Good Food and Drink Ideas

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The Dinner Party on a Budget
How To Be Ready For Drop-In Entertaining
How to Have a Successful Pot-Luck Dinner
Christmas Baking With Kids
How to Turn Any Dish Into a Diet Friendly Dish
What Makes A Great Gourmet Coffee?
Make Any Drink More Festive
Ideal Cocktails For Brunch
Making a Kid Friendly Dinner Party

How To Be Ready For Drop-In Entertaining

Even the most gracious host can become frazzled and stressed out when things get hectic and fast paced, especially when she is on her own with the hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and the planning. Imagine how she’d be when there is last minute extra guests or out of town friends stop by because they were “in the neighborhood”!  
Despite how much effort you think it takes to put together a planned party or how stressed out you think you’d be if you tried, it’s always so much simpler if you keep a few items on hand and always remember that if you want to entertain then almost anything is fixable.

You can get a decent bottle of red wine almost anywhere and they keep well in the bottom of the pantry. And since red wine is best served room temperature then this would be your best option for those drop-ins. Another option when it comes to drinks is to have a bottle of cocktail mix ready in the fridge, and as long as it hasn’t been opened then they keep a long time, and it will be ready and chilled, so even if your liquor is not,  the temperature will still be nice and cold thanks to the mix. One other thing to keep in mind is if you think there will be kids. Older ones like teens may like a sparkling grape juice, or soda, and younger ones will be just as content with a juice box. These things are easy to keep on hand and are usually in your pantry anyway if you have kids yourself.     

As for hors d’oeuvres they can be as simple or as complicated as you’d like, keeping in mind that guests who will be staying just a minute may need something quicker than those who are staying a few hours. Keeping some cream cheese and some crushed red peppers on hand is a real quick way to have a cheese ball along with some crackers, just use wax paper to roll the cream cheese into a ball then coat in the crushed pepper and serve on a plate with crackers and you have an instant dish in less than five minutes. For something a little more extravagant you could keep a box of frozen stuffed mushrooms or spinach pastries in the freezer and pop them in when you fix the drinks.

How to Have a Successful Pot-Luck Dinner

One of the most common types of dinner parties now is the pot-luck dinner. Most of the time these are very easy to plan and usually go off without a hitch, but there is always room for error with guest serviced parties. One person might show up with a meat dish to a vegan pot luck or someone won’t show up with anything, or even worse, the person who is supposed to bring a main dish shows up with a bag of fast food cheese burgers. Now a lot of people will just go with the flow and try to fix it their selves, but as we all know this will just make a stressed host and a party that seemed useless.  

Most of these problems won’t mean much or bother too many people if it was for a children’s play date or something casual, but to a more sophisticated party, they can be disasters.

One of the easiest ways to head off any problems is to assign each guest a dish, you can do this in any extent you’d like really, just understand that some guests may balk at the idea of you telling them what to bring to a pot-luck so your best approach is to either ask and hope that they respect your wishes or call it something other than a pot-luck. One way to assign the guests a dish is to assign them a specific course, such as two people bring appetizers and three bring the main course and then two bring dessert.

Christmas Baking With Kids

Christmas is a magical time for people of all ages, especially so for children.  And what better way to get them to enjoy the holidays than by encouraging them to bake with you.  You don’t need to limit your baking to just cookies.  You can make cakes as well as edible gifts for family, friends, and teachers.   

How to Turn Any Dish Into a Diet Friendly Dish

A lot of people are concerned about eating healthier. And, a lot of people are put on stricter diets because of either a personal reason or as a medical reason such as high blood pressure or cholesterol. This is usually easy to follow if you’ve been doing it a while, but at the same time can get very boring and make you start wishing for your old favorite that’s now off limits.

The easiest way to handle the situation is to adapt your favorite foods so they can fit into your diet. Sometimes this is easier than others, but at the same time it’s almost always doable. It just depends on your diet and what you’re trying to convert to a diet friendly food.

What Makes A Great Gourmet Coffee?

Tasting coffee is as much a ritual for some as wine tasting is for others.  When a coffee connoisseur tries a new gourmet coffee they are just as focused as the wine aficionado.  So what makes a coffee a great gourmet cup of coffee?  Several things go into determining what good coffee is all about.
 
It all starts before you start to brew the coffee, with the way the coffee beans smell after you’ve ground them.  The first impression of the flavour comes to you as you inhale the aroma.  As the coffee is brewed, the fragrance will come out.  And finally there’s the taste as your tongue comes into contact with the coffee, releasing the coffee aroma within your mouth. Make Any Drink More Festive     

Most all holiday parties will have either an open bar or a self serve bar, whether it’s cocktails or just juices and soda. It’s always more fun for the holidays to make things more festive when it comes to drinks. Even if you just down play the decorations around the house, playing it up with the drinks is a fun and unexpected way to bring the cheer.

You can use any theme from Christmas to the 4th of July as a backdrop for your drink ideas. Just remember that some things will add flavors to the drink so make sure they are palatable to at least some of your guests. But at the same time, some don’t add any flavor at all so they would work for anyone.  

Ideal Cocktails For Brunch

What better way to enjoy a weekend morning than by serving brunch to your family and friends.  

And keep in mind that brunches are perfect for any occasion, such as Mother’s Day and Christmas, or no occasion at all.  The varieties of foods you can serve for brunch are endless, including egg dishes, decadent French toast, potato casserole, and berries with cream.  But what type of beverages are you going to serve your guests?

Of course no brunch would be complete without a great tasting coffee.  Why not spice that coffee up a bit by turning it into Irish coffee?  Just add a little whiskey, fresh whipped cream, and chocolate shavings on top and you have the perfect way to start off the morning.

Making a Kid Friendly Dinner Party     

Dinner parties are common all year long, whether it’s for a birthday or a congrats party, or any other reason even if you don’t have one. They are even more common when the holiday season hits. From thanksgiving, Christmas, or Hanukkah, and all the way through New Year’s, holiday parties seem to multiply out of thin air. One thing most will have in common is the adult theme, meaning usually no kids are allowed or at the very least they are advised against bringing them, mainly because even the older ones that are 12 and 13 will be bored and may cause interruptions.

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