Last night I had the pleasure of having a few of my favourite girlfriends over for dinner. I love to cook and bake and I was super excited to have the chance to do so for a ladies night. I kicked hubby out of the house for the evening (not that he minded!) I made fresh pasta and homemade sauce, with a simple green salad, fresh baguette and Pinterest Calabrese Salad, for dessert a simple and healthy Pinterest Apple Sauce Cupcake with Brown Butter Icing. Yummy!!!
I was able to do a lot of prep work ahead of time and really when it came down to it was a simple menu but tasty! My Lil’Sister, one of my favourite girlfriends, came by an hour earlier to help me out which was a lot of fun to catch up alone. We played music and danced in the kitchen. When the rest of my friends showed up we ate until we thought we would burst and then chatted the evening away, when surrounded with your favourite people just spending time chatting is the best way to spend the evening! It was a great night!
The ingredients I mostly had in the house, which was great. The only thing I had to buy was the applesauce for the cupcakes and the fresh pasta, this was a treat, as normally we eat dry pasta. This was far more economical then going out for dinner for all of us!
I did not buy anything special dish wise for the meal. When I first bought our dinner dishes, I bought everything in white so that I would never have to worry about matching dishes or having different dishes for different occasions, I find white dishes can be used all year round. Definitely a more cost effective choice and requires less thought process when setting the table!
All of the flowers came from my yard.
Nothing I love better then lilacs in an old mason jar. So pretty.
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