Our friend Matt is leaving for Vietnam for two months soon and since I wasn’t up to go to his leaving do Friday night (I put on my frog pj’s and huddled under a blankie on the sofa watching a 40 year Old Virgin and it was great) I invited him to dinner either this weekend or next week so I could see him.
Through his French accent, I heard that he had plans this weekend but maybe next week and that he would let me know. It turns out that what he actually said through the French accent was yes to dinner Sunday night.
Who knew.
So off to the store yesterday I went.
I’m low-carbing but they aren’t, so I wanted to find something that I could have and that I can give them, which will still leave me left overs for work lunches.
I decided on an old family favourite, something we call Popeye Chicken. It is basically a orangy spicy chicken and spinach fettuccini dish. My thought was that I would eat the chicken and the spinach with a lovely green salad and they would have the fettuccini. Went to the store Saturday afternoon. Got all the stuff.
Sorted.
Last night while I was getting ready to meet Al and his Sis and her boyfriend to watch the Rugby, Stuart came in the bedroom.
“I screwed up.”
“What?”
He had invited a couple over as well that for months I have been saying that we should have over, which normally would be fine. Great actually. They are lovely people. . . Except one of them is a vegetarian. His being a vegetarian would be fine normally too- just not when I have already been to the store and the menu was sorted.
So now my conundrum is: Do I continue on with the dish and keep all meat products and anything cooked with meat out of the fettuccini- and make a onion, spinach mixture sans chicken for him- or do I make something else altogether and just use everything I bought for dinner for myself during the week.
Bloody Vegetarians. He is also French. Isn’t there a law if you are French you can’t be a vegetarian?
September 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
i vote for the first option!