Du Cane Court Crawl

The apartment block we live in, Du Cane Court, has in the region of 670+ apartments. It just so happens that two of those apartments are occupied by friends of ours. This is great because we can go to a friends apartment without having to go outside.

Last year we decided that we should take advantage of our proximity and have a flat crawl which involved a course of food in each apartment to make a 3 course meal. The first time around Thommo and Bev had entrée (Spannish tapas), we had main course (Moroccan chicken) and Andy and Michelle had dessert (mini meringues).

It had been a while since we'd done the first DCCC (Du Cane Court Crawl) and the other couples were both considering moving out so we arranged a second DCCC.

This time Andy and Michelle had entrée, Thommo and Bev main and Jackie and I dessert.

This is how it turned out...

First stop A23 for entrée. In the past year Andy has taken to baking his own bread and he is very good at it too. There has been the odd occasion when we've benefited from a bread delivery - another benefit of living in the same building as your friends. There was quite a bit of anticipation that Andy would turn to his bread making skills for the entrée and we weren't disappointed:

We weren't allowed to touch the bread at this stage, nothing was said but we knew.  The bread sticks were also made by Andy and the best bread sticks I've ever had, not dry and crusty but like proper bread.

The finished product. Thommo counted how many times I went up for more, it got up to seven. In my defence it as really good. 

Michelle is English and had gone overboard for the Royal Wedding including Union Jack serviettes

And Union Jack cushions. 

On to apartment K15, for the main meal at Thommo and Bev's. Thommo has proven a dab hand at making delicious healthy meals to supplement his uber athlete life (today he ran an 80km race!!). However this meal might not be as healthy as it looks at first glance.

Caribbean chicken and mango skewers with coconut rice, which is essentially rice cooked in coconut milk, which isn't the most healthy way of cooking rice, I'd never had coconut rice before, wow it was yum.

Finally to K67 for dessert, which was all Jackie. We had spent a lot of time discussing what we would do and eventually Jackie decided to do ambrosia. I didn't really know what this was so offered to help by doing what I was told. That pretty much meant whipping the cream with an inadequate hand powered tool, it took ages but we got there in the end and it was worth it. We made heaps and had a trial the night before.

After the ambrosia we had home made (by Jackie) chocolate chip cookies and tea. A very civilised way to end a very civilised evening.