The big dinner
We do three big dinners in the year for the friends and family: the Chinese New Year round up, Christmas and New Year's Eve.
After many trials and errors with choice of food and mix of dinner friends, we more or less have our act together.
The huge spread of food got to the table with minimal hiccup, and the humans got along nicely.
There was even a little surprise birthday celebration thrown in the mix!
It was a lot of work, but we got a lot of help from the friends throughout the evening with putting away dishes, refilling drinks and making merry.
And so it came to pass; we had a grand time celebrating the first of three big festivals of the year.
The friends, the family, the food, the drinks. Everything was right.
9 comments:
the first of the year indeed. strange to think of it that way. in my mind it's the third event, since it falls so soon after the other two.
feel like singing "all my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown". haha.
glad you had everything just right. suddenly thinking of goldilocks.
i think i shouldn't post comments at this time of the night.
tuti - the cny dinner does feel like it should be the last of many festive dinners :)
The dinners are always fabulous. And it's so good now because everyone has met before. Thank you and the man for the great dinners. :)
that's the best sort of parties- when the chemistry comes together beautifully, and you get help along the way without needn't to tire yourself out too much.
wildgoose - it's always wonderful to have you in the crowd :)
imp - definitely :)
Very nice.
I love to be able to host more dinner parties - no matter how I gripe about the amount work need to prepare and the cleaning up after. Well, you could say that I'm still in the trial and error stage. :P
jomel - thanks. keep trying. you will hit your stride, and the dinner parties become a joy rather than a chore :)
was that homemade yusheng? looks yum!
~ EDPJ
edpj - yes, and it was :)how you guys doing?
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