Dinner party

After I got married, I knew I'd have to play hostess at some point or the other, but that it would come so soon & that too for so many people was something i did not expect. We hosted a dinner party for my hubby's ex-roomies. They were 7 in all, 7 full grown males & I dreaded to think of their even bigger appetites. As it is I'm very nervous about cooking for guests, more so when they are all men because you never know how much they will all eat. I'm petrified of that fact that the food may not be enough for us all. We started off by afternoon, though we planned to start in the morning itself. He was a bigger help than i envisioned & gradually i burdened him with more work than i had decided to give him. He cut up onions in the chopper, cut up beans into teeny weeny pieces for me, peeled the skin off the chicken drumsticks we bought & sampled all the items which i thought were ready for the table. So we ended up with rice (lots of it, only because of my above said fear) chicken curry, fish roast made from tilapia fillets(i believe this is my masterpiece),sambar(kerala style) beans thoran, cabbage mizhukkuperatti & salad. The boys were far from being punctual, landed exactly an hour late. We offered a variety of drinks wine/beer/juice & chips to go with it. To everyone's good fortune, we had a movie called "The Gods must be crazy" & we all started watching that. Everyone enjoyed the food, especially the fish & the sambar. I thought of my appachi who had painstakingly made the powder for me for my first US trip. Ice cream was offered as dessert with the option of chocolate sauce to go with it. Though we did not expect them to get us anything, to our surprise, they got us a blender, 2 greeting cards, a TARGET gift card & chocolates. They couldn't have been more perfect in their roles as guests. This taught me never to underestimate people, sometimes the most surprising behavior comes out of people you least expect it from.