. . . you ask for an elegant Hollywood dinner party for your 10th birthday.
For our 10 year old’s birthday party, she wanted to have a Hollywood party, complete with the red carpet entry, time to film a “movie”, an awards ceremony and an elegant dinner party.
For the menu, she chose caesar salad, steak, baby carrots (which were vetoed by my chef/husband who chose rainbow carrots instead), mashed potatoes, sparkling cider (in our expensive wine glasses – AHHHHH!!) and then sherbet cake for dessert.
As I helped with dinner in the kitchen, (and by help I mean stand and talk to my chef/husband while he was cooking) I overhead our 10 year old say, “My Dad’s a chef, you know.” Adorable!!
As I think about our Emulsified Family, I often forget that our children are figuring out how to combine restaurant and family life just as much as we are.
They deal with the long hours of a chef and a tired chef/daddy on his days off. But they also get to enjoy the perks of having a father who is a chef.
An elegant dinner party for a birthday was one of those perks.
It was pretty entertaining to watch 5 ten year olds as they tried to be serious and then were laughing hysterically a few seconds later. They did a toast and talked about what each piece of silverware was used for and made sure to use the correct one. They wanted to be so grown up, but were still so young at the same time. It was fun to ease drop from the other room on their conversation.
Is your chef/husband usually able to be at birthday parties? Does he cook the food and make the cake, or do you take care of that?
From one chef wife to another,
