Not so much dinner party but frequently I or one of my other single neighbours will cook something and invite some others around for a beer/wine with it. Last time I cooked it was a risotto for 4. It's a bit ad hoc and spur of the moment organized through whatsapp.
Thankfully my friends and I are still so rubbish that dinner parties haven't started. It is still just boozing round each others houses with a bag of doritos for food.
Actually, the one time we do go to a dinner party is on New Year's Eve and that's definitely black tie. The "Call Me Dave" metropolitan types hate dinner jackets, don't they?
Regularly, although more and more they are long lunches on the weekend. I love to cook so it’s a great chance for me to indulge that hobby. Also see friends and kick back in private. I love planning my menus and drinks, which very much depend on season and vibe. Sometimes I go fancy if it is a special occasion, but I always splash out and have 4 courses at least.
Thinking about it a large part of my childhood weekends were spent helping my divorced parents both prep for dinner parties so no doubt I was conditioned
I can only seat 8, sometimes I do 10 with some spare chairs. Tight squeeze!
last one was this weekend, 6 people, menu was secret smokehouse salmon blinis and English sparking wine, then bone in rib of beef with oven baked potatoes, dressed green beans and wilted spinach (served with Rioja) followed by papaya and passion fruit pavlova (pouille fuisse) and a banging cheese board (Sauternes) and finally coffee and chocolates.
Dinner party is minimum of two courses and you take care to have enough of the relevant wine. Versus one course and open whatever wine is lurking. You can ponce up and down, to suit your ponciness.
Diceman - she hasn't gone so far as to say she now thinks Brexit is a shit idea, but she did recently admit that it is pretty much panning out as I predicted and she didn't expect it to be this much of a clusterfook.
(Don't want to derail the thread with Brexit chat.)
"Afternoon tea" is admittedly a bit sui generis but I guess the drinking of tea is pretty central to it and the finger sandwiches and cakes don't usually replace another meal.
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Shoulder of lamb
everyone came. Some a few times.
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Not so much dinner party but frequently I or one of my other single neighbours will cook something and invite some others around for a beer/wine with it. Last time I cooked it was a risotto for 4. It's a bit ad hoc and spur of the moment organized through whatsapp.
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Years ago
Can't remember
It's all a bit "metropolitan elite" isn't it? Sitting around talking about skiing holidays and laughing at Brexit-y people.
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Thankfully my friends and I are still so rubbish that dinner parties haven't started. It is still just boozing round each others houses with a bag of doritos for food.
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Do Brexity people not have dinners with their friends? How odd.
FWIW I can't remember when we last had one but the last one I was invited to was by a cousin of mine who definitely voted for Brexit.
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eh? the least metropolitan people I know have loads of dinner parties
it’s an upper/middle class thing true, but that’s not necessarily always a brexit divide
this is not confined to dinner parties
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I’d imagine a significant proportion of roffers still wear black tie to theirs
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Guess I'm too much of a man of the people then
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Saturday.
smoked lamb and various Moroccan salads with garden stuff. Basically everything that had been grown here
Neighbours and old friends in the UK for a while
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Hate them but they stop me being a recluse.
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Actually, the one time we do go to a dinner party is on New Year's Eve and that's definitely black tie. The "Call Me Dave" metropolitan types hate dinner jackets, don't they?
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Feebs we do the boozing around eachother's flats, but at least we aren't on doritos. Also helps that we all live in the same block of flats.
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About 7 years ago.
Salmon en croute with mashed potato, creamed spinach and asparagus. Strawberry Mille feuille for dessert.
Eight attendees including my wife and I.
I used to love cooking so much, shame I only cook for myself these days.
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What happened to that teenager you were going around with?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w
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Was that to me? I’ve not dated a teenager since I was 30. Hth.
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salmon en croute - this was just 7 years ago?
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Yeah it’s my usual fallback.
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1. Three weekends ago.
2. Roast pork.
3. Two people (another couple, old friends of mine who I hadn't seen in ages and hadn't met MJJ).
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At the weekend
A poor person
Boris, Dominic, Nigel and Isabel Oakenshott
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Never had one. Seems like a thing couples do.
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No, it's a thing people with friends do.
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pen, have you made your cousin repent?
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How is a dinner party distinguished from cooking dinner for some people?
i don't think I've ever hosted one if a dinner party requires starters and menus and different wines for each course
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“It's all a bit "metropolitan elite" isn't it? Sitting around talking about skiing holidays and laughing at Brexit-y people”
This is a perfect encapsulation of why I like them!
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Not really a working class thing, Hools
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No we have actual fun
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Regularly, although more and more they are long lunches on the weekend. I love to cook so it’s a great chance for me to indulge that hobby. Also see friends and kick back in private. I love planning my menus and drinks, which very much depend on season and vibe. Sometimes I go fancy if it is a special occasion, but I always splash out and have 4 courses at least.
Thinking about it a large part of my childhood weekends were spent helping my divorced parents both prep for dinner parties so no doubt I was conditioned
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I can only seat 8, sometimes I do 10 with some spare chairs. Tight squeeze!
last one was this weekend, 6 people, menu was secret smokehouse salmon blinis and English sparking wine, then bone in rib of beef with oven baked potatoes, dressed green beans and wilted spinach (served with Rioja) followed by papaya and passion fruit pavlova (pouille fuisse) and a banging cheese board (Sauternes) and finally coffee and chocolates.
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Hmm. I want to be Miss T’s friend, drool!
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This is just class obsessed spk for going round to your mate's for tea (as hoolz alludes).
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Dinner party is minimum of two courses and you take care to have enough of the relevant wine. Versus one course and open whatever wine is lurking. You can ponce up and down, to suit your ponciness.
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For tea< isn't that a drink?
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dinner parties are w**k
kitchen supper with m8s for the win
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Diceman - she hasn't gone so far as to say she now thinks Brexit is a shit idea, but she did recently admit that it is pretty much panning out as I predicted and she didn't expect it to be this much of a clusterfook.
(Don't want to derail the thread with Brexit chat.)
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And yes, tea is either a drink or a meal served from 5-6pm for children who aren't yet old enough to wipe their bums unaided.
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Where do you stand on northerners and their bum-wiping skills?
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"Afternoon tea" is admittedly a bit sui generis but I guess the drinking of tea is pretty central to it and the finger sandwiches and cakes don't usually replace another meal.
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Went to one at the weekend where another guest cooked. He has a handful of Michelin stars. I’m never competing with that.
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