International Food Day

Another post about food I'm afraid but yesterday turned out to be a day of eating! 

Currently I'm working at Toyota and each year the team I'm with do an International Food Day where everyone brings in their signature dish for lunch. 

We have lots of people of different nationalities where I live - Chinese, Indian, Macedonian (random, I know), Iranian, Italian, English...the list goes on...so we had a veritable feast of different dishes, all of which were delicious.

I decided to embrace the English part of me so I made scones - sultana ones, and maple syrup ones - and also brought in some jam and cream (just normal cream as you can't buy clotted cream here) to go with them. I used an interesting recipe I found on Nigella Lawson's website - 3 cups of flour, a cup of lemonade and a cup of cream, that's it! I think the lemonade is supposed to make them rise alot whilst also keeping them light in the middle. They turned out really well though, and they tasted good too so I think that recipe is a keeper! I forgot to take a photo of them when they were done but this is them in the oven, with another 10 minutes or so to go until they were done.

 Other things on offer were two different curries, beef goulash, Thai fish cakes, spring rolls, chicken nuggets (the Australian offering...!), a beautiful Iranian dish of saffron rice with pine nuts and chicken, Italian meatballs, various salads, and chips. All yummy! We also had cupcakes, banana bread and the most gorgeous pistachio and almond biscotti and cannoli. 

And the best part of our International Food Day? The fact that our lunch break was well over an hour long...! Although the rest of the afternoon was spent in a sleepy, food-induced stupor!