Biennale Part 2, Italian Raya and those chicken pies

The weekend and today was a whirlwind. There were those 700 pieces of chicken pie and sausage rolls that were made yesterday.

There was the Italian themed lunch I hosted as an Eid get together with the girlfriends. It was great fun, and let me thank all the people with the food they brought, sadly, no pictures because as hostess I was busy making sure everyone had a fork. If anyone is going to blog about the lunch, link it here!

Farah for the brushetta

Enah for the wonderful oreo shake

Mel for the salad

Yati for the creamy pasta with bacon and roast chicken

Liz: for the yummy apple strudel and the ice cream

Yani for the ice cream that became affogato, how ice cream and espresso taste so good together is a mystery

Rizal, Yati’s husband for gmely going along with all the girl talk and H, as usual for being my marketing partner and always appreciating my cooking. I made a seafood pasta with small white clams, squid and prawns

Photograph from another Italian dinner last May

Here’s the recipe

Seafood spagetti:

For 1 packet of spagetti (I really have to check the weight) This will feed about 10-12 people as a main couse

10 cloves of garlic, diced

About 10 anchovy fillets, diced

8 tomatos, diced

Prawn, Squid and clams, about a kilo each and 300g of clams

A bunch of chopped basil

Fry garlic till fragrant. Add anchovies and it’ll splatter like crazy. Add the tomatoes and all the seafood, lots of liquid will suddenly appear, cook till reduced slightly. Add the spagetti and basil, season with salt and pepper cautiously as the anchovies are really very salty.

Here’s from Husaini’s facebook: ….farmland and mountains for miles……. H and I spent a day with Husaini who was in transit and headed back to his new home in Christchurch. As usual, we always try to squeeze so much into the day. Of all things he wanted to have, it was fast food like Burger King since its not halal in NZ. I had so many fast food meals this week for some strange reason, so it wasn’t what I really wanted to have. Still, the company was fun and we had a pretty good time together.  

Here’s the rest of the photos from Biennale, I’m back to work so may disappear for a while.. I have to fulfill my call quota for October so that means 2 nights sleeping in hospital the rest of this week. Wish me luck..