Plan Your Gathering
Tips and helpful advice to plan and organize a gathering.
The Best Dinner Party Questions for Fun Conversation Starters
This post on dinner party questions will help you avoid awkward silence and maintain a lively conversation with your dinner guests. Plus you can get a printable version of 112 great questions and more below! Home is my favorite place to entertain my friends. Whether hosting a large group in the backyard or a small group setting at my dining table, I find good conversation and good food are the two keys to a successful dinner party. Restaurants are not the best social settings as they are challenging for good conversation. Additionally, although attention is appreciated, it is hard to have a deep conversation when the waitstaff interrupts you. Don’t…
Best Backyard BBQ Dinner Party Ideas: Easy Outdoor Guide
These backyard bbq dinner party ideas will help you celebrate any warm weather weekend. It’s finally Labor Day weekend! The unofficial end of summer and warmer months. The warm weather is ending for many, so fire up the grill and enjoy a summer night with an al fresco dinner party. Here are some easy grilling recipes and a complete barbeque menu with wine pairings for your Labor Day cookout or use them for any weekend patio party you want to throw in your own backyard. These easy grilling recipes will take the guesswork out of hosting your next outdoor dinner party. Get ready to impress your guests without being stuck…
Brilliant Ideas For Dinner Party Success In Four Easy Steps
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…
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Your Best Leprechaun Style
If you’re looking to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in style, look no further! Here are some ideas to get your Irish on and have a party that everyone will enjoy. Whether you’re planning a big bash or just a small gathering, we’ve got you covered. So put on your greenest clothes and let’s get started! Why is there a Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day? Wikipedia gives a good history. They state Saint Patrick was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. It is believed that he was born into a wealthy British family and his father and grandfather held prominent roles in the Christian church. Apparently, at the age…
5 Easy Steps: Host Your Fabulous Budget-Friendly Double Date Dinner
Here are 5 easy steps to host your fabulous Double Date Dinner at home. And this budget-friendly menu will cost less than the price for one couple to eat out at a nice restaurant – wine included!
Healthy Date Night HOT Off the Grill
Enjoy this healthy date night meal hot from the grill so you can heat up your relationship, not your kitchen. Maybe you need a break, but maybe you really need to shake it up a bit. So how about mixing it up and having a night for the two of you away from electronics, TV, kid talk, boss talk, and worry talk?
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…
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…
