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Now, if your idea of effortless entertaining is to take your friends to a restaurant, preferably within a short walking distance are you wondering how are you’re going to cope at Christmas when family and friends descend en masse, expecting to be royally entertained, housed, fed and watered for the duration?
Imagine you have been planning the dinner party for weeks now, it’s a few hours before the guests arrive, the starters are prepped, the wine chilled and the table laid when you get that dreaded phone call, “Hi, did I tell you that my guest doesn’t eat fish or maybe it’s onions or mushrooms and it always turns out to be a major ingredient in the culinary feats that you have sweated blood and tears over all day.