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Here you will discover dinner party menus, planning assistance, techniques and Gourmet Club menus.
Make Your Special Mom a Beautiful Mother’s Day Brunch
Make a beautiful Mother’s Day Brunch for your special Mom! It’s not as hard as it seems. You know the dream idea of Mother’s Day. That day when all a Mom has to do is wake up to a beautiful day of being pampered and shown appreciation. No cooking, no dishes, no bickering kids, and a peaceful day of rest. Pure bliss. Or at least, that is what the Hallmark commercial version would have us believe. Reality can be a bit different. Moms are the hardest working humans on earth. Mom’s are on duty 24/7/365 — never getting a day off. They protect and care for us even before we…
How to Make an Elegant Menu for Mother’s Day Brunch Ideas
This menu is a bit more involved but so worth the effort for this beautiful, memorable brunch for Mom. P.S. If this helps you please share or forward it to friends! Cheers Y’all!
Happy Eggs Benedict – How to Make Hollandaise Sauce 5 Ways
Your key to happy Eggs Benedict is the Hollandaise sauce. It doesn’t matter if your yolks run beautifully, your English muffin is toasted perfectly, or your bacon is star-worthy crisp if you don’t make a great hollandaise sauce. Here are five ways to make delicious Hollandaise sauce for happy Eggs Benedict. Who invented Eggs Benedict? Hey, here’s one for you. What do a traitor, a guy with a hangover and a pope have in common? Eggs Benedict! Ba-dum-bum! The origin of Eggs Benedict is a bit muddy, but the name clearly matches that of a famous traitor. Benedict Arnold actually had a short, but successful career in the Continental Army…
Happy Eggs Benedict – The Poach
So how does one go about making happy Eggs Benedict with the perfect poach? How many out there knew 16 April was National Eggs Benedict Day? Kind of an odd remembrance day, but when food is involved I am interested! Eggs Benedict is that seemingly fussy entrée we like to treat ourselves to on the occasions we dine out for brunch. That creamy poached egg on top of salty meat, crunchy English muffin, and slurp-worthy Hollandaise makes for a dance of delight for your mouth. Throw in a glass of sparkling and it is celebration time at your place setting! Hey, sparkling before noon is perfectly acceptable as is the…
The Raw Truth: Planning a Dinner Party
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…
What the Hell – You can always order pizza!
You gotta have a “What the Hell” attitude in the kitchen because you can always order pizza! Have you ever tried something big or new and failed — with an audience? It’s one kind of failure when you and maybe your family know about it, but it is very different when your failure is exposed to others outside your realm of secret keepers. You can try something new in the kitchen in front of family and fail – no big deal. But inviting a group over and having a cooking fiasco in front of them? No Way! This is why many people don’t have dinner parties. Fear of failure in…
