to think this is an OK pudding to take to friends this evening?

[emeraldgirl1]

I would normally make something proper puddingy but I am pregnant and drowning in work and could happily live without hours slaving over a stove.

So how would you react, if I came to your house this evening and you had cooked a starter and main, if I brought the following:

Strawberries
Luxury vanilla ice-cream from the posh ice-cream shop down the road
Homemade (this afternoon) chocolate chip cookies.

Does that sound OK? Would you think I had made no effort?

(will take wine too...)

Apart from the fact that I'm still able to buy local strawberries here so they can't be that far out of season, I'm never going to a friend's for dinner again if I might be frowned on for having fruit in the wrong season

If someone brought me Angel Delight or a packet of rich teas I'd be over the moon that it had crossed their minds :)

yum! yes, you can come round. in fact, meet me at my daughter's - her house is tidy...

By the way, I like dinner at mil far more than at my parents. The food is gourmet at my mums but the effort that's gone into it hangs heavy in the air, and if sufficient compliments and yummy noises are not forthcoming then there's a near sulk. At my mil, it's mostly shop bought, bar her amazing trifle (with jelly ). The welcome is amazing and she's made the effort because she loves us rather than to prove how clever she is. Feeling teary just thinking about it.

Oh and mil makes a fab coffee cake too

I'm so not talking to either of you right now cheeky [founces off in the best teenagery way I know!]

Don't flounce upper I can see your pants

Update to all lovely people who posted and invited me round for dinner that the dinner was lovely, cookies were a triumph and posh ice-cream a big hit. Honestly think it wound't have mattered if I took round a Viennetta though (in fact that might have been even more of a hit) as people were just drunk appreciative of something sweet by that stage.

Ta for all the encouragement! Cookies, ice-cream and strawberries is now my standard pudding. :)

Not wearing any

think it might be mine too.