Dinner with friends

Who doesn't love a dinner party? In college a group of friends and I would take turns cooking dinner each week and it always was good food and good fun. I tried to replicate my past but this time its turned into couples dinners. We had our good friends over a few weeks ago to start off 2010 and we've been pretty good about getting together once a week.

For our first dinner we made Giada's recipe for Pork Chops Stuffed with Sundried Tomatoes and Spinach which we found on the Food Network website. While I was perusing the Food Network website, I had to check out the best recipes of 2009. Number one was from our favorite person, Alton Brown, so of course I had to make it. His Baked Macaroni and Cheese was deservingly the best recipe of 2009 and I think the four of us ate about 3/4 of the entire recipe. Maggie brought over a fantastic Boston Creme Pie inspired cake. YUM!

Making a roux

Cheesy goodness!

After dinner we pulled out the board games and they introduced us to a new game called Things. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a new game. Seriously, this is my new favorite game... Although I still love my Apples to Apples.