Balltacular Round-up!

Gang, we've made it through 28 'Taculars. Woot! For our latest spectacular gathering we celebrated spherical, roly poly foods. The McMompsons were our lovely hosts this time around. So, what'd we roll?

• Kate and Ian skewered up tomato and bocconcini balls with basil oil, and bacon pops made with goat cheese, pecans, herbs, and apple slices....food on sticks, yes!
• Marco and Laura brought yummy arancini balls served with a marinara sauce
• Jenn and Daniel fried up delicious falafel balls -- worth the effort and the date with hot oil!
• Sara and Dan stewed up Dad's sweet and sour meatballs (whose Dad, though, I'm not sure...)
• The McMompsons rolled coconut chicken balls with nuts, and roasted us up a pot of baby potatoes
• I baked up savoury gougeres with Gruyere cheese
• What about dessert? Well, Ayako baked up her infamous cream puffs -- two kinds! Coconut and lemon
• The McMompsons rolled us two kinds of cake pops (lovely presentation, CMac!)
• And, JereMei won for most labour-intensive dishes -- fruit salad with what I call 'science balls'...coconut rum, and yogurt (Ferran Adria would be proud)....and, because that wasn't enough....they also made homemade Easter crème eggs!

For the first time I can remember, there were no leftovers. Which meant that either everything was very tasty (as always), and/or we've collectively figured out how to bring just enough food to feed fifteen people, and/or we were super hungry.

Plus, we had a full turn-out. Double woot!

The next 'Tacular will be Troptacular, hosted by Marco and Laura on Saturday, May 30th. Bring us your favourite tropical foods and dishes!