First Supper
And what about y’all? Do you remember the first “adult” dinner/cocktail party that you gave post-college, in the new apartment, with the newly serious boy/girl friend? Disastrous? Memorable? Were you doing keg-stands at the end of the evening, sipping someone else’s bottle of “Taylor’s 40-year” Port, sweeping up your mother’s fine-bone wedding china? Did the guests clean their plates or pick at your pork roast?
My “first” (Lord, it sounds as if we’re discussing virginity) was characteristically over-the-top and arduous. I served Rainbow Trout stuffed with Portabello mushrooms and prosciutto…
April 5th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
hi belle
i’ve never given a dinner party yet, but your menu sounds lovely. i just wanted to say i love your blog.
April 5th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Oh, so it’s not just a rumor…we do have to do that fancy dinner thing after college? Well pray for me then, cuz the only thing I know how to make is appetizers! Of course…I do make a good takeout dinner…
April 5th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
it absolutely does NOT have to be fancy. the more i entertain, the more i realize that the party is about setting the mood, serving good drinks and simple, delicious food. it also helps if you have a lot of beautiful, brainy girls in attendance… then the men are more than happy to make a run to the liquor store for one more bottle of champagne…
April 5th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Congrats Belle! Sounds like it was amazing. Hosting dinner parties is just so much fun. My hubby is the gourmet so he does most of the cooking and I…well, I try!
April 5th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
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April 6th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
I could not be more excited for this! Now to decide what to bring…
April 6th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Hmmm…. my first? The menu was set by a dear friend who was pregnant, couldn’t cook, and wanted me to fix: meatloaf, artichokes with garlic butter, mashed potatoes, and probably something else. I hadn’t made meatloaf in years so the timing was off. We started with salad, moved to artichokes, and finished the meal with a desert of meatloaf and potatoes! We had a blast, and all reeked of garlic. The pregger’s chef’s assistant kept adding more garlic when I wasn’t looking…..her first case of morning sickness was the next day, and she hasn’t touched an artichoke or garlic since!
April 7th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Good luck with that party, and looking at the menu, it sounds absolutely tasty.
C’mon! You should have told him to do the frying out on that terrace. Though it sounds like you and he were able to compromise, so all that ends well…
As for the first dinner party… I invited this young lady to my apartment, and I had prepared a candle light dinner for her. The menu consisted of asian spiced chiken breasts, white rice, and lightly boiled broccoli. A bottle of bubbly rounded off the meal. I kept it nice and simple.
Of course, that was also the same night my roommate decided to crash the dinner with all of his friends.
Regardless of how the night goes, I look forward to seeing the the post about how the night resolves itself.