washed down with mocktails the Qatari take on non-alcoholic cocktails; all very nice but missing a little something "if you know what I mean?". 

Spooky Prawn Salad!