Have you ever thought about the importance of food and your marriage? After all, it’s something we need to have every day to survive. That means time spent preparing it and eating it and hopefully ensuring that you eat together as a family. Sharing a meal together can be an important time of catching up on what everyone’s been doing during the day, at work, at home and at school.
Food brings people together. Food is an icebreaker for conversations. One of the best thing s we can do is invite others into our homes to share a meal. To go out with another couple to a restaurant is impersonal but to invite them into your home for a meal is to open up and share a part of your lives with them.
We regularly invite people home for a meal, sometimes as a way of getting to know another couple better, sometimes simply to spend time with treasured friends. It doesn’t have to be a stressful situation. It’s only that way if you make it so. The best idea is to keep it simple. That’s easier on you and your spouse.
I’m not one for elaborate or complicated recipes. The simpler the better, as far as I’m concerned. For example, we had friends over for dinner recently. The menu was my variation of Middle Eastern Chicken cooked in the barbecue, Middle Eastern Rice and a tossed salad. You will find both these recipes in the Food Blog
Dessert was fruit salad taking advantage of peaches, nectarines and strawberries in season to which a few other frozen berries had been added and all mixed with a small amount of sherry.
We had a meal and then simply relaxed and talked. Other times we might play cards, 500 or Hearts, or play a board game. Keeping the menu simple meant a relaxing evening for me and Mick which means we are more likely to repeat the process.
When you open up your home and invite people in for a meal you are also revealing something of yourselves and your marriage.
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