Hosting dinner

[elusivek]

My family, or in my home, it's very rare that we host dinners. Yes, we host the yearly Christmas thing for the family, but friends and family coming over? Not really.

Well, for some weird reason, we are hosting dinner tonight for 2 of my friends. We went to a Portuguese restaurant a few weeks ago and ordered Portugese Baked Duck Rice, and it was awful. So my friends, jokingly, asked if my Dad would cook his Duck rice for them.

Spoke to my Dad and voila, we are hosting dinner.

I thought it would be a casual affair, no frills. But heck, my Mom is going on overdrive. No wonder we rarely host dinners.

Cleaning. The apartment has to be spotlessly clean. And then the plates and chinaware, we need a full set of 6. OMG, the nice one we only have 4! Look in the cupboards to find a complete set of 6!

Dad is going to pair the Portuguese Duck Rice with an Austrian Pancake Beef-stock Soup (Frittatensuppe). And oh no, none of the bowls we have, have 6 pieces.

Then dessert. Mom is worrying about dessert. I said I can just ask one of the girls to bring one of her cakes (the one with a cake shop just down the street by us) and Mom flipped, saying I invited them for dinner, why am I asking them to bring dessert. *rolls eyes* fine. I really was hoping for this to be a casual thing.

Dessert will be... McDonald's soft ice cream with Styrian (Austria) Pumpkin Seed Oil and a piece of brownie crunchie (which I will go pick up later today). But then Mom is screaming again as we do not have enough ice cream bowls of the same set.

Dad, laughing, says we have enough crystal dessert bowls though, and Mom flips again saying THOSE ARE CRYSTAL!

I don't know. I kind of am regretting it LOL.

Enticing preparation photo..... yum yum!

Comments

[jeune-fleur.livejournal.com]

Hello new friend! Nice to meet you ^^.

I love how much moms usually exaggerate on these things XDDDD. I still find it kind of adorable :P

[notte0.livejournal.com]

yes indeed, so in a way I'm glad we don't do this often hahaha

[hermitsmurf.livejournal.com]

I hope the dinner went well! We don't have any matching dishes or silverware..our dinners are not high class..haha.

[notte0.livejournal.com]

Dinner was nice. I don't know if having matching dishes and silverware is that worth it, when you basically only use them once every few years LOL. But whatever makes mom happy, I suppose :-)

[hermitsmurf.livejournal.com]

I kind of like the idea of having all different plates, bowls, cups, etc. Maybe I'm anti-matching..haha.

[ganimede]

I hope it all went well, despite the lack of matching dishes! I've not heard of Frittatensuppe but it sounds interesting.

[notte0.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you, it went well, my friends were happy, the parents were happy, everything was good.

Frittatensuppe is basically a beef broth soup, then serve with sliced up pancakes (the very thin pancakes, more like crepes I think?)

[ganimede]

The crepe type pancakes are the usual kind that we have in the UK. I would never have thought of putting them in broth! I don't eat beef but I'm sure a vegetable broth would work just as well.

[mymimikyu.livejournal.com]

Are your guests not good enough for the crystal dishes? XD It does sound like fun though!

[notte0.livejournal.com]

LOL I have to say in my almost 40 years of life, I’ve never seen the full set of crystals be used. They’ve always been in a glass cabinet, so we know it’s there, but never used. The ones that get used are the whisky glasses and the shot glass.

I guess it’s not my friends are not good enough, it’s the food that isn’t crystal worthy enough (we WERE serving McDonald’s soft ice cream lol)

[mymimikyu.livejournal.com]

I think the older generation is like that , you have nice things to show off and plan to save for the "special occasion", but really, nothing is special enough to risk using something so expensive/beautiful/special. I try to make myself use the pretty glasses and plates just because, but it is hard to put a microwaved meal on your fancy dishes lol