Channeling my mother
Aug 22nd, 2008 by Dani
It’s totally freaky when you feel yourself actually morphing into your own mother. In fact I think I actually turned into a cariacture of her today.
Dear ol’ Mum loved to throw a dinner party. She was jolly good at it too. The house would be scrubbed. Scrubbed! Ceiling to skirting board, the house would be gleaming. We would be banned from using the toilet until after the event so it would stay clean, luckily we lived a short walk from the train station. Scrumptious food would be prepared and the table set. Not with everyday settings of course, the good china (Countrware by Colaport) would come out, the silvery cutlery and flatware polished, the stemware shining. There would be vase of flowers in every room. The woman knew how to entertain. Not only was her presentation immaculate, she was a great hostess, a fabulous time was had by all, every time.
Well I’m still in preparation mode for tomorrow night but the house is gleaming, flowers in vases, good dinner set out, silver polished and so on and so forth. Let’s just hope the evening is as much fun as Mum’s dinner parties always were!
In the meantime, I threw baked eggs at the family tonight, I’ve got more important fish to fry than mundane meals right now. Thanks to AOF for the inspiration.
baked eggs with tomato, spinach, feta, olives and prosciutto
Sounds fab. I just love dinner parties, especially the grown-up ones. Whatcha cooking? But I hope the family can hold on until tomorrow night to use the toilet… ;P
You’ll have to wait for the recipe reveal. Big post coming
Fortunately for the family we’re too far away from the station (funnily enough our closest station is the same one I was sent to as a child). I’ll just clean it again shortly before our guests arrive.