Black Tie Dinner for FEVA

Dinner was held at Ryde Anglican Centre, FEVA is a church for College of Fine Arts, UNSW and UTS's visual art students. The dinner was mainly for old members and staff who have the money to donate towards the church. (This church doesn't get any financial support from the diocese nor any other larger organisations).

So last night was good, unfortunately no photos and I did put a bid down on the silent auction, but alas, they raised the reserve price of the pearl necklaces so I didn't try any more... even though my ebay instincts were kicking in and screaming at me to bid, bid! It was pretty but not that pretty.

So it started around 1900 or so, everybody was dressed lovely-like. I wore my engagement ring which is of course stunningly beautiful. ;) The dinner had a modern Asian theme, there were some beautiful prints done by the FEVA students, stunning, very mod Asian (Belinda bought one of the prints at the end of the night).

I drank around 6 glasses of coconut juice (2 not being my own - 2 of the gals don't drink coconut juice - shock horror!! That's one of my favourite summer drinks) and had another few glasses of sparkling grape juice as well. The lime drink I passed on but Michelle unfortunately got a glass, and didn't finish it.

Entree:
- Asian clear noodles, roast duck and plum sauce salad - can you believe people haven't ever eaten duck??
- or Vietnamese prawn and cabbage salad - not bad, ate a piece of chilli that shocked me a bit

Mains (this was to share):
- Beef rendang
- Mee goreng - nicely done I have to say :)
- Hainan chicken - yum! I finished the dish off
- Stir fried vegies
- Chicken curry - traditional kinda curry, tasted like the ones we make at home
- Prawns (I think) in a sweet and sour sauce - it was quite sweet
- Steamed rice
- Pandan coconut rice

Dessert
- Poached pear in red wine with a dark chocolate ganache sauce - looked very, very nice but alas
- or Ginger and lime creme brulee with a coconut wafer - alright, but I think I woulda risked the pear...

Auctions were good sounding, shame I couldn't afford it. A mountain holiday for 8 including central heating and electric blankets always sounds good to me.
So no sugar-daddies last night, although we did have a good amount of teasing at Michelle about it. So after having full bellies and waiting around a little bit, (the girls went nuts with the digital camera), we all set off home, so I got home round 2340. Not too badder night, $70 well spent.

Recent purchases:
- long sleeved, lacey dark brown bolero - was gonna wear last night, then decided I'll be cold enough as it is
- small George Foreman grill - knocks out fat! - I wanna try it out, let's see what do we have in the fridge... hmmm... baby octopus?? I was thinking of marinating it first... hmmm... garlic, olive oil, basil, chilli, dill? Nah no dill, oregano, hmmm... no marjoram...