Grad Ball and its food

Hello my beauties, or as my new Russian friends say, Здравствуйте мои красотки!! 

I told you I'd just finished university in my very first blog and I had my graduation ball last weekend. It was held at Silverstone Race track, home of the British Grand Prix, and as a die hard F1 fan it was a brilliant experience. There were pictures of drivers and cars from times gone by all over the place which was really lovely and I loved getting my hair done and getting all dressed up for the occasion.
My course (Creative Writing) was the only course to get 100% positive feedback in the National Student Survey and as a reward we were given three bottles of G.H. Mumm Champagne for free but since there's a few non-drinkers on our course, there was only four of us drinking it which led to some crazy dancing.

We arrived to a champagne reception and a professional photographer so we had some photos taken together.
We were then led down to the banqueting hall which looked out over the race track.

The theme of the evening was 'around the world' and so each table was a country - we were Morocco. The centerpieces were giant martini glasses with a intricate colourful umberella on top, which we all posed with for photos.

The meal was really nice. We started off with a smoked ham hock and chicken terrine with wild mushrooms with a golden raisin puree, beetroot relish and caper and truffle drizzle, followed by chicken breast served with rosemary gnocchi, sweetcorn puree, onion and cabbage cassulet and a red wine sauce. For desert we had a cherry and chocolate bomb - a hard chocolate casing filled with cherry ice cream, cherry compote and whole cherries, served with vanilla ice cream.

After dinner we were led through to the evening room which was laid out with different areas representing different countries. Where was a Indian market area with lots of baskets filled with vegetables and things, a Chinese garden area with red paper lanterns hanging in trees and then a Middle-Eastern area with long, low couches and ornamental shisha pipes.

We had some pretty good musical acts - Tinchy Stryder, Miss Dynamite, Jaguar Skillz and some DJ's from MTV. We danced for hours, between champagne top-ups.

I'd like to thank Northampton University's Student Union for putting the whole night together as it was a huge success and I doubt they'll get much thanks for it. 

I'll post a new blog sometime this week, possibly more baking and some family-friendly dinners. See you then!!