Sunday lunch menu for foodie and his pg wife - please help!

[bossykate]

OK what about this?

to start:
apple, bacon and celeriac salad with toasted hazelnuts on a bed of frisee (pg alert - hazelnuts, bagged salad???)

main:
roast duck with baked apples & apple sauce, roast potatoes, herb & parmesan stuffed portabellini mushrooms (too much? too rich?), steamed tenderstem brocolli.

pudding:
poached pears in vanilla syrup, vanilla ice cream, hot chocolate sauce.

is this good enough for a foodie? will it be ok for a pg woman?

normally confident (if simple) cook, bk cravenly seeks reassurance from mn cooks! tia

horrid when guests are foodies though

I had to cook dinner for a friend who used to own her own (v successful) restaurant in NZ - I really stressed about it AND everything went wrong

mushrooms will look nice on table even if too rich to eat (I would have one)

I love peas with roast duck too and its quite a foodie thing to serve

i realise no-one is listening any more, but...

dh phoned them this am. ms ok - only request was no fish - fine, no problem. but dh reminded me that they are chronically, incurably, disastrously late for everything, always...

so we are now having sausages braised with borlotti beans and sage (will just stay in the slow cooker until needed), green salad with parmesan and toasted pine nuts, warm ciabatta, followed by the poached pears as before. so nothing that can spoil - it can all just wait till required.

will do other menu some other time!

thanks for all the helpful comments

bossykate, I'm listening! I thought you were going to say her MS is so bad she is only eating dry crackers and fresh air! Oh well, you can't go wrong with a sausage! Have a lovely time.

that sounds totally yum

can I come

BK,your food sounds divine.If I was lucky enough to be invited out,wouldn't dream of putting in requests.
They're lucky to be cooked for at all.
People with good manners work around what is available.

Don't like lateness thoguh.

bk that sounds ideal

thanks

don't worry, i will have crackers etc on hand just in case!

god i had round the clock morning sickness until about 25 wks - luckily eating cured it - i could eat absolutely anything and i would feel better. i was eating about six big meals per day and didn't put on any weight. did half monster 10 1/2 lb baby though...

s/be "have" monster baby not "half" monster baby - lol

hi everyone

just a quick update since so many people made the effort to post kind and helpful comments.

it all went very well! the menu change was a masterstroke as they were 2 hours late! i made braised sausages with borlotti beans rosemary and sage in the slow cooker (halve the amount of liquid for slow cooker cooking) and it was bliss - didn't spoil and ready when needed. scales up very easily.

Pudding was poires belle helene - used vanilla ice cream rather than whipped cream or creme chantilly (even easier). did the pears on sat night, so again no fuss on sunday.

our pg friend is over her morning sickness so was fine and our foodie friend said he is going to buy a slow cooker. phew.

thanks to everyone for their help

hooray!

we ended up doing roast chicken for 9 people (2 chickens)

and I made an apple pie in fit of domestic goddessness and the pastry was too short and it crumbled to bits and looked a bit yuck - also I spiced the apple too much for the kids so all in all was disaster

2 hours

how rude!

Enid

why, thank'ee batters, m'dear

enid, that is a shame about the pie - although "looks a bit yuck" is something that doesn't even figure as something to worry about in our house, so you're way ahead of us there! i love roast chicken... mmm.

cd - yeah they are incorrigible. but we do like them v. much (really good to catch up with them on sunday, it's been quite a while) so it's worth working round them...

TWO HOURS LATE!! They are taking the P.