So I am having a feast on Sunday

So I am having a feast on Sunday.
Do you guys every have dinner parties? What do you make? Tell me about them!
I am baking some bread and serving a heart bean and bacon soup. I have a friend bringing a salad, and one bringing a savory meat pie, one brining a dessert, and one bringing wine. I am providing beer. I not so good about decor. I only have a few table cloths, but I have a really nice double leaf table with 6 chairs.
I wish I had some good candelabras.

a feast? how about a salad and walk, fatty?

I told you, someone is bringing a salad.
Stupid ho bringing the meat pie was supposed to be bringing dessert, but we aren't good at communicating.
I was going to run get some rotisserie chickens up until them.

The entire floor (about 15 people) in my apartment building have a big dinner party almost every weekend. People drop me ingredients throughout the week and I generally do all of the cooking with the exception of maybe a salad or dessert sometimes. I really like to do a lasagna with homemade pasta and a scratch sauce usually made earlier in the week. Another one that's been popular is my chicken pot pie and my shepherd pie. Last week I did a stuffed pork loin that came out amazing, I'll be using the leftover gravy in my next shepherd pie for sure.

That all sounds amazing!! I love the idea of neighbor's getting together and having a good time. I bought this house a year and ahAlf ago and I don't really know any of my neighbor's.

But we do often entertain. A handful of parties a year, and we host some of the many friends and family who come into town from far away for a few days pretty often.
4 or 5 months ago a friend of ours from about 15 years ago came through touring with his band (him+4) I invited them all to dinner, and They ended up crashing.
My friend warned me that they had two vegetarians and a vegan in the band. I was like challenge accepted! Lasagna is my favorite vegetarian main course, and I was even able to make a vegan version in this tiny loaf pan I happened to have.
I have only ever made shepherds pie once, half assed and out of leftovers, but it turned out amazing. I'll have to try it again. I have been trying not to turn on the oven lately though, since it's upper 90sF lately.

Are you ironically being a faggot or what the hell is going on with your writing style?

Yesterday was the worst dinner I have ever had. I make a rule of not socializing with coworkers, and I should not have broken it. This may take 2 posts, it was THAT bad.

6 coworkers met at someone's house yesterday under the pretense of "Irish stew". I grudgingly accepted the invitation and arrived at 2 pm (when I was told to come). I brought traditional soda bread that had to be baked first. The host made a bit of a stink about using the oven when he had other things in there, but I told him I wanted it fresh.

The stew was still cooking and the host was already drinking alcohol at this time. In the middle of a conversation with a member of the opposite sex, the host tells me, "Please, no talk about politics. PLEASE not today". I said if more people talked about politics we would be in a better country, and he got very argumentative so I just dropped it.

I was drinking apple juice that I brought over and the host kept trying to get me to have a beer. He was obviously intoxicated and starting saying how maybe I would be relaxed and "cooler" if I had some alcohol. It was pathetic, like peer pressure from a high school TV show.

Anyway, at that point I became withdrawn and went for a walk. I came back right before dinner, and that is when the fun started.

He made "Irish stew" with beef, carrots, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, hot sauce, oregano, tomato, and various ingredients. I started telling others that proper Irish stew should only contain mutton, potato, onion, and water, and that beef, tomato, black pepper, hot sauce, and other ingredients would not be available then and therefore it was a modern stew, not Irish stew.

We started eating and someone asked me about what I had said about real Irish stew. The host looked annoyed so I told him. He turned red and told me if I didn't like it I could "get the fuck out and take my apple juice with me".

I was shocked and speechless. He left the room and his girlfriend (they are unmarried but live together) apologized. Eventually, people started talking more comfortably and he came back and was brooding and drinking more.

The stew was okay, but not authentic. I asked him if he knew that mutton was on sale at a local store and he flew into a tirade, bringing up any small error or faux pas I have ever committed at work. People were trying to calm him down, and I simply responded to him in a quiet and calm voice, and said that I appreciated his invitation and his "take" on Irish stew, but it would have been nicer if the company had been more warm.

He got up and pulled me out of the chair, stretching my sweater at the neck. He was literally screaming in my face and had his fist up in a threatening manner.

I told him I would call the cops if he hit me. He then told me to get out and take my "fucking juice and shit bread" with him. A second loaf was still in the oven with 7 minutes left, and I said I wasn't leaving until it was cooked and I could take it.

He shouted at me to leave or he would call the cops ON ME (imagine) and then threw the bread out of the oven on the ground. I was shaking with emotions and told the group that I enjoyed my time with them but I couldn't say the same about the host.

It was a horrible affair, but I decided to make authentic Irish stew today, because I was let down yesterday and had a hankering for it. It is simmering on the stove and I plan on bringing it to lunch tomorrow, one bowl for me and some for the host. It will be a subtle form of revenge as well as a way to show him that I am a better cook and am the more mature, forgiving person.

Any other stories of hosts from hell? People who cannot act respectful towards others in their own home should not have dinner parties.

Thanks I love this. It's nearly as good as the Tupperware guy

I don't have friends so a 1 man dinner party is just depressing binging.
This pasta is stale as fuck.

Wtf? Not her, but she just sounds exhuberant and happy about what she cooks for gatherings. Not everyone is a Goth viewing life as a veil of tears and suffering.

why are you assuming gender?

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Fuck off you tryhard normie.

Fuck you're such a massive faggot. You accepted the invitation under the pretense of food and company not some archaic and convoluted notion of Irish Stew. Either way YOU accepted the invitation, no one forced you. Then you went out of your way to trouble the host with your fucking "traditional" bread. The host tries to quell arguments about politics and you try to start up an argument regardless. Then rather than having something to drink whether alcoholic or not from the host, you rudely bring your own drink as if to imply that what he has isn't good enough for you. To top it all off rather than enjoying the food like a normal person, you start whining like a little kid about it not being precisely what you wanted. You then had the gall to say this directly to the host and embarrass him in front of his guests. You couldn't leave well enough alone and you brought it up again as if to call him an idiot by not knowing about a local sale on mutton. Finally after disturbing the gathering multiple times you were asked to leave and you decided to refuse to vacate from someone else's property. Somehow you were surprised when your fucking bullshit escalated and you're lucky he didn't knock your lights out. Fuck' s sake man get your autism checked and learn to appreciate other people's efforts. Not everybody is trying to please you and you should've been content with some free food and some company, but instead you were withdrawn and left the gathering for a walk and then proceeded to berate the host despite his meal being fine.

Not sure if fresh but definitely deserves a (You)

Fucking autist, I hate people like you.

>What do you make?
Usually make fresh bread (I will admit to using a breadmaker for the mixing), and some kind of stew in the slowcooker (cassoulet, gumbo etc.) For entertaining I tend to like cooking stuff that tastes good, but is easy to make and doesn't require a lot of attention in it, so you can spend more time with your guests

always fresh never frozen

Awww the pasta got someone hard
I can't imagine what you're talking about.
Word. I like to entertain.
Every time I make bread I am like "This is so easy, why don't I do this every week?" Then I just, don't make bread.
I think it's the lack of available counter space. I have a big kitchen, but there is a lot of empty space where an island should be.

>I think it's the lack of available counter space
That's the main reason I use a breadmaker for mixing and kneading, takes up a lot less space, and I've already got a tiny kitchen (two people in it is one too many)

>there is a lot of empty space where an island should be.
Sounds like a good reason to visit