The Dinner Party

I'm having a mini, yet awesome, dinner party tomorrow for myself, don, emily, and eric. I really want to make a very delectable meal, but i cant make it for just myself! So i decided to treat the 3 people who have been taking care of my mental health for the last few months. Our Menu is as follows:

Caprese Salad
Lemony Fettuccine Alfredo with Asparagus
Oven-Fried Chicken
Golden Delicious Apple Pie

im quite excited at this prospect, considering i also acquired a few new additions to my kitchen:

A Knife set (FINALLY - it even came with 12 steak knives)
Dishes and Bowls (they are gorgeous stoneware - black outside and purple inside and the set came with 4 matching mugs)
Flatware (straight up awesome, no detail, just smoothness)
A cutting board that is the EXACT width of my small counter

although, obtaining these items was an ordeal. I went to Kmart with the intention of getting Custard Cups (the original idea for dessert was Lava Baby Cakes) and getting place settings and such if they were cheap. Well, the dishes were only $14 for settings for four (Dinner Plates, Dessert Plates, Bowls, Mugs) and so were the knives. The flatware was 10 and the cutting board was too, but i was ok with that considering it was the Martha Stewart Collection and the Kmart brand didn't make a wooden cutting board and i wasn't going to get a plastic one. So i get all my stuff (clearly, no custard cups since the dessert is Apple Pie) and walk back home. I get home, unpack all of my awesomeness to discover, much to my chagrin, that the dinner plates are all broken. After much hemming and hawing, and speaking with the Baron von Fishenstein, i went back to kmart to exchange the set. I thought it was gonna be a slight pain, but it was not AND i got the last set of purple/black dishes in the store. So i counted myself lucky.

all i need now are wine glasses (red AND white), a colander, and a complete spice kit and ill be totally set.

tomorrow, after i get out of class, I have to go buy everything for dinner and clean up the apartment and figure out how to get 4 people to eat in my little kitchen. im going to have to steal svets chair i think. needless to say, this is going to be a lavish evening where my friends will be spoiled rotten by my desire to play mommy. i cant wait!

then on friday, im going with to lunch with Professor Haas with Kyle and Jeff. Im positively swoooooning.

peace. love. penguin.
much heart.