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Here’s an example of culinary craziness: invite two friends to dinner on short notice, and then when you learn that two other friends will be in town the same night, invite them too. And then make a fancy dinner comprised of recipes that you’ve never tried before, e.g., instead of making mashed potatoes, make mashed peas-mint-potatoes, which sounds unusual and certainly is if for no other reason than the bright green color. And instead of making fish, make three kinds of fish all wrapped up together like a turducken.

[Aaron recognized the recipe — Fish Roll with Compound Butter]

And then go with the two last-minute friends on an hour’s walk through Golden Gate Park, and then meet the other friends at a margarita place for an hour, and still manage to put on a 3-star, 4-course meal when you eventually arrive home.

Did I mention the three desserts? Or five, really: hazelnut shortbread, chocolate chip cookies, french vanilla ice cream with raspberries, and (for the guy who doesn’t eat dairy (i.e., me)) lemon sorbet. And here I was thinking my scale might be broken. Sigh.

In case I haven’t been clear: I wasn’t the host. I might have attempted this menu, but I would not have attempted to leave the house for two hours in the middle of the prep. I respect and admire the “dinner will be served if and when we finish preparing it” attitude, but I can’t muster it at my own parties.