my dinner party = success

[supercheesegirl]

Tonight I threw my first dinner party ever--I had ten guests to cook for, and it went really well! I made applesauce in my small crockpot, and baked chicken in the oven, and did new potatoes with parsley and chives, and steamed zucchini, and a pasta dish with olive oil for the veggie people, and Kris brought a salad. For dessert I had the cookies I baked last night, and jello (cranberry-raspberry), and Dylan made whipped cream, and Sara(h) brought her butterscotch cookies, but the crowning glory was the chocolate custard cake that I made in my large crockpot! I was worried it wouldn't work, but it was totally perfect and yummy and good with vanilla ice cream. Everyone seemed to have a really good time even though there weren't quite enough chairs to go around and we were all a little crowded around the tables. I think an ideal dinner party size, for future reference, will be eight, because we have that many chairs. And I wore my vintage black velvet dress so I looked like a housewife from 1946 going to a dinner party, and while I was cooking I wore a yellow apron I found in the pantry. Apparently this mysterious apron belongs to no one, so it's now my apron. It has pink flowers on it. Everyone was shocked at my sudden display of domesticity. The kitchen was freshly scrubbed (that's what I spent my morning and early afternoon doing), the dinner was delicious and well-planned and arrived on the table exactly when expected, the cooking involved not one but two crockpots, AND I wore an apron. Amy and Kris kept looking at me incredulously. But I feel really good, because I worked very hard today and it came together very well and everyone seemed to have a nice time. Now I will be expected to host more dinner parties, but that's okay, I guess.

Comments

[lydian.livejournal.com]

Everything was excellent last night, thanks so much for the invitation!

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for coming over!

[allthefishies.livejournal.com]

dinner was very yummy, thanks for cooking!! :-)

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for eating! :)