Nana Muddle's Big Greek Birthday

Yesterday was my Mum's birthday and I organised a little get together at our house for her. Decided on a Greek menu as it was something a bit different so ploughed Good Food's website for ideas! Ended up with:

Pitta bread with tzatziki and hoummus (both recipes from this book)
Red pepper wrapped halloumi
Greek Salad

Followed by:
Beef Stifado
Moussaka
Prawns with spring onions and garlic (adapted from this recipe)
Lamb traybake
Gigantes Plaki

Then it was on to the decor! Having had a trawl around Pinterest I decided on doilies as place names and lace wrapped jam jars as tealight holders, as I wanted to keep it 'grown up' and leave plenty of table space for the food!

The cake was an easy one. Mum had missed out on a piece of the rainbow cake for Baby Muddle's naming day so that was that, and another Pinterest trawl (addict, moi??) inspired the decoration.

Good time was had by all, and most importantly by Nana Muddle :-)

Yummy Summer Drinks

Just been making up some drinks for the naming day party. Made some of this Raspberry Cordial and some syrup for Ginger Lemon Fizz. I was going to make homemade lemonade, but this looked soooo yummy I had to try it.

The raspberry cordial's all ready now and tested. I found it actually made nearer 900ml and dilutes nicely at 4:1 (for my tastes anyway!) and the syrup is just cooling, so I'm hoping that dilutes down OK. Guess I can always make a last minute dash to the Co-op!

These recipes are so great because they're made in advance, I love getting things well out of the way!