More international dinners

More on the international dinner front. Our group is becoming slight less multicultural with more and more kiwis so we've had to get a bit more creative. My new flatmate Helena is from Germany, but she was born in Kazakhstan (well USSR at least) so she made us a Russian dinner. She wins the effort prize by far - she made traditional dumplings (kind of like ravioli) and we had them with tomato sauce and cabbage and pineapple salad. And she made pancakes (blini) for dessert.

Helena cooking Russian style!Russian eggs and salad

Russian dumplings

Full table for dinner! (Including Andrea in her dressing gown!)

Lisa, Thomas and I had a mini-international dinner of our own - a new Asian supermarket opened in town so to celebrate we had a Japanese dinner!

Martin and Arne (both kiwis who have spent time in Africa) cooked us a southern African meal with a meat stew and this white pastey stuff you eat with your fingers.

Arne and Martin hard at work

How many chefs does it take to cook dinner?

Cheers (in Afrikaans of course)

Eating with your fingers is way fun

Matt demonstrates the correct rolling technique

Matt's also cooked in the last little while. He made an impressive kiwi dinner with corned beef, cabbage and an apple crumble.

Matt's corned beef - it was the first time I'd tried it and very tasty!

Lucy, Matt, Lucy, Helena, Angelo

I've cooked again too - not so typically Aussie but I baked some fish with coriander and lemon and spring onions and made a sticky date pud.

My fish dinner

It was Angelo's last dinner so we had a really full table

This week we're off to Lisa and Thomas' house for a Swiss/German dinner of sausages, sauerkraut and the Sound of Music! Ooh year!