Dinner Party 2.0

Finally after weeks of bad weather storms and rain I felt, when the sun came out, it was time for a little party outside. I invited three of my friends and we had a pool and then small dinner party.

I thought that it looked really nice so I wanted to share it and the recipes I used with you. Take a look I hope you like it. This shows step by step what i did.

STEP 1 : CHOOSE YOUR COLOURS

I went for an over all white and blue themed design with gold/silver  and wooden Accessoires. The Plates are mixed some are from Fürstenberg by Sieger & Sieger called " Wunderkammer" and the others are from Driade kosmos

Step 2 Start decorating

 In my garden are a lot of roses that flourish in this moment so there probably not gonna miss. 

I put them in espresso mugs from the Fürstenberg design.













Under the espresso mugs I´ve put serviettes that I have found in Zara home. I´ve folded them a bit smaller then there actually are.










And also some self picked flowers in the middle of the table in a little antic silver vase.

Step 3 Refreshments




Since we went swimming first and it was quite hot I made two fruity drinks as a refreshment when they came.








The first one is just a simple Watermelon juice , which in the beginning has a kinda slushy consistence. The second one is a peach lemonade who got a lot of fans that day.

The Recipe for the Watermelon juice is pretty simple since there is actually none. It depends on your wish how you you want your taste and consistence to be like. I normally go for 2/3 Watermelon and 1/3 crushed ice in an normal mixer.

The recipe for the peach lemonade is bit longer

940 ml water, 1 cup lemonade (4-6 Lemons), 170 g sugar, 450 g peaches + 1 peach for decorating and mint

1. at medium heat water/ peaches/ sugar in a pot. when it starts to bubble take down the heat and let it sit for 3 min

2.put it in a mixer and mix until its soft. when I tried it it was way to much so I did in two parts.

3.then you put in a big bowl and let it sit in the fridge for 3 hours

4.put the mixture through a sieve and then fill in your self made lemonade into the mixture.

5.if you put in a glass then it is half ice cubs half lemonade / then garnish it with a sliced peach and mint

I hope you try it out my friends really liked it

Step 4 The food

We had a cold meal which means a lot of salads and typical german bread, bread, bread with a cheese platter and some salami.

we had a tomato and mozzarella salad and 

a melon with Serrano ham one

the third on was a greek inspired salad for which you need

1 Avocado, 1 1/2 cups of cherry tomatoes, 1 cucumber, 2 tbsp of red onion , 8 twist of pepper, 2tbsp of olive oil, 1 tbsp of red wine vinegar and 4 oz of feta cheese.

The fourth salad

( Avocado Strawberry Spinach Salad with poppyseed dressing)

6 cups of fresh baby spinach (900 g) which is a lot i used less

1 pint of strawberries hulled and sliced

1 Avocado diced ( you can use two i did and it was good)

4 ounces crumbled gorgonzola or blue cheese (100g)

1/4 cup sliced almonds toasted

half a small red onion thinly sliced

and for the poppyseed dressing :

1/2 cup avocado oil or any other oil i used olive oil 

3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar

2 tbsp of honey

1 tbsp of poppy seeds

salt and pepper

and optional a pinch of ground dry mustard

Step 5 The Dessert

 While it was slowly getting dark we freshly prepared our dessert.

Even when we were completely full something 
is always possible and that is pancakes.

We made two kinds normal American pancakes and chocolate ones. both were delicious.

Chocolate pancakes recipe

mix 40 g sugar + 2 egg yolk, then add 35 cl milk, after that add 2 egg whites (fluffy).
then add 45 g of melted butter and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
In a second bowl mix 200g of flour, 30 g Cocoaopowder and 9 g of baking powder. fill the wet mixture into the dry mixture.
if you want add chocochips

                  American Pancakes

mix 220 g flour + 30 g sugar + 9 g of baking powder

mix 2 eggs + 240 ml milk and then add it to the dry mixture

add a pinch of salt and 60 g of melted butter

Mix all together and let it sit for a short while. 

To decorate our pancakes we used strawberries, blueberries, blackberries,raspberries, nutella and icing sugar but you can add what ever you like.

I hope that you have found this blogpost interesting and maybe even helpful. I will try to post more stuff like this in the future also check out my Lifestyle blog over on http://mikimsblog.blogspot.de