Dinner with friends

Hi there!

Went out to dinner last night with a great friend and had a great time. Food is something that generates such fantastic conversations between people. Good food and wine coupled with a great atmosphere does something to a person, it makes you feel comfortable and cosy and always puts you in the mood for talking! I think the sign of a good night between friends is when neither of us want to stop the conversation to leave! As one of my other great friends says, us chatty women need to keep talking until we get all of our words out for the day! Conversations over food should never be forced or feel uneasy. Words and laughter should flow without judgement or a script.  I look forward to catch up’s with friends so much as a bit of a week-night treat. It’s great to catch up on the gossip, the world’s problems and compare our worries and concerns about our friends and life in general.  The overall theme is that women worry about everyone and everything! Friends, family, strangers, unborn children. families as a whole, brothers, sisters, parents, the past, the present and the future. Unfortunately there are no words or person that will curb this trend of love through worrying, other than in true women fashion, taking over food, wine and with fellow worriers (warriors?)!

Middels Tapas Bar and Restaurant in Drouin provided the great food, the wine, the great atmosphere and great staff to help us along last night which was great. I know that real wine lovers don’t see Moscato as a “real wine”, but hey, it is absolutely delicious, what can I say!?  It was a fantastic start to the dinner treat so that’s enough for me J We indulged in the tapas menu and chose the Trio of Dips which is always a compulsory addition to our dinner, a squid dish, a mushroom dish and a very impressive scallop dish (which I will be definitely getting next time). The highlight of the night always comes from the desert if the gods are feeling in the mood, and oh did it come to us in fantastic form! My love started when I realised that they had Sticky Date pudding in cake form, then coupled with a delicious butterscotch sauce, it was truly a forbidden delight. But I must say that the savoury delight of the night was the tuna dip that came in the Trio of Dips, we could not stop raving about it and devoured it much too quickly! This was a thrillingly deceiving dip which I would have been sceptical about trying if I knew it was tuna before I tasted it! It was so brilliant and I am in the process of investigating as we speak. I will be sure to post the recipe when I find the perfect one! J Well, all that topped off with a cleansing Peppermint tea, of which I think is the best I’ve had (T2 of course), ended a great night.

I hope you all take some inspiration to catch up with friends more often if you don’t already. Find the people in your life that care what you have to say and you enjoy talking to, and treat yourself to an evening out with them. You may only be able to think of one person, or you may have many that you would like to catch up with, but don’t get depressed or worried about the numbers, just enjoy yourself J

Xo

NJC

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