I only had about half my day to plan and prepare a dinner party for twelve people. I did not have even one idea yet and I was a little apprehensive.
This wasn’t any normal dinner party; this was for all of my husband’s business partners. If I wasn’t able to pull this off, he could lose a big upcoming deal, and there would go that new house that we were looking at.
I had mapped out all the rooms in my head and decided what I wanted to use each room for. I then searched relentlessly for recipes and ideas for a very elegant dinner. However, many of the ideas I found looked inexpensive and plain and I began to have concerns.
If I served a boring pot roast or mediocre meatloaf, we were going to be in big trouble. I needed something spectacular. As I browsed the pages for inspiration, a lightbulb came on in my head. I needed seafood. Seafood recipes are classy and would be the perfect dish.
There was a local fish market not that far, and it had just about anything a girl could dream of. Since I couldn’t just order ‘take-out’, and had to make something amazing, seafood would be the way to go on this one! I stared at pages and pages of great choices.
Elegant seafood is more than shellfish with so many choices of fish based seafood recipes. Most of the recipes use cod, Chilean sea bass,red snapper or haddock, but I was surprised that all things tripe were suggested as other good choices. When I created that meal, I felt like a famous television chef.
Of course, an obvious choice to make a good impression would have been a recipe using lobster. However, I noticed that there were some very interesting crab based dishes. I could still make something fabulous with the look and feel of fancy restaurant food that must have been catered. I’m thrilled that I selected a seafood recipe!
That night was a turning point. It was the very best dinner party we ever had. If not for the food, we could not have made the deal that boosted my husband’s income to six figures. I give credit to those seafood recipes for saving our life and securing our future.
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