Simple Home Parties

We host a home party for this same group of friends from time to time. I call this group of friends from my wife's ex school mates as H.S.B.C. which I mooted the idea to provide companionship and care because they are all singles working professionals in Kuala Lumpur. H.S.B.C. means "Happy Single Bachelor Club" as they consist of Spinsters, Bachelors, Divorcees and Single Parents. This idea would add colours to their lives and they no longer feel alone and miserable having to eat dinners or watch movies alone. We would always extend our invitations to them and they welcomed it! Even our humble home's door is open to them anytime when they wanted to find a place to laze, loiter or finish their office work at my place over the weekends. 

Earlier on, we held thematic home parties with exotic food ranging from Thais, Chinese and even making their own Pan Mee from scratch at the dining table. It was all for the fun of it! Last Saturday, I hosted the Western Meals Dinner using my Mario's Spaghetti recipe taught by my Italian house mate in US. Our H.S.B.C. guests loved it and all ate 2-3 plates full of spaghetti like a mountain. I was so happy to see these contented gluttons!

 Preview of the Menu. #1 Mario's Spaghetti 

#2 Passion Fruit Salad  | #3 Fresh Pumpkin Soup

#4 Princess Hong's Loaded Potato Skins.

My wife made her appetizing salad and yummy pumpkin soup while I cooked the spaghetti & baked the potato skins. I will share the easy steps of making the Loaded Potato Skins which I copied from this Princess Hong Blogger who once famously wore her Cinderella Slippers to attend a wedding reception at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. I followed the steps and ideas from her recipes but the ingredients & weight was churned straight from my coconut head. My wife was stunned and asked how on earth I could cook without any measurements? I replied, this is my mum's Thai styles using agak-agak method and dip to taste from minute to minute till perfection. Bingo!!!

  

I bought 7 large Rossett Potatoes and washed them very

thoroughly using steel wool! All dirts, grime and whatever

manure feces were removed. I am pretty sure that most of

our cheap potatoes come from India & China where the farmers

used all types of animals' manure as fertilizers! Clean them!

Rubbed them with Extra Virgin Olive oil and baked

them at 200 degrees C for about 30 minutes. Use

a stick to poke to make sure it is cooked. Mine took

extra long and I guess I need a new oven!!

  

Let the potatoes to cool a bit before cutting them into halves.
 Let them cool longer while I went to cook the fillings.

Later, I used a curved fruit knife and spoon to dig out

all the flesh of the cooled potatoes. I saved the flesh into a container

to make Shepard's Pie later next week. After digging,

brush the potatoes again both sides with olive oil and

pop back to the oven again for 7 minutes till crispy.

The empty shells of potato skins were baked facing up

and down which took about 7 minutes each time till crisp.

Oh dear, I forgot to take photos of the fillings!

It was just tiny bits of marinated minced pork meat fried with 

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, salt, pepper, chopped garlic,

green pepper, diced tomato bits and topped with

Mozzarella Cheese. When the guests arrived, I popped this

into the oven till the mozzarella cheese melted.

Trust me it smelled so heavenly!

I put sour cream on top of the baked potato skins

and sprinkled more tomato bits & chopped spring 

onions! Bingo!

The dinner ended after midnight but last guests finally left after 2.00am!

I had made door gifts using fresh lemons with their names

and faces drawn on them. I preached to them about the important

reminders to take care of their health and to drink lemon

juice everyday. I explained that I have 5 friends right now

who are suffering from various stages of cancers

ranging from Pancreatic, Thyroid, Breast, Lymph Node,

Prostate and etc. Both fellas with Stage 4 cancers reverted 

to me that their cancer markers have showed improvement.

I am confident that the alkaline inside the lemon juice

has helped to boost their immunity while they received

medical treatments from hospitals. We should all drink
lemon juice & water often to stay healthy!! Do it.
Prevention Is better Than Cure.

A Lemon A Day, Keeps The Cancer Away!

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