10 Ways To Ruin A Dinner Party.
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Everybody loves a dinner party and they are excellent times to get your friends or family together and reconnect or celebrate. A great idea to keep in touch with your friends is to have a dinner party night set up on a regular basis. You can have friends visit your home one-week and you can visit theirs the next. These are great for keeping in touch with your friends as well as celebrate with each other. Dinner parties are also excellent celebrations for birthdays, anniversaries, new babies, and other life events.
Here are 10 ways to ensure that any dinner party you throw will be a complete failure.
- Invite conflicting guests - This is a great way to ensure trouble before your meal is even served but this can be hard to achieve especially when the group of people you plan to invite all know each other. Your best bet is to try and include partners and friends who are less connected to the group, preferrably with strong beliefs on subjects like religion, politics, ethics, or sexuality.
- Make sure you don’t serve appetizers or drinks while you’re the guests are waiting for you to complete the preparations. What you want to avoid is your guests talking amongst themselves and potentially having fun. Ideally you want to make sure they have no food or drinks to snack on at all during this time so they have no energy with which to carry on any kind of interesting conversation.
- Take your time with the cooking, particularly time after the guests have arrived and are waiting. The worst thing you can do is have everything ready shortly after everyone has arrived. Surprisingly, people like to wait extended periods of time with the smells of a delicious meal filling their nostrils without actually being able to eat it. This is particularly true if you have gotten steps 1 and 2 right and in combination, these three can create a strong sense of frustration, anxiety and general overwhelm at the whole evening.
- Make loud noises, cries of frustration and excessive amounts of smoke be clearly noticeable to your guests as coming from the kitchen. In the best case scenario, by the time your guests are at the table, they will be so concerned about what all the racket was in there, they’ll be too scared to enjoy their meal no matter how good it is!
- Serve an offensive dish - This part is easy. Anything from particularly objectionable types of seafood, foods that are too spicy, even the humble red meat can cause offence if one of your friends has decided to become vegetarian just for the occasion… If you choose wisely, you’ll surely be able to offend at least 20% of your guests with this one…
- Overcook, undercook or generally just wrongly cook the food you have prepared. If steak, you want blood, if chicken, you want raw flesh. You will know something is wrong if at LEAST one person doesn’t leave with food poisoning.
- Next it’s all about attitude. Your goal should be to show a blatant disregard for what your guests might want. A good way to do this is to bring desert out immediately after the main meals conclusion without asking anyone how they’re feeling. You don’t want the guest to feel like they have any control over the evening whatsoever.
- Keep the desserts in the freezer while you’re preparing dinner. This will ensure that even though the serving will look delicious, even the most durable spoon will not be able to penetrate it’s icy surface.
- Ask everyone what they thought of the meal, one by one and have them answer in front of the group.
- Invite them back for another dinner party! IF they aren’t upset about everything that just happened, inviting them back to go through the ordeal again will surely tip them over the edge.
Dinner parties can also take on different themes. Murder mystery parties are especially popular with you have enough willing participants. You can also have food style themes such as soup parties for the winter months or Thai dinner parties for an exotic twist. Whichever party you choose you want to be certain that you have an excellent menu and some fine wine.
A simple dinner party with friends is the easiest to plan. If you know your friends well, then it should be relatively simple for you to plan the menu. You will also want some great dessert planned and perhaps even some fun games for after dinner. These are great and casual parties that allow you to just kick back and enjoy being with friends. Perhaps next week they will invite you over for dinner. These types of parties are also great alternatives to going out to eat, as you get to try different styles of cooking without breaking the bank.
A formal dinner party can also be a lot of fun. Sometimes you just like to dress up and have some fun. The menu should be something special and not something that you all eat on a regular basis, however, the meal should be easy to prepare so that you are not in the kitchen all night and not able to enjoy the company of your friends.
Once you have your style figured out, you will need to begin planning how much time it is going to take to prepare the meal. You want to have plenty of time to conversate with your friends and you want to have time to enjoy the meal yourself. Be sure to plan ample time for cooking, visiting and cleaning. You also need to consider who is coming and if their diet has any restrictions. You may have some friends who are allergic to shellfish, so your Shrimp Scampi might not be the best recipe idea. You may also have friends who are vegetarians, so your New York Strip steaks might not be a great idea either. Be sure to plan plenty of time for grocery shopping and recipe preparation or adjustments.
For a more formal affair, you may choose to print out small menus and invitations to your dinner party. If so, your preparation will need to begin early enough so that you are able to announce the party and ensure that all guests are invited and able to RSVP in time. You may also need to purchase special paper for menus and invitations. You will also want to be sure that your guests are compatible. Do not invite individuals that may not get a long together and be sure to invite those who will be disheartened if you don’t invite them. Try to invite people with the same interests so that there will be a good flow of conversation.
Next, you will need to determine how you are going to serve the food. Are you going to allow guests to serve themselves via a buffet in your kitchen or are all dishes going to be sat on the table. For a formal dinner party, you may plan to have all plates prepared and delivered to guests sitting at the table… [read more]
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