Gourmet night

Every so often we have a night in our family which we rather pretentiously call "Gourmet Night"!
We spend the afternoon cooking something which we have never cooked before, Rick and I usually do one course and Lilian and Katie do another.





We usually make a day of it, and so when Rick, Katie and Reuben arrived we put up the play tent in the garden, basically to stop Reuben, "helping" me in the greenhouse!
He enjoyed crawling up and down the tunnel between the tents!
Reuben in the Tunnel
We spent the afternoon making the meal.
Katie did superb starter,
"Tartlet of creamy leek and goat's cheese, balsamic syrup, crispy carrot and Parma ham"
Rick and I produced "Pan-fried Tuna with bean salad, buttered new potatoes and crispy potato shavings"
Lilian's desert was "Chocolate torte with garden raspberries and chocolate drizzle" (No picture available, it didn't last long enough!)
Now you know what I mean by pretentious!
Afterward we introduced Rick and Katie to a crazy Amish game called "Dutch Blitz" which was going well until someone in the excitement knocked a glass of water over the cards and soaked them!
We finished by playing "crockinole" in the front room. A good night.