Holiday Entertaining Made Easier
Hosting a holiday bash can give us the jitters, but there are ways to
make the festivities fly well. Less is more. The key is to not give into
the pressure of making lots of lavish dishes from scratch.
It's okay to say yes if guests want to bring a dish, or make
store-bought look homemade by adding some personal touches.
Here's a store-bought prepared seafood salad -- garnished with a crab
claw and surrounded with our favorite crackers and breads:
Starting with a whole cooked turkey breast -- if we slice it and serve
it
Serve it along with hard rolls, and a jazzed up easy cranberry spread we
can mix together in a jiffy with some cranberry sauce and mayonnaise.
Want to dazzle your guests even more? Try a cheesecake bar:
Cut up a store-bought cheesecake into squares, place the squares in
little paper muffin cup liners
Offer up an assortment of toppings from hot fudge sauce and fruit, to
crushed peppermint and nuts like macadamias -- let them go to town and
mix and match their favorite toppings!
Gathering our loved ones around the table for a meal is what counts --
it's not how hard we worked -- it's the time together that's the true
meaning of...
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Access the Recipes And More list archives at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/
Visit the group home page at:
http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
![]()
![]()
Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas
~Angelique
|
