Dinner is served

The perfect dinner party: fine wine, four courses, petit fours, and not forgetting the gaggle of rich and successful friends to share your feast. It’s all Marks and Sparks food-porn lady, “this is not just a dinner party, this is an M&S dinner party” in your head. But the reality for most bright young things is less Nigella, and more stuffed crust Pizza Hut while watching Come Dine With Me. We don’t have the cash, or willpower to pull off the perfect dinner party. Hell, if you’re renting a flat you’re lucky to even have a dining table.

Cooking for friends is awesome though. You can’t go wrong with boozy dinners, or (in some cases still boozy) hangover brunches. Some of my most sparkly and smile-icious memories are from these events. My friends cook lush food, and if all goes according to plan (ha!) this blog will be a catalogue of their highs.

I’m Jo. I’m 23. I live in Glasgow. Despite eating huge quantities of food on a daily basis I’m not (yet) morbidly obese – yay!

The Rules
1. Recipes must either be for a dinner party or a hangover munch. Booze isn’t essential, but lets face it, it always helps.
2. All recipes must have been cooked by real people. Entertaining background information will be provided where appropriate.
3. They can’t be nicked out the latest WH Smith touted all colour cookbook, by a famous chef with a culinary ‘concept’ to flog. If you do ‘borrow’ some ideas make them your own.
4. Nicking stuff from your Mum is OK though.
5. Recipes must feed a minimum of four, but the bigger the party the better.
6. They shouldn’t break the bank… official recession now people, lets leave the caviar to the crumbly oligarchs.