#dinner party foods

[toyastales]

Fried Chicken and Mashed Potatoes

[daily-deliciousness]

Beef tenderloin crostini with parmesan wine cream sauce

[notbecauseofvictories]

also I've spent the last couple weeks reading some older historical romance novels, and my made up, wholly unverified hypothesis that in the 2000s romance authors finally grasped that the old-fashioned "no, don't! stop, you brute" etc. scenes were not really landing with audiences anymore. So they faced a conundrum about the future of the genre. Ultimately, I think they chose to quietly stop writing those heroes, and switch them out for a more sensitive model. Still dark and brooding! But with limits, often a Heart of Gold, and more general emotional intelligence.

Still, somewhere out there is a parallel universe where these authors decided to take the opposite approach---to write heroines as unhinged, cruel, impulsive, and emotionally ignorant as their heroes. I don't know if I want to live there, but I wouldn't mind a trip to their library sometime.

[catfindr]

[kkimura]

今年はサンクスギビングの前日にクリスマスツリーを購入！　🎄🎄🎄

大抵はサンクスギビング終わってからが一般的だけど、クリスマス大好き人間な私は待ちきれませんでしたー！🥳🎁

そしてこのデーツにブルーチーズはさんで、ベーコンで巻いたやつ、毎回パーティ事があると作るんだけど、出したら秒で無くなってしまうくらい美味しいんです！ぜひ作ってみて欲しい！🥂

I got a Xmas tree a day before Thanksgiving this year!! Woo hoo! 🥳

I love Xmas and couldn’t wait to feel the vibe! 🎄

Oh and these devils on horseback (bacon wrapped dates and blue cheese)…which I make every time I have dinner party or holiday party. They are super yummy and disappear in like 1 minute every time! 😧

[bogkeep]

i DO make a token effort to go to social events with people from school, because You Never Know and also it's easy enough to just leave whenever. my school has a tradition of arranging a big christmas dinner at a restaurant every year for all the students and teachers, so of course i went the first time. unfortunately my memories from that event are thus:

- i thought the cold apetizers buffet was the main meal. i had no concept of traditional swedish christmas food and it was in a separate room, far away from the warm rood buffet. it was very sad and disappointing. i had the warm food eventually, but i don't even remember what i ate. It Was Probably Just Fine

- teacher made us sing swedish drinking songs and i didn't even know how the melodies were supposed to go :(

- it was incredibly noisy and near impossible to speak to the people sitting right next to me, let alone across the narrow table. i was trying to chat with a girl in the year above me who i quite liked, except she was trying to tell me that NFTs as a concept were good actually, and it was too loud for me to do anything but shake my head at her in shock and panicked dissent...............

sooooooooo i decided it simply wasn't worth the effort. if it sucks hit da bricks. and if anyone asks me if i'm SURE i'm not coming i'm like sorrry nooo i have to catch a train, tragic i know,

[pseudophan]

my aunt's being a cunt so now my mum's sobbing in the living room everything is so awesome all of the time

[naileadevoras]

[cafeanthology]

blackened salmon in a cajun cream sauce

i served this with pasta but it'd be just as good with a nice bowl of rice!

[kirkwallguy]

I get that it's game mechanics but they go and do the clunkiest dialogue for poor Taash's gender search and then present you with a binary choice for their culture like??? Haven't we just talked about not having to do either of these. You have a half dozen codex entries on queer Tevinters helping them through this but they gotta pick ONE culture.

The bird feeding and meeting Karash was cool! Why is the rest of Taash's companion storyline so... bleh. If they needed to have a binary choice on their companion questline why did it have to be about something so personal and that Bioware is so goddamn bad at.

it's just so fascinating to me that this was written and went through multiple edits like... even if it gets miraculously better later and the conclusion of their story is "they can be non-binary with their culture AND their gender :)" (which is still uh. in the words of jessica, not everything feels like something else.) it's still crazy to have them talk about being forced into boxes and then have you choose to encourage them to pursue one culture or the other, especially since it feels implied that qunari culture is traditional and stifling while rivaini culture is accepting and free, even though so far we've barely SEEN any of either culture lol.

[toyastales]

Cowboy Butter Chicken Skewers

[daily-deliciousness]

Cheesy chicken and broccoli crescent ring

[vegan-nom-noms]

Potluck Ideas:

Everyone brings a potato dish! Think stuffed potatoes, potato gratin, potato salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, etc.

Everyone brings a pink dish! Perfect for a Barbie movie night or a girly night in.

Everyone brings a Mexican dish! Or you could even do Indian, Chinese, Korean, etc.

Everyone brings a festive dish! (Halloween, Friendsgiving, Christmas or Easter, St Patrick’s Day, etc.)

Everyone brings a dish starting with the letter of their name! See a list of foods here.

Everyone brings a breakfast for dinner dish! You can never go wrong with waffles and pancakes.

Everyone brings a charcuterie board!

Everyone brings their favourite childhood food! What’s nostalgic for you?

Everyone brings a movie themed dish! I have lots of ideas here.

Everyone brings a seasonal dish! (Summer, Autumn/Fall, Winter or Spring.)

Everyone brings a dish from their favourite cook book! Mine is The Little Book Of Vegan Bakes by Holly Jade.

Everyone brings a State Fair dish! (Think corn dogs, funnel cake, loaded fries, etc)

Battle of the burgers! Everyone brings their favourite burgers/sliders and vote who’s is best!

[life-spire]

[studymoons]

recent meals with loved ones

since starting med school, i’ve found that one of the easiest ways to make time for friends and socializing is through sharing and enjoying meals together :-)