I have an old friend visiting this weekend. She’s an amazing cook, likes to make everything from scratch, dislikes anything pre-made. She tends to stay occasionally when my DH is working away, as he is the weekend.
I’m not a good cook. I mean, I can feed the kids and not poison anyone but DH does the cooking and I tend to stick with things like slow cooker stews, pasta etc with plenty of veg to make me feel like I’m serving the kids something reasonable. These are often meat-based.
Friend is a vegetarian, and the food she cooks herself is never just basic pasta and salad, veggie chilli etc, she likes to eat more elaborate meals.
Friend was planning on coming late afternoon today, so we discussed dinner. She knows cooking isn’t my forte. Obviously I’m not just going to serve her pasta pesto, but every suggestion of mine was shot down. Nice quiche, gnocchi, filled pasta, I would have got garlic bread and made a good salad, none were acceptable. Doesn’t want takeaway either, even though we have a good choice here of delivery from decent restaurants. Friend finally announced they’d leave later than planned after having dinner first at home.
I can’t decide if I’m in the wrong here, should I have been practising something good and homemade to serve her? Or does have too high expectations if she only wants food of the standard she’d cook at home?