Yummy New Year :)

Was deciding between a couple of things to do as we usher in the new year, one of it was to go night cycling with Churchies. Which I was rather interested in because it'll be such a wonderful and interesting and not to mention healthy and adrenaline pumping (literally) way to kick-start the new year!
BUT. We suddenly realise that we can't go coz we have a bday party of a relative to attend the nxt day zzZZ...
So.. Instead of a healthy and sweaty start, we brought in the new year with FOOD.
yeah, wad's new right?
Well, the diff is we actually stayed at Poppy's home during NYE (when everyone's out crazy partying) and whipped up a feast for ourselves to celebrate 2010!
**Thinking abt all the food makes me hungry again!**

The items on our menu dat night were:
1) Roast Chicken with Lemon and Thyme
2) Lemon Spaghetti
3) Roasted Vegetables

We went grogery shopping at Giant (there was a crazy crowd dere... like everyone's gonna be cooking sth for NYE) and started cooking ard 6.30pm...

He was the chef and I was the assistant :)
Explains why I have the luxury to be taking photos while he slogged away :P


Very brief view of our ingredients:


The roast chicken was alot of work and one of the steps involve putting ur hands b/w the skin and the flesh of the chicken to put the butter paste inside... ew.




Initial plan was to put the vege to roast as the chicken twirl above the tray and the essence of the chicken will be dripping dwn on the vege.


But plan fail coz either the chicken was too big (which we doubt coz it was only abt 1 kg) or the oven is too small :(
So we had to wait for the chicken to be cooked b4 we put in the vege to roast...

It was alrdy 8+ and we were dying of hunger :(
But when we sniffed the sweet aroma of the chicken 40 mins ltr and saw the wonderful brown skin.....
All was worth it :D


As we sent our vege to roast, we started on our Lemon Spaghetti


And here we have it, a feast dat's supposed to feed like 4 ppl?

The sad thing is... we could not really taste the lemon zest in the chicken (which was a hell of tough work coz Poppy din have a shredder at home so I used a small knife to scrape the lemon skin), but the chicken was fabulous all the same :)
And the spag was YUMMY!! Super appetising.. a little sour, a little salty, a little refreshing..
*salivates again*

So we only had our dinner at 9pm and we could not finish the food but we were extremely satisfied and enjoyed the time we spent we each other :) :) :)

Hope u guys had a great NYE too!