Birthday Brunch Backup
My good friend had her birthday a couple of weeks ago, but she has been out of town ever since. She finally came home this weekend, and I wanted to throw her a nice birthday brunch with a few of our closest friends. But i needed a little help from ChatGPT.
First, a menu
I prompted ChatGPT:
“I am trying to plan a breakfast brunch party for 5 friends. The meal will be seafood- themed, and I want the party to be relatively fancy. I am a good cook. What are some ideas that you can recommend?”
It replied with a great list of options: 
I didn’t love the appetizers that it recommended, so I followed up with another request:
These are great ideas! Can you provide some additional dessert options?
It replied:
These were great options, but I had a specific idea that I wanted to consider. In the fall, the birthday girl and I went to the Le Creuset factory sale, and we bought some mini Dutch ovens together. I thought it would be cute for us to make some desserts in them.
I asked ChatGPT:
I’m intrigued by the idea of mini dutch babies? Is that possible?
ChatGPT replied with a great recipe:
Perfect!!
Plating is everything
Now that I had my menu, I wanted to test ChatGPT’s image generation techniques:
I sent:
“Great! Ok here is the menu I am thinking: - Fresh oysters on the half - smoked salmon blinis - lobster benedict - mini dutch babies - mimosa bar
Can you provide images of sample plating options for ea”
ChatGPT replied with the following images:
These were so cute!! The aesthetic still seemed to embody a more fantastical aesthetic, but the images were beautiful. I followed up with:
Great - now, can you produce a flyer for the event?>
And it sent a few options:
As usual, the spelling on these was atrocious, but still they had a lovely aesthetic to them!
ch dish?
Ultimately, these seemed to be tasks at which ChatGPT was relatively proficient: creating menus, coming up with ideas, and generating ideas of realistic items that currently exist. Next time, I’ll definitely try to push it a bit harder!