Forum Index
»
Food, Cooking, and Restaurants
What do you make when another family comes over for dinner?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| I like pasta with two different sauces--one for the kids and one for the adults. I usually buy a box of DeCecco cavatappi because the adults like it and it's easy for the kids to eat. For the kids, the "sauce" is just butter with parmesan and a side of peas. For the adults, I like to mix browned italian sausage, some chicken broth, and rapini (baby broccoli). Crusty bread, wine, and ice cream and coffee for dessert. |
Anonymous
This is what we do. I do cook for us, but the pressure of cooking for others is just too much for me! |
It is always a big hit.
Anonymous
Sounds good to me. Order a few pizzas from a good pizza place (one plain, one veggie, one meat), make a salad at home, have some nice wine. Chocolate ice cream, cookies, and coffee/tea for dessert. |
Anonymous
| When our kids were younger we would order pizza for all the kids and I'd make something else for the adults. Usually, I tried to make a one-dish meal -- for example, stew in wintertime or steak salad in the summer. You can buy things to nibble on before dinner (while you're feeding the kids and getting them settled with a movie) and a dessert. And usually folks will offer to bring something, so you can ask them to bring along a salad or a nice loaf of bread -- that's easy. As most PPs have suggested, the key is to keep it simple and focus on your guests, rather than the food. Once your kids are older, if you enjoy cooking -- as I do -- you can do more fancy, multi-course dinner parties, but even now, with kids who are teens and tweens, most people entertain very casually. That's just fine -- in fact, our family really enjoyed a recent impromptu dinner invitation from neighbors with little kids, who just served pizza and ice cream for an early Sunday supper. |
Anonymous
|
Baked chicken fingers. Get chicken tenders, dip them in non-fat milk, coat/roll in italian-flavored breadcrumbs or corn flake crumbs (come in a box), and then bake in the oven. Kids love them and they taste great.
Or make your own pizzas. Get the crust from Giant, add some toppings and pop in the oven. Kids LOVE to help with the toppings. |