Having Tomomi over for dinner

I wanted my friend, Tomomi to meet Ilya before Ilya departing for Ukraine, so she came over to our place for dinner last nite. Due to my busy schedule and not having had a chance to do much grocery shopping over the weekend, I prepared some food based on what we had in the fridge, but all turned out fairly well, and once again, I was happy with the dishes: We had teriyaki flavoured chicken with steamed carrots, sweet potatoes and sugar snaps. Chickpea and Potato Curry, edamame, steamed brown and wild rice and miso soup.

We had a little bit of sake from our previous Japanese dinner with a bunch of Russian friends, so we had a sip of that as well :) For desert, we had semi-dark and white chocolate chips and cashew cookies, strawberry bubble tea and mango sherbet (thanks to Tomomi).

Ilya's friend, Sasha made a surprise visit, so he joined with our dinner for a little bit :)
Here is Tomomi enjoying the chickpea and potato curry :)

It was such a great pleasure having friends over for dinner. You know, the past numerous years, I cooked meals and ate all alone by myself (most of the time), and I hated it!!! I grew up in a big family, so I have such a great pleasure sharing food and enjoying the meal together with others under family oriented farm envirnoment, you know? So it was super great that Tomomi and Sasha joined our dinner.

After Sasha left, all of us explored Ilya's great music collections, especially within Tibetian music. Ilya recently had a huge crash on the music performed by a couple asian (Japanese) musicians who played some ancient Tibetian (nepalian) instruments at the Kensington Market, and Tomomi turned out to be friends with them. LOL And while going thru many of Tomo's photos in her digital camera, we realized that the people whom she took a photo of were actually ilya's friends as well. So it was quite interesting evening realizing how small world we have, especially having it the first evening for Ilya and Tomomi to communicate with each other (encountering new inspiring people and learning they were friends of our friend).

But like Tomo said the other day, I believe that we have the power/magnet to attract the type of people who share the same wavelength (similar energy)...so maybe this is why friends connect good friends after another in this world :)