Well, my first-ever dinner party was a smashing success

[rockymountaindem]

Permit me some self-indulgence...

I turned 22 a couple of months ago, and just prior to that I finally move into a place I could finally have people over in (read: not a dorm). Well, I lived in a different apartment last year, but the kitchen in that place was so small a project like this would not have been possible.

Anyway, I had three people from my department over, and I think I really hit it out of the park. I've only been cooking for a little over a year, since my mom finally forced me to learn to fend for myself in the kitchen since I wouldn't have the luxury of eating at the school cafeteria anymore (the downside of graduating from school). Anyway, I looked up a recipe for fish chowder on the internet and bought all the ingredients, then cooked it up in my crock pot all day. Then tonight I made some Italian fried chicken with noodles, served some French bread I bought and a bottle of wine, as well as crackers and cheese while my guests waited for the chicken to finish. Then we had some blueberry cake I scored for crazy cheap and drank tea from the teapot I bought a couple weeks ago because I thought it would be a cool thing to have. Let me say: this chicken was tops. I've never made that stuff better.

I'm so proud of myself!

[VenusRising]

1. Congrats!

It all sounds delicious.

Feeding people really great food that you made yourself is a great feeling.

Enjoy the feeling. :hi:

[Radical Activist]

2. have you read Stuff White People Like?

It has a section about how dinner parties are a right of passage into adulthood for 20-something white people. So I chuckled at your post.

Congrats on things going well!

[rockymountaindem]

6. Ha! I only wanted one of them to come over

But then I figured I couldn't do that without inviting her roommate, who is another classmate of ours. Then the roommate wanted to know if a third classmate could come (I suspect they're dating but I'm not sure). So what started as me cooking a normal amount of food I would usually eat myself and sharing it with one person turned into a whole undertaking, particularly when I decided to make something I'd never tried before. This was a whole big accident :)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Now you know..........

........ that you can do anything.

It's a big deal, hosting your first dinner party, and doing it on your own was pretty gutsy. The menu sounds terrific, and I suspect, from reading your enthusiastic and happy post, that you were the perfect hostess.

Congratulations. You have every reason to be proud of yourself.

Now, what's your next dinner party gonna look like, hmmmmm?

:toast:

[lizziegrace]

4. Way to go!

I admire a man who can cook. :)

I'm sure your guests had a wonderful time.

[seaker]

5. Your dinner party

is a return to social civility..
Bravo!