Katja, Frederique, Sophia, Me, Alberto, Matthias, and Gundula at The Last Supper |
Over the past seven months here in Wolfenbüttel, we have had
countless dinner parties at Sophia and Matthias’ flat here in town. They have a full kitchen and more space than
those of us in the guest houses, so it is a great space for everyone to
gather. Sophia is an excellent cook and
hostess, and I pride myself in being the best sous chef I can be! I’ll do anything for someone else to cook for
me…
On Monday May 30, it was our office-mate Julia’s turn to be
in charge of the dinner party. She has
made sushi before and we all decided that would be a great group activity, and
would have the added benefit of being delicious! So Julia made the sticky sushi rice in
advance, and then we compiled the rolls and such once we got to Sophia’s. Julia also made a delicious soup and a wilted
spinach salad to round out the whole affair!
Each of us trying to use chopsticks was some major
entertainment, and the meal was DELICIOUS!!
As always, we enjoyed each other’s company, talked, laughed, and ate
until we were miserable, before topping it all off with ice cream before the
night ended!
Frederique, Sophia, Julia, Maria, Gundula, Katja, and Alberto ready to feast! |
It is, unfortunately, the end of an era now. Sophia had to move out of Matthias’ flat, and
so she hosted one final Last Supper (now the first image in this post makes more sense...).
Sophia prepared salmon, which I am told was very tasty, and
Matthias and Alberto made a super pasta with lemon-butter sauce. The grand finale was a cake that Sophia
invented! Spekulatius is a type of
German cookie. Apparently it is usually
associated with Christmas (involves cinnamon, cloves, etc.), but I’ll be the
first to tell you it is also delicious in June!
She mixed some spekulatius spices with a vanilla bean cake, and we
spread spekulaas cream in between the cake’s layers, before crumbling some
spekulatius cookies on top of the vanilla bean icing! That sucker weighed about 1,000 pounds but
was AMAZINGGGG!
The hosts with the most! Prost to Sophia and Matthias! |
The Last Supper was a totally fitting way to celebrate all of the amazing evenings, meals, and memories we have shared at Matthias’ flat. Sophia will leave us soon, but I hope someone else can fill the shoes of the hostess with the mostess (and cook dinner for me)!!!
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