Sofia: 100 days party!!!

I can’t remember having any party to celebrate my birthday until I was 10 years old. I was a happy child but I wish I had more parties. Sofia is my princess and I want her to have memories of childhood to be as happy as it could be.

We had a FABULOUS party to celebrate Sofia’s 100 days last Saturday! It was the best party I’ve hosted so far. I thought about every detail of it and started preparing days in advance! It turned out to be a great party. Sofia enjoyed it, my friends and family enjoyed it, and I loved hosting it!!!!! This is one of the many parties I’ll host for Sofia!!! 🙂

We decorate the house with ballons and banners

I went to party city to get the banner and blow 70 balloons together with Mom using a helium tank! 😯 Hard work!!!

the display of the goodies section (in preparation stage)

On the menu:

• cheese plate
• brownie bites
• vanilla and butternut milk chocolate cupcakes
• strawberries covered in white chocolate
• lemon pound cake
• glutinous rice ball filled with aduki bean paste
• panettone
• oreo truffles
• blini with smoked salmon
• roasted blackberry brie bruchetta
• envied boats with goat cheese
• tea sandwiches (cucumber with cream cheese, prociutto with cheese)
• chinese radish cake
• cookies
• coconut layer cake

I made everything except the cheese plate. 🙂

20+ friends came to celebrate with us

I’m such a happy mama!!!!

wearing the new Cartier necklace

Sofia got so many great gifts!

pregnant ladies were soaking up all the joy of new motherhood

And my princess!!!

she was cheerful during the party with two naps in between! 😉

her new friends

And cake time

I enjoyed every moment of it, including 2 sleepless nights and waking up at 4am that day to do last minute preparations! 😀

Having a child has given me so much joy that was beyond imagination. I can’t say enough how wonderful it is. Sometimes I look myself in the mirror and I can’t believe I’m a mom, but at the same time it feels so natural to be Sofia’s mom. She’s new to my life but it feels like she’s always been there. I would do anything for her safety, health and happiness because she’s such an immense source of my happiness!!!

Food: 5-course dinner at Coco’s Kitchen

THE FOOD

Appetizers table

Olive Loaf

figazita de manteca (Argentinean)

Roasted Beet Salad with Feta Cheese

Blinis with Smoked Salmon and Sour Cream

Beef Short Ribs Braised in Red Wine

Spinach Cannelloni

Molten Chocolate Lava Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream

THE PEOPLE

BEHIND THE SCENE

recipe notes

preparing the pancakes for cannelloni

making the cannelloni

pour the white sauce to cover

ready to bake

Multi-tasking

veggies and sauce for the short ribs

Short Ribs sealed

pour the beef stock

add the sauce

Bake for 3 hrs and you get folk-cutting-tender-meat.

Have a great Sunday everyone. I’ll post the recipes soon 😉

 

Weekend happening

A quick post before we continue the weekend-happening 😉

Yesterday was a busy day. We visited our acupuncturist in the morning; I baked and cooked in the afternoon; we went  to a friends’ for dinner and we ended up singing karaoke until midnight~~~

It was one friend’s birthday and she organized a potluck

She told me once that she likes German bread, so German Dark Rye Bread I made

German Dark Rye Bread (for bread machine)

• 1.5 cups warm water
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 tsps salt
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 Tablespoon caraway seeds
• 1.5 cups rye flour
• 1 cups all purpose flour
• 1.5 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/3 cup vital gluten
• 1 tbsp yeast

I also made a broccoli cheesecake

I followed this recipe, simply replaced zucchini by broccoli.

They liked both of them 😆

We also had cheese

lamb

sausage

my bread 😉

other dishes that I forgot to take pics: greek salad, couscous salad and ravioli

and an armenian girl made baklava

after dinner… we went to Muzette, a karaoke place. It was fun! 🙂

This morning we went to do some shopping (all for Star) and we just finished lunch at a Thai restaurant. Now we’re taking some rest before going to see Stomp! (I might squeeze multi-grain bread in between ;)). We saw this group years ago in Buenos Aires and we were both very impressed by their creativity. I am sure they won’t disappoint us tonight 😉

Q: What are you doing this weekend?