My weekend was good – it was quite cold here though. I actually had to use the heat last night. The houses get so cold because there's no central heating with concrete walls, tiled floors, and no double glazed windows.
Went to a restaurant called Beau Rivage for someone's birthday on Friday evening. It was great, but a big splurge. My starter was the daily foie gras and was absolutely amazing. I ordered the lamb for a main, and wasn't too struck with it, mainly because it was over cooked. Still, I'd go back there again because the other mains looked good.
Saturday I met a friend in town for lunch and ran some errands in the afternoon. Then in the evening we had some friends over for a 'make-your-own-pizza' dinner. This is a great idea for a small party. You provide all the ingredients such as pre-cooked small pizza bases and sauce, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, olives, meats and any thing you can think of and have the oven pre-heated. Put multiple pizzas on cookie sheets, and they're ready in 10 minutes. We followed this with a game of Cranium. If you got the question wrong, your team had to do a shot of coffee flavoured Patron (yum) – an added touch to make it more fun. My roommates got the brunt of that.
Yesterday we went to watch my roommate's boyfriend play rugby. Unfortunately, it was cut short when he injured his shoulder in a tackle and was taken to hospital in an ambulance. He was home by the evening, as I went over there for supper when his roommate cooked dinner for a bunch of us. A group of us have been doing an 'ethnic food night' each Sunday. Each person takes a turn to make a dish from where they're from. Although the ethnic element has kind of faded, and now it's just dinner.
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