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

[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