Dinner with a Prophet

[Bernard Gui]

If you could ask one Prophet of the Restoration to your home for dinner, which one would you invite? Why would you invite him? What would you like to talk about? What would you prepare for dinner?

Edited September 2, 2022 by Bernard Gui

[Rain]

Joseph Smith.  I really struggle with my testimony of him so I would like to see how I feel with him in person. I would talk to him about the first vision, the church, polygamy and women in the church.  

I wouldn't prepare anything.  I would have my husband do it.  I'm a good cook, but since moving to AZ I completely mess up dinner if anyone outside of my family, but refugees will be eating it.  I don't know why, but I have a string of failures as my experience.  The last time I had to throw away dinner for a family of 8 just before I needed to take it to them and had to buy restaurant food to replace it. 

What would my husband make? Whatever he was in the mood for, but it would include some kind of homemade bread.

Edited September 2, 2022 by Rain

[MustardSeed]

Anyone but BY.  Probably the present one, and I’d ask about his marriages.  
 

Id make salmon with my smoker and roasted veggies.  All heart healthy. 

[Calm]

Joseph Smith, he is the most interesting one for me, but also the one I know best.  And I want to hear about his visions of heaven.

I would ask him his favorite take out and if he was clueless, get either Asian or pizza with root beer floats.  Gone are the days I can cook and socialize in the same evening.

Unless my daughter in law decides she wants to do us proud…then maybe shrimp scampi with my son’s homemade rolls and a fun fruit drink, maybe crepes for dessert.  Or Ginger Beef, the thing I miss most about Canada after the scenery and the weather…and the people.   

Though I could make my family famous waffles.  Waffles are an important part of our family heritage as everyone in creation loved my grandma’s waffles.  I got her recipe but it never tasted the same, I am guessing she wasn’t so precise and added more butter and buttermilk than the recipe called for, they were so tender.  Anyway, I devoted the first 15 years of my marriage searching for the perfect waffle recipe, found it using heavy cream in a French recipe book (I bought massive cookbooks just for their slightly different waffle recipe) and then experimented with healthier versions and ended up just using the standard Betty Crocker waffle recipe like grandma used to use, but using whole milk, butter, and adding a cup of whole milk plain yogurt to a double batch.  For the last couple of years, when we want extra lightness and more protein, I substitute 1/4 to 1/2 almond flour.

My waffles are good enough for a prophet and I can make up a triple batch ahead of time ready to be cooked, so can be plenty rested.  My husband no doubt would make scrambled eggs and bacon to go with it.  We would get the fresh squeezed OJ to go along with milk and of course pure Canadian Maple Syrup warmed in the microwave with more softened butter to spread over them if desired.  Nutella for those with chocolate addiction.  The canned whipping cream that squirts out in mounds just for the fun of it…that never has enough depth of flavour to do my waffles real justice though, but the grandkids love it.  Custard pudding with raspberries in a sugar syrup smothering the waffles otoh…..

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by Calm

[jkwilliams]

56 minutes ago, Calm said:

Joseph Smith, he is the most interesting one for me, but also the one I know best.  And I want to hear about his visions of heaven.

I would ask him his favorite take out and if he was clueless, get either Asian or pizza with root beer floats.  Gone are the days I can cook and socialize in the same evening.

Unless my daughter in law decides she wants to do us proud…then maybe shrimp scampi with my son’s homemade rolls and a fun fruit drink, maybe crepes for dessert.  Or Ginger Beef, the thing I miss most about Canada after the scenery and the weather…and the people.   

Though I could make my family famous waffles.  Waffles are an important part of our family heritage as everyone in creation loved my grandma’s waffles.  I got her recipe but it never tasted the same, I am guessing she wasn’t so precise and added more butter and buttermilk than the recipe called for, they were so tender.  Anyway, I devoted the first 15 years of my marriage searching for the perfect waffle recipe, found it using heavy cream in a French recipe book (I bought massive cookbooks just for their slightly different waffle recipe) and then experimented with healthier versions and ended up just using the standard Betty Crocker waffle recipe like grandma used to use, but using whole milk, butter, and adding a cup of whole milk plain yogurt to a double batch.  For the last couple of years, when we want extra lightness and more protein, I substitute 1/4 to 1/2 almond flour.

My waffles are good enough for a prophet and I can make up a triple batch ahead of time ready to be cooked, so can be plenty rested.  My husband no doubt would make scrambled eggs and bacon to go with it.  We would get the fresh squeezed OJ to go along with milk and of course pure Canadian Maple Syrup warmed in the microwave with more softened butter to spread over them if desired.  Nutella for those with chocolate addiction.  The canned whipping cream that squirts out in mounds just for the fun of it…that never has enough depth of flavour to do my waffles real justice though, but the grandkids love it.  Custard pudding with raspberries in a sugar syrup smothering the waffles otoh…..

 

I'd definitely have Joseph Smith over for dinner, but for very different reasons. 

[Tacenda]

Joseph and Emma for sure. 

[Bernard Gui]

2 hours ago, Calm said:

Joseph Smith, he is the most interesting one for me, but also the one I know best.  And I want to hear about his visions of heaven.

I would ask him his favorite take out and if he was clueless, get either Asian or pizza with root beer floats.  Gone are the days I can cook and socialize in the same evening.

Unless my daughter in law decides she wants to do us proud…then maybe shrimp scampi with my son’s homemade rolls and a fun fruit drink, maybe crepes for dessert.  Or Ginger Beef, the thing I miss most about Canada after the scenery and the weather…and the people.   

Though I could make my family famous waffles.  Waffles are an important part of our family heritage as everyone in creation loved my grandma’s waffles.  I got her recipe but it never tasted the same, I am guessing she wasn’t so precise and added more butter and buttermilk than the recipe called for, they were so tender.  Anyway, I devoted the first 15 years of my marriage searching for the perfect waffle recipe, found it using heavy cream in a French recipe book (I bought massive cookbooks just for their slightly different waffle recipe) and then experimented with healthier versions and ended up just using the standard Betty Crocker waffle recipe like grandma used to use, but using whole milk, butter, and adding a cup of whole milk plain yogurt to a double batch.  For the last couple of years, when we want extra lightness and more protein, I substitute 1/4 to 1/2 almond flour.

My waffles are good enough for a prophet and I can make up a triple batch ahead of time ready to be cooked, so can be plenty rested.  My husband no doubt would make scrambled eggs and bacon to go with it.  We would get the fresh squeezed OJ to go along with milk and of course pure Canadian Maple Syrup warmed in the microwave with more softened butter to spread over them if desired.  Nutella for those with chocolate addiction.  The canned whipping cream that squirts out in mounds just for the fun of it…that never has enough depth of flavour to do my waffles real justice though, but the grandkids love it.  Custard pudding with raspberries in a sugar syrup smothering the waffles otoh…..

 

Yum! Can I come, too?

[Calm]

Sure, it’s a triple batch…

[Jerry Atric]

Joseph Smith. But I would make sure my dinner with Joseph would be set up on ladies night, that way my wife wouldn't be at the house while Joseph and I are discussing churchy stuff. 

[Calm]

27 minutes ago, Jerry Atric said:

Joseph Smith. But I would make sure my dinner with Joseph would be set up on ladies night, that way my wife wouldn't be at the house while Joseph and I are discussing churchy stuff. 

Why not?

[Jerry Atric]

1 hour ago, Calm said:

Why not?

Why not what?

[InCognitus]

Definitely Joseph Smith.  

I'd try to fix something for dinner that includes corn-dodgers and pumpkins just to help understand the analogy of getting his teachings into my head.

Edited September 2, 2022 by InCognitus

[blackstrap]

David O  as he was the prophet of my youth. I would hope for a pleasant dinner conversation about how things are going without a third degree interrogation .

I would prepare meat and potatoes. 

[Duncan]

I would like to have dinner with Pres. Lorenzo Snow. I would like to know more about that theophany he had or it was claimed he had when Pres. Woodruff died. I would have little caeser's pizza or dominoes pizza-everybody loves pizza!

[Metis_LDS]

I would invite whoever will be the President of the Church when Christ returns to the earth.  We would have traditional Quebec meat pies followed by hot Maple syrup taffy serve on snow.

[CA Steve]

Like others, Joseph Smith is the obvious choice, though a dinner would hardly suffice for the number of questions I would want to ask. As far as dinner goes, ribeye steak, Ceasar salad and asparagus followed by milkshakes for dessert. If I had to limit my questions to a single area, I would love to show him a copy of the KEP and Egyptian artifacts and have him explain what he was doing.

My second choice for such an encounter would be a bit larger group gathered for the same meal, sort of a round table discussion. Same meal because how can you beat a well-cooked ribeye?

Participants at the round table would be the prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, Bruce R. McConkie, James Talmadge and B.H. Roberts. And the topic of discussion would be; 'Is evolution from Satan or is man really a monkey's uncle?"

[CA Steve]

14 minutes ago, Jim Dandy said:

a heck of a lot better than Little Seizures or Dominoes pizzas.

That there is funny!

[blackstrap]

Although not a prophet, it would be fun to sit around a campfire and listen to Orrin Porter Rockwell tell stories of his life . Maybe go to the shooting range the next day . 

[Calm]

1 hour ago, CA Steve said:

That there is funny!

They had a box of Little Seizures (replaced just Caesars) taped on the wall of the room my daughter had her electro convulsive therapy sessions in.  That got me laughing as it was the first time I heard that joke.  They were quite casual, laidback there. It worked well given the circumstances.  I wonder if I still have a picture of it. 

[Rain]

7 hours ago, blackstrap said:

David O  as he was the prophet of my youth. I would hope for a pleasant dinner conversation about how things are going without a third degree interrogation .

I would prepare meat and potatoes. 

I'm curious why you said "third degree interrogation". I would want to have pleasant conversation as well even though we would be talking about serious subjects.

[mfbukowski]

21 hours ago, Bernard Gui said:

If you could ask one Prophet of the Restoration to your home for dinner, which one would you invite? Why would you invite him? What would you like to talk about? What would you prepare for dinner?

SP's get to do that, but they don't get to pick.  😱

[mfbukowski]

20 hours ago, MustardSeed said:

Anyone but BY.  Probably the present one, and I’d ask about his marriages.  
 

Id make salmon with my smoker and roasted veggies.  All heart healthy. 

Isn't smoking salmon against the WOW?

I never know if I should light the head or tail first

[rpn]

BY, I'd ask all about the black issue and serve him dinner rolls from the Lion House recipe.

[JLHPROF]

Joseph Smith would be the first and obvious choice.

Second would be either John Taylor - I'd want to know how things really were during the underground years; or Joseph F. Smith - I'd love to know what the prophet really thought about all the post manifesto/Mexico/Canada doublespeak on plural marriage.

And I serve them something either exotic or modern that they wouldn't have had the privilege to enjoy in their lifetimes.

[blackstrap]

2 hours ago, Rain said:

I'm curious why you said "third degree interrogation".

Several posters on this thread have indicated why they wanted a particular prophet at dinner  , to ask a lot of " why " questions.