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  • Best Grill Tools featured image with spatula and fork on grill grates
    Blog

    The Best Grill Tools You Must-Have for Your Next BBQ

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    Here are some of the best grill tools you need. Whether you are a serial griller or fall into the category of occasional grillers, these grill accessories can help you up your barbecue game in countless ways. Some of the easiest food you can cook is on the grill. Who doesn’t love a hamburger, ribs, or hot with great smokey flavor? It is a staple of food cooking all summer long. But having the right tools is essential to producing quality dishes. No matter what your grill master level is we’ve got some of the best products for you to try in this roundup of the best grilling tools. This…

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    Amazon Prime Day is almost here and you can grab the best Amazon Prime Day Deals over the two-day event. There’s truly no better time to stock up on all things kitchen and home entertaining. This post may contain affiliate links for products LSG loves. Lone Star Gatherings earns a small commission on these links at no additional cost to you. Please read my DISCLOSURE POLICY for more info. Prime Day is the retailer’s biggest sale of the year, and it promises all-time low prices across all of its product categories, including appliances, tableware, home goods, smart tech, gardening tools and outdoor products, back-to-school, and office products, and loads more.…

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    Brilliant Ideas For Dinner Party Success In Four Easy Steps

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    Finding ideas for dinner party planning can be incredibly overwhelming, but here we have four easy steps to keep everything organized for your next gathering. I bet I know what you are thinking. “I want to have friends over, but I don’t want to spend all day cleaning!” I am with you on that! However, I have a resource at the bottom of this post that is going to relieve your stress and dramatically reduce your cleaning time. Honest! I use it every time I have a gathering of friends and family. Dinner Party Planning Origins When I was a kid my Mom would plan and throw these amazing dinner…

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    How Clean Can a Burnt Pot Be? Like New!

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    How clean a burnt pot can be using this trick! It’s like magic! Have you ever burnt a pot or pan on the stove? If so, then you know how frustrating it can be to try and clean it. The blackened food seems to stick to the pot no matter what you do, and it often leaves behind a charred mess of tiny bits. But don’t worry, we have a trick for you that will make this process much easier! Accidents and Burnt Pots Happen I was creating a concoction of water and sugar for my hummingbird feeder. It’s a simple combination of 1 part sugar to four parts water…

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    These 8 Cozy Christmas Stocking Inspired Cocktails will spice up your holidays and keep you warm all winter long! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Kwanzaa  – may your celebration this season be blessed! For those that celebrate Christmas, do you remember waking up on Christmas morning so excited to tear into those beautifully wrapped packages under the tree?  I would race downstairs and gawk at the Christmas tree with great anticipation of the fun and merriment that was about to take place.  I got a little carried away last year and was fully awake at 4 AM. Hey, still a kid at heart. Even if I have a pretty…

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  • Understand Wine and Food Pairing: How to Actually Savor your Amazing Adventure
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    Understand Wine and Food Pairing: How to Savor your Amazing Adventure

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    Wine and food are meant to be together! But at home, or even in a restaurant, creating a good wine and food pairing is a challenge. Do you understand wine and food pairing? You may be surprised where your adventure of wine and food pairing takes you.

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    New Year’s Resolution: A Cooking Challenge

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    Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Did you think about a New Year’s resolution for a cooking challenge? Maybe you picked some of the standard resolutions like improving your health, weight loss, time for yourself, or self-improvement. Maybe you have a New Year’s resolution to connect more deeply with friends, family, or a significant other? A resolution involving cooking is a great way to start the New Year and meet your goals for better health, weight loss, self-improvement, and connection! And, it might even be a resolution that you can keep! Every year we start over. The calendar starts over. Our dreams get rebooted. Our desires are re-ignited. The…

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    How are you going to celebrate the 4th of July? Fireworks, parade watching, grilling or gathering with friends are all great ideas!

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  • What to cook Father's Day
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    What to cook for Father’s Day

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    Father’s Day is upon us!  It brings up pictures of dads standing by grills with an ice cold beer and big grin on their faces.  The kids are usually more excited about giving gifts on Father’s Day than the dads who are receiving them. You can go all out with gifts, but you still need to figure out what to cook for Father’s Day. Mother’s Day gifts are pretty easy — a nice piece of jewelry or perfume and flowers.  Purchasing a “Needed” item is something done at your own risk.  But dads are a bit tougher to buy for because the standard sentimental gifts don’t usually apply.  Every year…

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    Memorial Day means grilling!  Get your grill on by having a Memorial Day Great Steak cookout!  Sure you could cook burgers, but this year we can up our game.  So let’s take our hats off to Memorial Day with a Great Steak cookout and share good stories and laughter while gathered around the table.  Some of the best memories are made while sharing a good meal at home. History of Memorial Day Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May.  It became a federal holiday in 1971, but the tradition of honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military goes…

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    The Raw Truth: Planning a Dinner Party

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    The Raw Truth about planning a dinner party is that things can, and probably will, go wrong. Raw!  The truth of the matter is it was raw in the middle!  There I was in the kitchen with my partially cooked lamb and a crowd of 8 waiting for the main course.  How did this happen?  I practiced the menu – cooked it all not one week ago and it came together just fine!  I felt like a failure and now one in a panic.  What had gone wrong? Here comes the Club. When it comes to our Gourmet Club Gatherings, I can research, plan and carefully prepare, but I know…

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    Post-Coronavirus Gathering – Cook at home with friends

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The Hostess of Lone Star Gatherings

Howdy!  I’m your host, Rani.  As a WSET certified wine lover and cooking enthusiast, I love to entertain at home. With 25 years of experience cooking, entertaining, and pairing wine, let me guide you through stress-free gatherings with amazing food, wine, and cocktails! Grab a drink and join the party!

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