Company for Supper

So last Thursday night Katy and I invited a classmate and friend of ours over for supper.  The deal was that we would buy the ingredients and he would cook the meal for us.  I knew Miles from my first semester back at UAA and I knew he was quite the chef , so we figured it would be a good deal for everybody.  Especially since Miles had been running low on money due to... shall we say, problems with his ATM card.  Aparently lately he'd been hoping around from apartment to apartment cooking dinners for friends in attempts of feeding himself as well.  So we thought it would be a nice gesture too on our part to be able to help feed the kid.  

Miles showed up around 6PM after he got out of his last class with a pocketfull of pasta dough that he had brought back from his most recent class.  Now we knew that pasta was going to be on the menu somehow.  After some more discussing, we decided to do something with the chicken that Katy and I still had in our fridge, so we made up a list of everything else we needed and made a quick trip to the little grocery store down the street.  Once we got back we got to work in the kitchen.  Miles got to work on the vegetables and chicken and I sat down to start stuffing the ravioli with some pesto mixed with breadcrumbs.  We had to roll out the pasta dough with a red aluminum thermos we found in our cupboard on an old wooden TV tray... in case you were wondering.  Here's some photos of our work in progress.  

Katy seemed to be the designated dishwasher and did a great job keeping up with all the dishes that Miles made, which was great because we only have so many dishes and so much space in our little kitchen here.  

Our roommate Kimberly conveniently showed up right before the food was ready and since we had more than enough for ourselves we invited her to join us.  She put some crostini's in the oven and minutes later we were all sat down to our meal.  Thankfully, our little table surprised us by swiveling out and opening up to double the size it normally is, which allowed us, and all our food to fit, quite... shall I say, cozily?  

Here's some more pictures of part of the spread we had for supper, minus the tomato sauce for the chicken and the pasta dish that I had been working on earlier  ( it's kind of hard to photograph pasta and sauce and make it look nice ) Here's also a photo of most of us around our little table.

All in all I think Katy and I both agreed that it was a nice evening and a good way to end a week of classes, so we'll probably try and do it again soon.