Have you ever thrown a dinner party for people with pretty specific dietary restrictions?

No, I don't have such friends. I have a limit on them for my friend group.

Literally friendships made or broken depending on what people eat.

Yeah, you're vegan. Get out of here.

Anyway, continue. No.

No, that actually doesn't surprise me from you.

You're listening to Dinner SOS, a new show from Bon Appetite where we help our listeners

solve their dinner emergencies. I'm Chris Morocco, Food Director of Bon Appetite and Epicurious.

Here's how the show works. Each week, one listener brings us a dinner problem.

And I'll work with one of our editors or someone from our amazing test kitchen to try and solve it.

No problem is too big or too small.

And this week, listener Neha called in asking for some help, creating a menu with some pretty strict parameters.

So my colleague Shilboot's Gokavic and I are going to help her.

We'll each give Neha a recipe, but she can only choose one.

And it's not like it's a competition.

But I think the important thing to explore here is like two different solutions to the same problem.

Two solutions, but our caller only needs one.

That's this week on Dinner SOS.

First up, we hear from Neha.

So talk to me about what is going on with dinner.

So I have a huge dinner party conundrum that I just like, I can't wrap my head around.

I have a dinner party coming up on Friday, so in a few days, there will be six of us,

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