I find that too many last minute roles can overwhelm me, so I plan in advance to dump as much as possible. The more dishes you can prepare a day or some hours before guests ring your doorbell, the more that you cut back your stress.
If you like to cook, you could have the leisure to enjoy what you are doing rather than feeling wild about a cut off point.
If there's a disaster, say you burn something, you have lots of time to come up with an alternative plan. What's your level of toleration for last minute jobs? Some of the recipes I depend on are make-ahead, and some are just items that I can bring back home from the store and put out in nice serving dishes.
If you can add potatoes and plants to the roast although it cooks you have almost all the advantages of make-ahead. When you pop them in the cooker beside the roast you can pretty well ignore them till they are cooked. Possibly the most signifi! cant class for me is appetisers.
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