Do You Feel Like You Are “Surrounded By Assassins?”

When you are writing a supper club menu or cooking a dinner party meal you can feel like you are “Surrounded by Assassins”. Everyone can be a critic. In today’s world it seems it is easier to complain versus complement. My experience with supper clubs is just the opposite.

When you are hosting people to enable socializing over a meal, people are generally very appreciative. Supper clubbers are just glad to be there. If they don’t like a menu or the meal you might not hear about it. People that have been invited to a dinner party tend to be nice.

It is sort of like the scene from the movie “Notting Hill” where Julia Roberts who is a vegetarian is asked by the cook how she liked the Guinea Fowl? Her response was: “It is the best guinea fowl I have ever eaten”. The cook was complemented. As Julia Roberts is leaving the cook’s wife tells Julia that: “I’ll wait till after you leave before I tell him you are a vegetarian”.

It is pretty much the same at supper clubs. People are filled with complements at the party. As they walk to their cars or when you next see someone in the neighborhood you might hear a bit of negativity.

The most common downfalls involve over cooking. My blog about cooking the perfect steak should alleviate that risk for my blog readers. I have been the target of criticism that menus I have written are too difficult. There is another blog about that one.

The beauty of supper clubs is that with several items on the menu and several cooks involved in the preparation the chances are pretty good that you won’t go home hungry.

If all else fails there is pretty much always alcohol involved, My father used to always comment about his challenged carpentry skills that: “Paint covers a lot of sins”. Having a decent bottle of wine will usually keep the assassins happy.

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