Fuck Recipe's, We've Got Friends.

Last night was fun. There's nothing like a dinner party amongst a patch of young friends. It's the sort of scenario that helps you get to know people really fast, and in a comfy setting. There's just so much personality brought to the table. You find out what foods people love, and which ones make them sick to their stomach. You find out how some people cook their pasta and how others feel about the butt of the baguette. It's a learning experience to say the very least. So here are some quick lessons I learned at last night's supper:

1. Green Onions. Google that shit. Who knew they looked nothing like a regular onion?

2. When questioning quantities..cook ALL the chicken.

3. If you can't reach something from a high cabinet, do not try and defy your height. Ask someone who is taller to retrieve the item for you. This is how ceramic orange bowls break.

4. If your not one of the designated chefs, offer your help anyway. THEN when you get denied, pour yourself a glass of wine and dish out jokes instead.

5. People from the boonies were never taught to break their pasta in half before placing it into a pot of boiling water.

6. People from the boonies were never taught to take their pasta off the heat after about 7-10 minutes.

7. People from the boonies probably shouldn't cook pasta. Ricky Martin is the world's one exception (both the Latin pop star and the Adelphi dancer).

8. When everyone else is drinking wine out of wine glasses, you shouldn't be deprived a fancy glass just because your not drinking wine. Whether it be vitamin water, fanta, or pepsie, feel free to grab stem and class up your beverage too.

9. Dinner parties bring out the truth of all man. Notice at a restaurant people often act too full for dessert. But at a dinner party (when cost is out of question) everyone seems to have room for the sweet stuff.

10. When giving someone the option of a canoli, or a canoli dipped in chocolate, it's pretty much the same difference as winning a scratch off ticket or winning the mega-million. No brainer which one you'll cash in on.

11. When washing dishes, be happy when you get the easiest job of the lot- "putting things away." It doesn't require arm power or wrinkly fingers. If you don't know where something goes, just put it anywhere. And when you notice the host rearranging the cabinet space you ruined, look away.

12. Say thank you. Give hugs. Realize you're in good company.