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[quote=Anonymous]These stories are all about GOING to bad dinner parties. I threw one!

I invited my grad school advisor over for dinner with her husband (also a prof). My bf and I planned to make them dinner. I hadn’t really cooked before but my bf seemed to be good at it, so I let him take the lead. He’d lived in France and elsewhere and made me decent food when we ate in (this was in the early 90s).

As usual, we were so late and disorganized in planning this meal that I think we went SHOPPING for the ingredients just a few hours before they were to arrive. My bf said he had in mind a pork roast with prunes- French? It was an elaborate recipe from some old book. I was like cool- I was eating ramen most days- and went with him to the store. They didn’t have the kind of pork roast he wanted/needed, so he got some enormous other cut of pork and said, it’ll be fine, it’s cool.  That all took so long I didn’t really plan a dessert or anything else. I bought a tub of ice cream- that was it. In my mind I was like, this pork prune French thing will hit so big no one will even need dessert!

They arrive. The roast is not done. One hour later? Still no. Two? We pull it out anyway and serve “the parts that are done”. They are awful- tough, both gamely and yet still tasteless.

We run out of wine - turns out my advisor’s husband is an alcoholic. He also smokes like a chimney. They left hungry, I’m sure.

I still can’t remember this without laughing and being embarrassed.

I married the bf. But now I cook.  🤣[/quote]

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