Nonna Mia's, Sandton Sun.....

Hi All

Sorry for not posting yesterday, went on a road trip with Davida to Johannesburg. The group that Davida is with, DVN Dynamic Vision Network had a launch with the Carl Zeiss Group at the Sandton Sun last night. Free Booze and Food what a pleasure, meeting up with old friends is always a recipe for a good party, Martin was in fine form, needless to say we all got to bed in the early hours of this morning. Sorry for keeping you up so late Mariette.

The highlight of the trip was having lunch with our friends Adel and Eugene Minnie. We had lunch at a busy little Italian restaurant in Senderwood called Nonna Mia's. The wine list is superb, trust me we did a couple of bottles between the 4 of us.

The old mamma in the kitchen cooked us a special starter, Prawn and Crab in fresh tomato and parsley sauce served with fresh home baked breads. There are no words to describe this dish, I am however going to attempt to make it like mamma did. She won't give me the secret recipe so I will just wing it.

I did manage to get her meatball recipe though, she serves the meatballs in a large bowl filled with homemade penne pasta and covers it with a pomodori sauce.

I will do a much more detailed breakdown of this week events tomorrow, my head hurts as I am writing this, I definitely had to much wine. Cooolll.

LA NONNA MIA MEATBALLS

1 kg ground beef

1 cup fresh parsley

1 cup Parmesan cheese

1 cup good bread crumbs

Combine all the ingredients by hand, shape into meatballs. Bake in oven at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes until they are nice and brown.

Serve with pasta and pomodori sauce. Enjoy

Have a Good One.