So maybe it's the excessive amounts of Food Network I seem to like to watch. Or maybe it's one too many years spent wishing I would have entertained more often.
Maybe it's because I have too much free time.
Whatever the reason, I've now had more dinner parties than I've ever had in my life...which totals 1....however, there is one in the works. It should be interesting if nothing else.
I love to cook and I've decided to try making Indian food. I'm excited. The only small problem I can think of is that there are going to be 12 people including myself and my roommate...we have a table that seats 6 if everyone really likes each other. I'm going to have to hunt down a card table and some folding chairs I think.
I never realized how daunting making dinner for 12 people can seem. It doesn't sound like a big deal-and it probably won't turn out to be as difficult as I'm conjuring in my head-but wow. I'm looking at recipes for stuff trying to figure out the best way to do things.
It's less that I'm worried about having enough food and more that I'm worried about having enough food that everyone will like. It's easy to say find three or four side dishes and make them-that's great-unless people really like one and not the other three hehe. So I'm going to aim for somewhere in the middle.
I'm making a basic main course that everyone should like and then I'm making two sidedishes that are interesting and fun and one bigger side dish that is more basic. And lots of rice and stuff.
That should, in theory, work. (c:
I've got it on the brain tonight especially-the dinner party is on Saturday and I'm going to have to tackle shopping on a budget for the stuff on like Tuesday.
There's a lot of prep that goes into Indian food too that I never quite thought of. Lots of rubs and mixes and sauces and delicate handling of hot peppers. It should be a really fun night-there is going to be a wide range of people there and we're going to rent a Bollywood movie and I'm telling people to dress up if they have brightly colored stuff. (c:
I'm going to have to be organized if I'm going to pull this off-which should be interesting since a lot of the stuff can't really be done overnight without getting weird in the fridge.
I dunno-this is all sort of random-
I've got other stuff going on too, this just seems to be where I'm fixating energy at the moment.
I'm also trying to figure out if I'm going to move into my own space or if I'm going to stick around the place I'm at right now for 6 months or so and look at moving out then. It's a tight balance of finances at the moment either way so it's just a matter of looking at the pros and cons and going from there.
There are some good deals that are close by-I'm going to be doing the obligatory drive by and stop in and take a look around on Tuesday I think (unless they're open tomorrow, which would be nice) so I can see exactly what I can get for the money I have available to spend. I'm basing it off of the worst case scenario so I can make sure that I can pay my bills if things turn south.
There's this one apartment that sounds great-there are few concerns-the main one being where it's located because of the weird tax and property tax nonsense that happens when you live on one side of the state line and work on the other, and the fact that it's not in an amazing neighborhood-but still decent. I'm going to give them a call and see if they even have any openings. The place down the street from my apartment right now is probably not as cool or nice of a place as the one in MO but it does leave me hassle free as far as the taxes and all that stuff. And it's closer to my job. If I could just smash the two places together it'd be alright.
The one in MO would definitely give me some space to set up my art studio though. And it's right in the arts district--there are also some really rowdy bars nearby though which can translate to getting broken car windows and stupidity at 2am.
I know that wherever I end up going I'm going to have to find some very functional and fun, multi purpose pieces of furniture so I can continue to entertain and have people around and stuff.
Bleh.
Enough of the noise banging around my brain case. Things usually work out the less I think about them so I'm going to go on gut instinct and see what it brings me.
The pics scattered throughout the post are some of the new work I've got hanging right now at Black Dog.
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3 comments:
Sounds like a fun dinner party! I LOVE to throw "soirees", and even though I have become much less stressed about entertaining over time, I do like to have things go as well as possible and I do get a little stressed -- only if I haven't left myself enough time to be completely ready by the time people show up. I have been known to do things like set the table the night before (which is actually a great idea because it's one more thing out of the way that takes longer than you think it will sometimes). And as long as the people you're inviting know you're planning Indian food, I wouldn't worry about what they'll like or not. If they show up, they're probably up for anything. Have fun :)
I stopped worrying about broken ar windows after replacing them with chicken wire!
Tell us how the party turns out.
First: I'm sure you know that Pakistani cusisine and Indian is the same. After all, we were once the same land mass.
second: Your space problem. Turn the Indian party into a theme. That means food to be served on the floor (I hope you have a good mat or rug.) I know, I know, people in the West like tables (so do I?) but a theme aprty will do well.
third: Get rid of forks and spoons. Eat with hands. That means lots of meat and gravy. Ok , put the forks back in for sslad. The spoons you need for dessert.
forth: at the end of dinner, tea or qahwah is a must. No running away from that.
Bollywood movie: good thriller: Gajini, but this is not masala.
If you want a standard masala movie: hmmmm...what do you have in mind?
Ok any other free advice, you know where to ask:)
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