This edition of Mmmf is brought to you courtesy of BelleFace‘s Annah. Annah is a make up artist and is currently in the process of developing a line of organic skincare products, which I’m pretty excited about. She’s also a culinary explorer, and occasionally hosts impressive vegetarian dinner parties.
Your hostess:
Last week was Italian night, and MAN was it good. Annah spent something like 9 hours preparing this feast, so I took a bunch of photos and asked her to tell all-a-yous what we were having. Enjoy!
Appetizers: Peppered Gruyere and Gouda with red wine
Eggplant Parmesan
Thinly sliced eggplant soaked in salt for an hour then lightly fried in olive oil, dipped in egg, basil and bread crumbs, arranged atop garlic marinara sauce and topped with a concoction of mozzarella/parmesan/ricotta/more marinara and slow baked to perfection.
Baby Greens Salad
With chopped onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and avocado – topped with a sweet Italian vinegar dressing.
Stoplight Stuffed Peppers
Morning Star Farms Meal Starters fake meat crumble, jasmine rice, caramelized celery and onions, grated fresh carrots and chopped tomatoes sprinkled with chili powder, salt n’ peppa – all stuffed into ripe bell peppers. Topped with 1/2 tomato sauce and 1/2 diced tomatoes with dried basil, then lightly baked.
Not food: Australian white tree frog in the hands of Josh.
Also on the menu:
Sauteed Spinach with fresh garlic, salt, pepper and fresh squeezed lemon.
Sauteed Veggies: yellow squash, zucchini, and garlic in olive oil, powdered with salt & pepper, then cooked ’til buttery meltdown.
Mrmmmmmfff.
That is an impressive array of food I’m salivating at the thought of it all xoxo
I can testify to the deliciousness of it all! Girl started cooking at around 10:30am, and it shows.
Bless you. <3
My mouth is watering just looking at this. I can imagine the smell was divine.
Annah, no, no – bless YOU. With the power of MOAR COOKING. Git back in the kitchen, woman.
Comorbid, it really was.
this drives me crazy… i’m italian, and U R IN ITALY
*_*! -OH GOD!
i really hope u’ll visit venice, i study here… and it’s… amazing, i cannot compare it… but trust me, come and visit it!sunday will, also, start the Carnival. and if u r near rome u have to visit also IL GIARDINO DEI TAROCCHI, by Niki de Saint Phalle , google it.
sorry for my bad bad bad bad english
i luv the way u’r,
hugs, Azzurra :>
Azzurra, that’s very sweet, but I’m not in Italy…yet! I’ll be in Rome on April 19 and 20, and in Florence on the 22nd. Can’t wait!
awwwww
u really don’t know how much the fact u reply to this silly and ill-formed comment, makes me blush and happy :)
waiting for ur next blush response, have a nice day and i hope to meet u one day in my life.
hugs :>
These stuffed peppers looks like Heaven!
I’ve never heard them called white tree frogs we call them green tree frogs here. Looked it up and apparently they are called White’s tree frogs too so learnt something new! They’re the cutest and all over the place at my house. Noisey little buggers. Aussie reppin’! :P Glad he wasn’t on the menu, ha!
Tasty looking feed!
yeah I get those frogs in my backyard all the time! I’ve only ever heard them called Green Tree Frogs, but they look just like that little guy, I have to fish them out of my pool at least once a month!
Aw the tree frog! I want to eat it in the way one wants to eat really really cute stuff. Is it kept as a pet or just happened to drop by?
mm! farsherovanii perzi! :) my favorite!
Yum. Such a talented and gorgeous gal. I look forward to her skincare products too!
This looks fantastic…I’m vegetarian and also LOVE vegetarian cooking…so much fun to make new things….this post just made me that much more motivated to make a full on meal. Italian is my fave to top it off…. beautiful pictures…thanks for sharing Zoe and Annah!
Wonder if Annah has a blog on recipes?
Leo, I don’t have a recipe blog…yet! But I’m more than happy to share. :)