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…
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…
