That sounds amazing. Wow wish I could be this good. I so suck at being a good housewife. I swear, if there were grades for this, I would get an -F!

We love entertaining too, and do so fairly often. It's just that the process you described above, well my husband does all that. R has this huge cookbook collection, from which he picks stuff out depending on the theme. He really enjoys the process down to the plating of food and the presentation. *shrugs* My husband cooks to relax. Do you think I'm complaining here?