Give Me Bananas

Who knew that polenta could be so aggressive? It.. well.. bubbled a little and some of it landed on my arm. Yes the description sounds silly but I have no idea how else I should describe it. It looked like it attacked me. Anyways it left me with this:

Sorry it’s a bit gross but I just wanted to say: Beware when you cook polenta! It might attack you for no reason!

The rest of the evening went very very well. It started off with a nice salad:

(With Hello Kitty napkins! Yes we are 6 years old!)

And then I forgot to take a picture of the main course. (Too much wine & Too exciting conversations are to blame)
But there’s a recipe:

(Serves 5)

Polenta with Zucchini and Mushrooms
(doesn’t this title sound extremely exciting?)

Ingredients:

• Polenta
• Veggie broth
• one large zucchini
• 5-8 large mushrooms
• white cooking wine
• vegetarian margarine
• 1 onion
• handful of parsley
• olive oil
• 1 egg (optional)
• Parmesan cheese (optional

Directions:

Cook the polenta in veggie broth according to the directions on the back of the package. I used large-grained polenta so it took about 40 minutes to cook. In the mean time sauté the zucchini slices in a frying pan, add a little salt and put them in the oven on low heat.

Slice the mushrooms and add them with a little olive oil and the chopped onion to the used frying pan. Cook until soft. Add a little white cooking wine and let it cook on a low heat.

In the mean time (there’s a lot of multitasking required) check on the polenta and add an egg and Parmesan cheese before serving. Stir well. Add some margarine to the mushrooms and later some parsley before serving.

Serve everything together and enjoy .

Happy & stuffed people drinking way too much wine. (Ok, Selina doesn’t seem too happy but I’m pretty sure she was )

I just noticed that I cooked the mushrooms in almost the same way like last Wednesday. Just that you don’t get a wrong picture: I never cooked them like that before and this was a pure coincidence.
I also didn’t cook according to a recipe. I just went with the flow and was quite pleased with the results. It’s weird but cooking for friends/family without a recipe always freaked me out. I guess I just wanted to make sure that I could blame the recipe if something went wrong . But now I feel quite ok with cooking “freely”

So yes, I posted that recipe but I’ve got to tell you that I didn’t measure anything and just pasted it until it seemed fine. I highly encourage you to do the same because after all we all have different taste buds.

The night ended with a piece of nut croissant, a brownie and a tiny scoop of banana ice cream

(Brilliant photo, don’t you agree?)

It was fantastic to catch up with my friends again and play some silly games

Selina was super focused.

The game we played was actually called “Stadt Land Fluss” (City Country River). Does anyone else know this game or is it only one that Swiss people play?

Our mini-party ended with a visit from the boyfriend. Don’t you just love that they come running when they hear the word “brownie”??

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