S/O What is the unobjectionable meal to serve to guests

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Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

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Anonymous wrote:Misdelivered ham
Boiled potatoes
3 spears of asparagus

It’s 2 thin spears per person, remember? And you forgot baked ziti.

(Though I admit I need a reference for the misdelivered ham)

Enjoy!

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Anonymous wrote:Something where you have options. You could easily do a sandwich spread where you can make your own sandwich if you need to have someone over for lunch, which I think is very odd when it’s a coworker and not a family member who you know well. But besides that, if you’re stuck with only one option, and for some reason, you can’t eat it, like my coworkers wife would never know that I have a red onion allergy and would be in their bathroom having diarrhea immediately, if they were just serving gazpacho, I would be screwed

I hate sandwiches.

But would you hate them if you had a choice of 5 different kinds of home baked bread to eat them on? And perfectly sliced deli meat?

I would eat the meat and bread separately.

Also this isnt cooking someone dinner, it’s going to a deli and buying a bunch of stuff and placing it on a table. Fine, but I would never serve that. I like to cook. —NP

It was a joke based on a thread from awhile ago that got fairly hilarious https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1140100.page

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

I LOVE dill, but cooked salmon is the only seafood I won't eat. I like it raw or smoked, but roasted and cooked through I find vile. I would eat the rest of this dinner though and am a "choke it down til you vomit" go along type so I'd swallow the salmon too with a smile, but yah. Cooked salmon is the worst the fish world has to offer.

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Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

I LOVE dill, but cooked salmon is the only seafood I won't eat. I like it raw or smoked, but roasted and cooked through I find vile. I would eat the rest of this dinner though and am a "choke it down til you vomit" go along type so I'd swallow the salmon too with a smile, but yah. Cooked salmon is the worst the fish world has to offer.

NP. I like dill but can't eat salmon. I wouldn't even be able to choke it down.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

I LOVE dill, but cooked salmon is the only seafood I won't eat. I like it raw or smoked, but roasted and cooked through I find vile. I would eat the rest of this dinner though and am a "choke it down til you vomit" go along type so I'd swallow the salmon too with a smile, but yah. Cooked salmon is the worst the fish world has to offer.

NP. You are blowing my mind right now. Salmon is my favorite! I’m surprised you like it raw or smoked but not cooked 🤔

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Honestly, it depends on who they are, what the season is, etc.
I like to highlight the fruit and veg in season and build the menu from there….or a theme, like a regional Indian menu or Vietnamese menu or whatever

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

I LOVE dill, but cooked salmon is the only seafood I won't eat. I like it raw or smoked, but roasted and cooked through I find vile. I would eat the rest of this dinner though and am a "choke it down til you vomit" go along type so I'd swallow the salmon too with a smile, but yah. Cooked salmon is the worst the fish world has to offer.

NP. You are blowing my mind right now. Salmon is my favorite! I’m surprised you like it raw or smoked but not cooked 🤔

That poster probably grew up in the tri-state area eating bagels and lox with cream cheese.

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When I throw big parties, I mostly stick to either a BBQ (if it's a summer party) or Italian food. 2 nice Italian pastas, 1 meat (roast chicken or smoked salmon), 2 nice salads. Most people seem to like Italian. (Most of my guests are white and American, so YMMV)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

I LOVE dill, but cooked salmon is the only seafood I won't eat. I like it raw or smoked, but roasted and cooked through I find vile. I would eat the rest of this dinner though and am a "choke it down til you vomit" go along type so I'd swallow the salmon too with a smile, but yah. Cooked salmon is the worst the fish world has to offer.

NP. You are blowing my mind right now. Salmon is my favorite! I’m surprised you like it raw or smoked but not cooked 🤔

That poster probably grew up in the tri-state area eating bagels and lox with cream cheese.

NP- I too like it raw or smoked. Cooked salmon is the least tasty way to prepare salmon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Air and a WASPy gin and tonic.

Are you people really hungry again? But you just ate! I wasn’t planning to serve anything again until we have a little grilled fish and a green bean at 7.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

Grow up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a dinner party with 4-6 guests, I make roasted salmon with dill, lemon orzo, steamed asparagus, a seasonal salad and bread and butter.

This sounds delicious.

NP. I hate dill.

Grow up.

I like the smell of dill in chicken soup but wouldn't want to eat it on salmon.

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Anonymous wrote:Air and a WASPy gin and tonic.

Are you people really hungry again? But you just ate! I wasn’t planning to serve anything again until we have a little grilled fish and a green bean at 7.

after my nap

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Anonymous wrote:Air and a WASPy gin and tonic.

Are you people really hungry again? But you just ate! I wasn’t planning to serve anything again until we have a little grilled fish and a green bean at 7.

lol this is my mom. And by "just ate" she means we had a "big brunch" of three bites of scrambled eggs and one sausage link like 5+ hours ago.