Stinky

Will and I went to our very wonderful friends' house in Chey-Town last night.  We all made a very tasty Asian themed dinner, then played a few very fun games.

Nat and Becca are awesome...awesome people and awesome chefs.  Nat is wonderful because he makes us help him make dinner, so we learn new recipes!

The menu included a crazy Asian cabbage/carrot/sesame oil/sugar/soy sauce salad, miso soup, french bread (not because it's Asian, but because it's tradition), pork ginger dumplings with dipping sauce, and cardemom carrots for dessert (yes, carrots for dessert..and they were mm mm good).

I am a less than great chef.  Nat gave me the easy job of heating up oil in a pan to saute some ginger, garlic, shallot, and scallions.  I got distracted after starting my job, and soon we were opening windows because I burned it.  Oil.  I burned oil.  Awesome.

BUT in my defense, I got distracted with mincing the ingredients, which was William's job.  William quit his job because he's a quitter.  And he didn't want his fingers to smell like garlic.

This is Will camped out on the couch after quitting his job, causing me to be distracted from mine, which ended up in burning oil.  His fault. 

After dicing a bazillion garlic cloves, scallions, and ginger roots I had to mix it all into the pork...

Oooooo yummy.   Nice mixing job, eh?  Downside of this - I have been scrubbing under my fingernails for the past 24 hours and no matter what I use or how hard I try, I can not get rid of the smell.  I can't even pick my nose cause my fingers smell so horribly like garlic and onion.  Yuck.  Now I have stinky fingers and crowded nostrils.

You're so weird.

Nat and Becca are the geniuses of bread making.

I've tried making Nat's recipe of bread twice, and it always turns out like crap.  I even bought the special french bread pan just like his; it didn't work.  No one can make french bread like those two.

We ate our tasty salad and soup and bread, then took a break to make the dumplings.  This was a good plan.  This plan allowed for maximum stuffage of food into face.

After everyone cleaned up...well...almost everyone...

...we played games.

Becca found an awesome card game at a toy/game store.  It's meant for children.  Small children.  It involves matching simple pictures on your card to the pictures on the card in the middle pile.

Coolest. Game. Ever.

This game was cool for the following reasons:

1. It takes maybe 2 minutes to play a full game.
2. William sucks at it.
3. Nat sucks at it.
4. Becca and Manda kick butt at it.

Then we played CatchPhrase - another awesome game for the following reasons:

1. William sucks at it.
2. Nat sucks at it.
3. Becca and Manda kick butt at it.

The boys could NOT win.  Even when they cheated and changed the category to "sports".  Their little egos were crushed into the ground.  And stomped on.  And spit on.

Take that.

It was a great night.  Tonight is a less great night because I have stinky fingernails and boogers.

Yuck.