What can I say, we have met the mother of all cosmosoirées! It will, (I hope;) go down in history as the biggest EVER (at least in my house!) There must be something about *Vendredi*… 77 fervent Friday night revellers crammed into the cosy cosmo-loft with three things on their mind - eat, drink and be merry!
I was still busy greeting the continual influx of guests at the door when the buffet table came under the first wave of attack. Thankfully the lovely Brigitte was on hand to help control the masses and manage the placement of the hot dishes – ham and vegetable frittatas, tuna pasta bake, jacket potatoes and my new specialty meatballs! All of this plus the usual array of salads was disappearing at an alarming rate as we still awaited the last trickle of arrivals.
Finally it was time for me to close the door and resume kitchen duty, with a slightly more relaxed second chance to greet each of my guests whilst dishing out the chicken curry. Later it proved a veritable obstacle course trying to get the dessert dishes through the crowd and onto the terrace table, but eventually the peachy panna cotta, chocolate gateau and popular new citrus pie were in place… and all gone in about 5 minutes!
To get back to the vital statistics there were 41 women and 36 men, with an almost even split between newbies and cosmo-pros. I tallied up a relatively modest range of nationalities, just 13 compared to the 20 or so we are used to, with healthy contingents from our host country and neighbouring France vying for the majority.
I do feel this time it was just a tad overcrowded and I only hope that there was enough food and drink to satisfy all, in future I will try (even harder) to stick to the 65 limit to make things more comfortable and manageable. But whilst the huge turnout added to mess factor it evidently also added to the fun factor:) Cheers to everyone for their good spirits!
Last saturday's summer soirée was yet another very successful and fun event with a fabulous international crowd of 70. Statistically speaking there was large majority of 45 women, but this was hardly noticeable as the 25 men made up for the lack of numbers by their dazzling individual presence, good looks and charm!;) As usual we had a solid core of cosmo-regulars and also welcomed 28 newcomers. 
I tried to vary the menu a little with some more summery salads on the buffet table including my new favorite - tuna, apple and walnut salad with cream cheese dressing. For dessert I introduced a cheese cake option and a giant fruit salad together with the already popular chocolate mousse cake and citrus slice, all home-made naturellment! Another summer surprise was the big bowl of refreshing sangría de cava at the welcome bathtub bar. 
The menu included pretty much all of my fresh home-made staples with just a couple of new additions, a guacamole on the buffet table and my special new triple-tiered chocolate mousse cake dessert, which seemed to be a big hit! With a great job from my official helper Charlotte we managed to keep a degree of chaotic-control over supplies, service and mess management, but by 1:30 we gladly gave it up with bearly a morsel of food or drop of drink left! 
A good time was definitely had by all, and at the appropiate time they hit the road en masse to continue into the Barcelona nightlife... except for an inner clique who insisted on staying on to dance down memory lane until the wee hours:) 
Last saturday we somehow managed to squeeze a record 79 people into my humble loft... it was certainly cozy, but surprisingly comfortable! The final gender ratio was thankfully a little more even than it had threatened a couple of days before, with a respectable 34 men to 45 women, all hailing from about 20 different countries of origin. A massive number of 55 were repeat cosmo-guests and we welcomed 24 new recruits.
