Hosting a diner, tonight.
Jul. 23rd, 2010 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aneasSo the Husband has been terrific this year, with all the work related drama and family stuff, and I thought it would be a good idea if we invited a few friends to dinner at home tonight. I don't know what I was thinking, really. If you think a dinner is a innocuous thing, that's because you haven't met the Husband, who is, to put it mildly, a typical Mediterranean Mamma.
I don't know if you've been around a Mediterranean Mamma before. They share some personality traits that makes them easily spot-able. The biggest one the way they're genetically engineered to prepare enormous quantities of food at the drop of a hat and smother you with them.
(Excuses are not needed, really. Are you crying because your football selection won the World-cup? Let's make some Tortilla Española y some tapas! Are you crying because the kid in the movie is suddenly an orphan? Poor you, here, have some milk and some cookies, and a little cake and lemonade. So you're crying because PMS is a bitch? There's nothing better than chocolate and churros, baby, and a blanket for you, don't mind is almost August and it's hot, hot, Hot! outside.)
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If you're lucky, you're usually subjected to just two Mediterranean Mammas: your own default mama and the mama in law. I'm not lucky. I have four. The former two and my sister, she's awesome but the biggest Mamma of them all; and my husband. V lacks the tits but he has the rest of traits down to a tee.
That's why the menu of my dinner for six is now:
Spanish Cheese and Ham, (jamón serrano not sweet ham, is similar to prosciutto)
Zuccini and Bacon Pudding.
Tuna Puffs.
Spider-crab (That's the easiest dish to prepare of all, we'll just have to boil it with salt and a pair of bail leaves right before the guys come.)
Marinated olives with sweet garlic and chives.
Green salad with prawns.
Lasagna (Meat lovers edition: three different kinds of meat, no cheese, easy on the bechamel.)
Wine (red and white, of course) and Mojitos.
I don't know what we're having for dessert, my friend L says she'll bring it. I'm betting it's Flan, because it's her specialty and the one she makes with oranges is to die for.
***Headdesk***
Yes, I just said: "Dear, I'm going to prepare a lasagna and a salad this Friday to invite our friends to dinner. What do you think?"
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I'll eventually learn to never give him the chance to let his inner mediterranean mama loose.
I hope.
I don't know if you've been around a Mediterranean Mamma before. They share some personality traits that makes them easily spot-able. The biggest one the way they're genetically engineered to prepare enormous quantities of food at the drop of a hat and smother you with them.
(Excuses are not needed, really. Are you crying because your football selection won the World-cup? Let's make some Tortilla Española y some tapas! Are you crying because the kid in the movie is suddenly an orphan? Poor you, here, have some milk and some cookies, and a little cake and lemonade. So you're crying because PMS is a bitch? There's nothing better than chocolate and churros, baby, and a blanket for you, don't mind is almost August and it's hot, hot, Hot! outside.)
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If you're lucky, you're usually subjected to just two Mediterranean Mammas: your own default mama and the mama in law. I'm not lucky. I have four. The former two and my sister, she's awesome but the biggest Mamma of them all; and my husband. V lacks the tits but he has the rest of traits down to a tee.
That's why the menu of my dinner for six is now:
Spanish Cheese and Ham, (jamón serrano not sweet ham, is similar to prosciutto)
Zuccini and Bacon Pudding.
Tuna Puffs.
Spider-crab (That's the easiest dish to prepare of all, we'll just have to boil it with salt and a pair of bail leaves right before the guys come.)
Marinated olives with sweet garlic and chives.
Green salad with prawns.
Lasagna (Meat lovers edition: three different kinds of meat, no cheese, easy on the bechamel.)
Wine (red and white, of course) and Mojitos.
I don't know what we're having for dessert, my friend L says she'll bring it. I'm betting it's Flan, because it's her specialty and the one she makes with oranges is to die for.
***Headdesk***
Yes, I just said: "Dear, I'm going to prepare a lasagna and a salad this Friday to invite our friends to dinner. What do you think?"
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I'll eventually learn to never give him the chance to let his inner mediterranean mama loose.
I hope.
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Date: 2010-07-24 11:14 am (UTC)I'll try to look for something easy and yummy for you. Pasta, maybe?
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Date: 2010-07-24 02:00 pm (UTC)