My Ultimate Dinner Party + Finish Giveaway
My Ultimate Dinner Party + Finish Giveaway
What does your ultimate dinner party look like? What would you eat, where would you be, what music would be playing and who would you invite (dead or alive)?
I’ve thought a lot about this and one thing that I knew straight away is that I don’t care about celebrities and the number one person on my invite list would be my late dad. My ultimate dinner party would be at my mum’s house — my family home where I grew up — with my dad, all my sisters and their families. We wouldn’t need any music because the conversation and laughter would fill the room and since Japan is very special to my family we would be enjoying a lovely Japanese meal. Instead of cooking it ourselves like we usually do, we would have a Japanese chef there to prepare lots of our favourite dishes.
There would be wine too, of course! Or some bubbly, or both.
Doing dishes is not something we’d want to do on this special evening so we’d definitely be using the dishwasher and have some hired help to clean the kitchen for us as a treat. Using the dishwasher actually saves water, time and a lot of effort so it’s definitely worth it.
Finish have lots of brilliant products to help your dishes get sparkling clean and to keep your dishwasher in tip-top condition.
- Finish Quantum Max Shine and Protect cleans your dishes brilliantly, adds shine and also protects against glass corrosion. This can extend the life of your glasses by 100% and keeps them protected wash after wash. These dishwasher tablets have 12 special actions, including glass protection, silver protection and shine booster. The Powerball washes away any residue in even the hardest water conditions. The salt and rinse aid action eliminates spots and film for that perfect, sparkling shine. The tablets come in a re-sealable bag so there’s no need to unwrap every individual tablet. The fresh Apple & Lime scent is lovely, too!
- The Finish Dishwasher Cleaner takes care of your dishwasher because a dirty dishwasher will not give you the result you want. Grease and lime scale builds up on vital parts of the machine and that needs to be removed to ensure super clean dishes. That’s exactly what this product does and it leaves your machine clean and fresh!
- Finish Dishwashing Salt helps to soften your water to boost the cleaning performance of your detergent. This prevents spots and watermarks on your dishes. This salt is pure and ensures your dishwasher’s built-in water softening units work effectively.
- Finish Rinse Aid Shine & Protect has 5x Power Actions for shiner dishes that dry more quickly. It also helps protect glass! The 5 actions are: Rinses residue, Speeds up drying, Fights water spots, Film protection and Brilliant shine.
Thank you to Finish for ensuring our dishwasher works as well as it can and making sure we don’t need to worry about the dishes whether we’re hosting a dinner party or not. When our machine is working well, there’s no need for rewashing or hand drying everything before putting the dishes away.
Giveaway:
I’ve been given the opportunity to give a kit of Finish goodies to one of my readers. The kit includes one of each of the products in this post. To enter the giveaway, use the Rafflecopter below. Terms & Conditions apply. UK entrants only. The giveaway will end on the 4th of September 2015. We want to hear about your Ultimate Dinner Party!
We were sent the Finish products in the photos above to go with this post. As always, all my posts are 100% honest and all thoughts and opinions are my own.
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It would be at a local seaside, with my family & we would eat a roast chicken dinner
I’d invite my husband and we’d be in the garden on a warm summers evening. We’d have vegetarian lasagne, homemade garlic bread and salad, followed by anything chocolatey :)
Sounds perfect! :)
elvis Presley if I could invite,
My husband and daughter, seated next to Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, Michael Hutchence, George Clooney and Angelina Jolie in midsummer Italy, under the stars and lit by lanterns, feasting on lobster with garlic butter, to the soundtrack of waves lapping and cicadas singing…and of course, all washed down with fizz!
Would love to be in Mauritius with family and friends overlooking the beach and have Veal in creamy mushroom sauce with saute potatoes and garlic broccoli with Eton Mess or chocolate mousse for pudding.
ALL MY FAMILY
I would have my husband and kids and mum and dad. I would have a nice italian meal in the garden hopefully on a beautiful night!
Mine would be a table for two in a romantic location, with sensual food, and I would invite Kylie!
I would invite a few close friends, have the party in our house and just have a great time with simple, tasty food and wine and catching up
Mine would have Sir David Attenborough, the Duchess of Cambridge, Michael McIntyre & Meryl Streep, & we’d eat Heinz Tomato Soup with French bread, followed by Steak & Chips, followed by chocolate brownie & ice cream. We’d drink Orgasm cocktails & have Motown playing in the background :-)
It would be at my house – it would be me and my family, my mum and dad and both my sisters and their families (they both live abroad) for once I would look fabby – and have a great outfit AND great hair. we would be sat found an assortment of an official dining table, camping table and probably wall paper table and the seating arrangements would be fluid. We would eat a cold collation – ham, pickles and pork pies and TRIFLE and all the children would be lovely and not one of us sisters would have to leave the table early to tend to them!
My family on Sunday for a traditional roast, good times :)
I’d invite Stephen Fry. We’d all go on a private yacht eating sushi and I hear it’s brain food. Perhaps that means I could take in half of what Stephen was saying to me!
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My ultimate party would be a dim candle lit room with some sexy jazz music playing, garlic and coriander king prawns in butter for starter with crusty bread and the main would be an amazing lamb dish… dessert would be a sweet wine and the company of several dead rockstars!
Buffet of all my fav foods, on beach with everyone I love
it would have to include Karl Pilkington as he makes me laugh so much!
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william, kate, george & charlotte over for a big family roast, letting the kids run riot in the garden
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Would love to be with family and grandchildren in Nerja Spain having a great dinner party with tapas and lots of sunshine. Dishes in the dishwasher afterwards with finish, of course
Mine would be in the garden, with my family sat at a table, eating picnic food.
A bbq with lots of meat and seafood and family and friends, perfect!!
Mine would be Stephen fry he’s amazing xxx
There would be Ray Mears, David Attenborough Karen Sprott and myself and we would be by a lochan in the NW Highlands of Scotland – pre midges!
We would have fresh river trout with roasted vegetables. Followed by our camp fire favourite of warm rice pudding with ginger biscuits and dark chocolate melted in.
Mine would be with my and my husband with a nice homemade curry and a homemade cake for dessert!
garden bbq with friends and plenty of dishes
family, bbq, petting zoo …
All the doctor who doctors, lots of cheese and 90’s music!
my hubby and childen in the bahamas with lots of wine and juicy steaks
I would have dwayne the rock johnson, daniel craig, tom cruise and the man off springwatch, I forget his name! Anyway we would all be in a gothic like kind of old mansion with rachmaninov playing classical music and eating and drinking like in medieval times. :)
a few good friends, spag bol and bruno mars playing in the background
I would do a murder mystery night and have haunted music playing and send invites out inviting the guests to come as their characters and we will play it out to find the murderer!
Fun! :)
I would have it at home in my garden with a gazebo, lovely china and silver and it would be a lovely meal cooked by someone else (a real chef) with fine wine.
It would involve copious amount of wine and Stephen Fry to drink it with. Lots of funny friends, karaoke and steak cooked on a BBQ.
It would be with my family having a chinese meal with light music in the background
my mum who passed way would love to see her again
I’d invite my ancestors to find out more about them.
My family, chilled out and a chance to catch up!
I would invite Judi Dench, Julie Walters, Colin Firth and Richard Armitage so they can tell me all the funny stories about their life in movies. I would serve champagne and crudities followed by coq au vin with my own lemon meringue pie to finish
At the beach just before I meets the sea at dusk with my husband, swoons dreamy
I would love to have the whole family to dinner if my table was big enough!
On the beach, by the water, candlelight, some soft music, red wine, some BBQ fish, fresh salad, some samphire, crusty bread, good company and a beautiful sunset.
All the family :)