Dinner for 4
Posted by Shanna on 8 January 2007
I just realise that preparing a dinner for 4 is a tiring job! My fren and I had decided to cook for our other 2 friends dinner today. On the menu, we had salad greens (lettuce, tomato, onions and hard-boiled eggs), smoked salmon with thousand island sauce, followed by rib eye steak with potato salad topped with cavier and my sinful butter cake for dessert!
It doesn’t sound like much but to think that I have been awake since 9am to bring my daughter for her swimming lessons, then to the supermarket to buy potatoes and salad greens, had lunch and then head to my flat to start baking! That was about 1.30pm by then.
I finished baking and boiling and peeling potatoes by 4pm, head out of the door to pick up a friend to the supermarket to buy the steaks, back to the flat by 5.30pm or so! I had less than an hour before the other 2 girls came! So I had to rush to clean up my baking mess, cut the vegetables up, boil d eyes, and finish the preparation of the potato salad, while my friend seasoned the steaks!
By dinner end, I was so full and tired, all I had wanted to do was to slouch with my friends at the sofa, watching TV. However, I had to wash up dinner plates, pots and pans, cutlery, and to top it off, dry and keep them! All of us were to full to eat the butter cake til later in the evening….! But it was so worth the wait! Sipping our dessert wine, Muscati, and having a bite of the cake, such a lovely feeling!
Since the dinner party was such a success, I have now promised them Fettecine Carbonara for dinner next time! Maybe ending with home made Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Sauce! Or would a sherbet be better? No matter what, I’ll have better timing next time! 
Another long day for me tomorrow as I have to complete my pineapple tarts!
