Day Fifteen - Thursday Tapas

On Thursday Little Kim, The Spik and I held our first dinner party at home.  With tapas decided on for dinner and guest requirements allocated we set about deciding on what we would, quite literally, bring to the table.  After a quick calculation on the amount of money left in our kitty, at that stage it owed The Spik bucks, we decided on raiding the freezer for our portion.  We ended up making it all except for the hummus and bread, we vowed next time to make the hummus as well!

The Spik and Little Kim did an amazing job preparing dinner, I was stuck on N2 traffic (what’s new?) and dispatched to the store for a last minute purchase of greek yogurt for the tzatziki. I came home to the meat balls waiting in the microwave, bread ready to serve, The Spik on chicken and Little Kim on meatballs.   I quickly found myself a spot at the table and started on the sauces.

Our tapas dinner consisted of; beer battered chicken strips, meat balls, crudités, bread, tzatziki, hummus, potato wedges and a pink dipping sauce.  Mich also added to this with some yummy samosa’s which we started climbing into beforehand. 

Dinner was a great success with interesting conversations running around the table and of course the usual googling of some shady character that we heard a shady story about.  We wrapped up with dessert brought by Lily and Lolo – delicious tin roof ice cream and triple chocolate mousse that coupled with cupcakes from Mich, completed our dinner and our appetites for the evening!

Day twelve - tea time macaroons

With the burra friends visiting us I felt tea would definitely be the order of the day.  So on finding Daniela’s macaroons on sale at the I Heart Market, I could not resist.  With R10 a delicious round of crusty shell and velvety centre plus a sixth free when ordering five, I was sold and we had tea for Sunday!  I chose six different flavours so we would each be able to have a taster.  One Chai, Peanut butter and sea salt, Pistachio, Strawberry, Passion Fruit and Chocolate macaroon later we were all sighing in pleasure.  How can you not after feasting on macaroons!

We each had different views on the best flavours and a full-fledged discussion on the best flavour ensued.  With Little Kim and Bundle of Se agreeing on the peanut butter and sea salt topping the list, Miss Kirsti’s sweet tooth was sold on the Pistachio, while also finishing off the Strawberry. For me the chocolate is always a winner as it even tasted of chocolate and not something trying to impersonate chocolate, which I find is often the case with ‘bought’ chocolate treats.

Daniela’s has just YAY opened an outlet in Umhlanga and has others in Hilcrest and Capetown, with speciality cakes and high teas being their order of business (click here for a look at a brochure) along with supplying macaroons to numerous restaurants in the area, Daniela’s macaroons truly are a deliciously decadent experience.  Like them here on Facebook for more information on how to enjoy your own deliciously decadent Daniela’s experience.