Spontaneous Dinner with Guests

Some of life's happiest moments are unplanned.


Spontaneous dinner parties are among them.


The other night, rummaging around in the freezer, I found a kielbasa.  Now this spicy sausage is something that brings me back to childhood and my Polish grandparents. 


Luckily, I had cabbage in the veggie drawer, left over from making stuffed cabbages.


Because potatoes had been on sale, I had two bagfuls of those. 


So I popped the kielbasa into boiling water, chopped up the cabbage and put it into hot olive oil, and peeled the potatoes, quartered and boiled them.

Then, I washed and cut up three big fat green peppers and some onions and added them, too, to some hot oil in a frying pan.


Because the cabbage makes  the house kind of smelly, I lit a cinnamon orange candle in the hallway.

 Called my daughter and her husband.

 Would they like to come for a spontaneous Polish dinner?

Oh yes, they would, indeed.





Quick,  quick, quick, I set the table with yellow quilted place mats from the Christmas Tree Shops and plunked down blue cobalt plates.

Whoops! Dessert. Aha!  I quickly cut up half each of a  honeydew melon and a cantaloupe. 

In the middle went blackberries and raspberries.


I mixed a couple tablespoons of confectioners sugar with the same amount of boiling water and added some bottled lemon juice. Stirred well and poured over melon. 

 By this time, the kitchen was a little hot so on went the fan.

Before I knew it, the guests arrived, happy and hungry. 

The spontaneous dinner turned out to be a yummy success.

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DO YOU LIKE SPONTANEOUS DINNERS WITH GUESTS?