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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been wildly overthinking this. I was thinking some sort of lovely salad, a pretend fancy main dish (risotto? paella?) and then something for a dessert.

Folks are cool with this level of casual? Honestly, this is incredibly useful. I had been using dinner parties as experiments for fancy cooking, and it takes all day, and then I don't do them very often. I am dumb. ;)[/quote]

I think it’s a “know your crowd” thing. If it was an adults-only dinner party in my crowd, yes, fancier food would be expected. We have some serious home chefs, child-free people, and those who’ve pursued their sommelier designations as a hobby in our friend group. Not all people are this food-obsessed though. Many (including us) are fine with casual also, esp. when kids are involved.

Regardless, I still think knowing your people is important - someone posted that none of their friends eat pasta - all of mine do, but not as an everyday thing - so it’d need to be a “fancy” pasta - a simmer-for-hours bolognese sauce lasagna, the Ina rigatoni with sausage and fennel, or a lobster Mac and cheese type of situation. None of those are necessarily pastas that kids would love, either.

So ultimately I guess my take is - don’t conflate the two: there are weeknight dinners with children, and then there are weekend dinner parties for adults. You should not be expected to cook for one like it is the other.  [/quote]

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