InaPickle getting out of a pickle!

InaPickle

I've had a busy few days, Reddie!

I was arranging to meet a friend of coffee and it ended up her and her boyfriend coming round for dinner on Friday night. I was working Thursday and Friday, so I spent every available minute around it tidying the house, planning the meal, shopping and cooking. Work has been seriously hectic as well, so I was completely cream crackered by the time they came round on Friday night.

I was quite proud though, as out of nowhere I planned a menu of salmon fishcakes on a bed of rocket with aiolil, breast of chicken filled with spinach and ricotta wrapped in Parma ham with garlic & parsley potatoes and asparagus followed by home-made dark chocolate and orange mousse. I even got up really early and made the mousse on Friday morning so that it had time to set. On the night I cooked the fishcakes and prepared the chicken at the same time, and was just about to pop the chicken in the pan and then the oven when the fishcakes came out, and my guests looked a bit worried that they might go cold and suggested that we ate them straight away, so we went into the dining room to eat them. They were scrummy, and once we had finished I came out to clear the plates and put the chicken on, only to notice that instead of four breasts of chicken, there was only one left.

Puzzled, I called into the dining room and asked Friend and Boyfriend of Friend (also a friend) if they had done anything with the chicken breasts (Boyfriend of Friend had been a very hands-on guest getting pre-drink beers from the fridge and taking the odd peek at the fishcakes in the oven, so it wasn't inconceivable that he had put them in a baking tray or something).

Friend and Boyfriend of Friend shouted back that they didn't know where they had gone.

In the instant that it took for them to relpy, I came to the horrific blinding realisation that THE DOG HAD EATEN THEM! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Pickle could have wept. Her lovely dinner party, ruined!

But Pickle's not stupid, so we went down to the (admittedly rather good) local chippy, ate our takeaway over Pickle's curses and everyone's laughs, and then ate the mousse for desert.

Pickle could still half-kill Pickledog, though!

taxi73

Your dog has been taking lessons from my Tess over the phone...lol

InaPickle

taxi73 wrote: »

Your dog has been taking lessons from my Tess over the phone...lol

If there's some sort of doggie phone/web, quite frankly us owners ought to have been warned!

And I wouldn't mind half as much but she had already had her dinner (big tin of dog food), followed by a chew and still managed to find room to eat THREE WHOLE STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS! :eek: I couldn't even eat all of that!

Funnily enough, she hasn't touched her dinner tonight...:rotfl:

taxi73

that's dogs for you but we soon forgive them

InaPickle

taxi73 wrote: »

that's dogs for you but we soon forgive them

Mine's avoided me for the best part of 24 hours, but I dug some more chicken out of the freezer in a bid to eat tonight what I was denied last night and she has just been snuggling right up to my face in a bid to smell it again. Bad dog! :rotfl:

Radish72

That made me laugh about your dog eating the chicken, what a great excuse for not feeding your friends :rotfl:

My Aunty's dog used to open the fridge and eat my the food out of it. She always had a shiny coat from eating all the butter. But never touched red peppers for some reason

InaPickle

Radish72 wrote: »

That made me laugh about your dog eating the chicken, what a great excuse for not feeding your friends

My Aunty's dog used to open the fridge and eat my the food out of it. She always had a shiny coat from eating all the butter. But never touched red peppers for some reason

I was gutted - including the wine etc. I spent a fortune on last night!

But OMG at your aunt's dog - that's even worse - nothing would ever be safe (unless you laced it with red pepper! :rotfl:)

REDMADCURLS

LMAO Hillarious!

Poor you being all 'come dine with me' and the perfect hostess!

And the doggie had the best dinner of her life - LOL

Better that it was friends and not some man you were trying to impress or such like!

I love your dog - it's a rascal!

InaPickle

REDMADCURLS wrote: »

And the doggie had the best dinner of her life - LOL

She wasn't hungry when I left her tin of food in her dish last night. Funny that...

REDMADCURLS wrote: »

Better that it was friends and not some man you were trying to impress or such like!

I love your dog - it's a rascal!

She's a very naughty doggie and has been told off severely. She looks very repentant. Until next time!

REDMADCURLS

Like men, dogs have very short memories!