First meal?

kaesha

We got our wedding china, crystal and kitchen based fun last week, and I cooked an insane meal over the weekend...

So, I was wondering, what was the first meal you cooked on your new stuff?

chikarakobu

I think we had roast chicken and veggies on our fancy China (we only got 2 sets) with a green salad with shaved pecorino and papaya seed dressing (yes, from HI!)  Anytime we make something fancy, we break out those 2 sets and drink from our crystal glasses.

What did your "insane meal" consist of? 

lisakeiko

Is it bad that I don't remember? =P I've been seeing your delicious fb updates and I'm sure that if our first meal on our new stuff had been even half as fabulous as your regular meals, maybe I would have remembered. I just remember LOVING our new flatware and thinking that it was one of the best wedding gifts we received.

redshoegirl

I'm like Lisak - I don't remember either! Probably Mexican food, maybe burritos? We're big fans.

mrspresley

we have yet to use our fine China - in fact, this Thanksgiving will be the first time we break it out! we've always spent the holidays elsewhere so we never had the opportunity to use it

we are now just getting around to looking for a set of "everyday" dinnerware....we've been using old stuff we both already had since we got married (the stuff we both used in college )

lelekay

mrspresley:

we have yet to use our fine China - in fact, this Thanksgiving will be the first time we break it out! 

Ditto this!  I can't wait to use it! 

Hawaiian Honey

Can I just say that I freakin' love that you had burritos on your china Lisa! That is awesome!

Amy4773

Meh, we don't own China.  I didn't see the need.

However, we did get our everyday dishes for our wedding, so I use them all the time!   

peachmango

We didn't get fancy china but we did get a nice set of dinner stuff from crate and barrel.  We use pieces from it regularly.  We've had a couple of dinner parties where we actually use the entire set.  Our dinner parties are usually potluck.  Pedro and I pretty much always make foie gras.. i love that stuff

kaesha

I went to the local farmer's market and bought local unpasteurized sheep's cheese - made some homemade crackers and marinated olives to go with it. Then I braised some lamb shanks in red wine (love the le crueset dutch oven) and did a traditional English Apple Cake with homemade pouring custard for dessert.

Served with wine and champagne because I wanted to break in both sets of glasses!

M&M's_Maui

kaesha:

I went to the local farmer's market and bought local unpasteurized sheep's cheese - made some homemade crackers and marinated olives to go with it. Then I braised some lamb shanks in red wine (love the le crueset dutch oven) and did a traditional English Apple Cake with homemade pouring custard for dessert.

Served with wine and champagne because I wanted to break in both sets of glasses!

 

Yum!

 

We have yet to use ours....

redshoegirl

Hawaiian Honey:

Can I just say that I freakin' love that you had burritos on your china Lisa! That is awesome!

Heh, well it's not fine china, just everyday wear. We'd have used our expensive pans to cook it in though lol. 

MrsNJSwimmer

I think that was the year we hosted Thanksgiving.  Haven't used most of it since! LOL

lelekay

kaesha:

Then I braised some lamb shanks in red wine (love the le crueset dutch oven) and did a traditional English Apple Cake with homemade pouring custard for dessert.

 

LOVE my big Le Creuset!  It's probably the one thing from my wedding that I use the most.

kaesha

Le Creuset is SO good. amazing - I really want one of their enamelled frying pans now too - do you think it would work as well as a regular cast iron fry pan?

adpilove

So how bad am I........we've never even taken the China out of the boxes.  Nope, never.  Heck, they could be broken for all I know!  We only got 3 as gifts, so I see no sense in opening them right now.  But I do use our everyday wear from Crate n Barrel and love it so!!  We've made it a point to buy a set every year for our anniversary until we get to 12! 

cecig

Last Thanksgiving was the first time we used ours, yep, it only took us 3 years!

SanHawaii08

adpilove:

We've made it a point to buy a set every year for our anniversary until we get to 12! 

ooh, great idea!  we have sets of 8, but i would love to get 12...maybe i should start this next year...

we've been mostly using our old stuff too, sigh, though we'll sometimes break out the "everyday" stuff (which admittedly, was in the fine china section ).  the fancy stuff is all sitting in boxes.  but we haven't been married for 4 years yet

i have absolutely no clue what we ate on the everyday stuff for the first time.  but alyson, your cooking sounds fabulous!!

kaesha

Thanks Sandra! I'm totally not a pro by any stretch of the imagination. I'd say I'm an enthusiastic, competent amateur.