Our First ...Dinner Guests

Yesterday I spent the day preparing for our first dinner guests... Kamila Komarnicka and Alex Modzelewska. They are two young single girls who attend church with us and are my Visiting Teachers!

They are delightful young ladies and they speak English too!

They arrived a little after 6pm while a summer storm was coming down. Mark had arrived home a few minutes earlier and went out to meet the girls and escort them down to our street and home. Here we are just prior to beginning our meal.

Here is our oven...it is small, electric and more like a computer! I usually select "conventional cooking" and plug in the nearest equivalent C. temp. I'm baking cookies in this oven...and the closet temp. to 375 F. is 190 C. It's not exact but close.

My "first" cookie made in Poland!

I felt like a scientist...trying to determine if the temp., time in the oven, or ingredients were just right. They ended up being fine...still need to work on the timing though...they don't taste like they do in Texas...but with practice I'm sure they will get better.

I made home made chicken pot pie as in the picture taken prior to being baked. I wasn't sure how this would turn out either....

We had success! Home made chicken pot pie, tossed green salad, wheat rolls (not home made :)) and chocolate chip cookies with Polish ice cream for dessert! Yum!

The food was good and the girls enjoyed it. My favorite part of the evening though was having people here in our home with us. The girls stayed about 3 hours and had a long journey home. They each traveled 45-50 min. in order to get to our home...we were grateful!

We are constantly learning our cultures may be different but we are so much more alike than we are different! We had good food, great conversations and wonderful company!