Entertaining Ideas

A Complete Guide to Prepping for Thanksgiving – Recipes Included

A Complete Guide to Prepping for Thanksgiving – Recipes Included

Let's face it, hosting Thanksgiving is a big deal.  You have people looking forward to this amazing meal and it comes with great expectations.  Often, a lot of the menu is set ahead just because it is Thanksgiving.  Turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, gravy and...

Setting up an Ice Cream Sundae Station

Setting up an Ice Cream Sundae Station

Who doesn’t like ice cream? Whether it is plain vanilla or some exotic flavor, everyone likes it and has a favorite. Serving it for dessert is always a good idea. But setting up an Ice Cream Sundae Bar takes ice cream to a whole new level. Setting up a station at a...

A Mimosa Bar

A Mimosa Bar

Setting up a self serve bar is one of the best things a host or hostess can do for themselves. Talk about reducing stress! Having all your ingredients laid out attractively with easy to reach and serve options takes all the pressure off of you. Welcome your guests and...

Setting up a Bloody Mary Bar

Setting up a Bloody Mary Bar

Bloody Mary bars can be found everywhere!  I’ve seen them at Sunday Brunch at local restaurants, at day weddings (although, I don’t know about you, but that sounds risky to me if you are the bride all dressed in white…lol) and at Super Bowl parties.  Bloody Mary’s...

Leftover Holiday Food Recipes Magic

Leftover Holiday Food Recipes Magic

It happens every year. You are left with tons and tons of leftover food during the holidays. If you are like me, you have new Tupperware, baggies, tinfoil and shopping bags ready to pack up a lot of these leftovers and send them home with your guests. I’ve been...

Thanksgiving Make Ahead Side Dishes

Thanksgiving Make Ahead Side Dishes

  I love Thanksgiving! It is one of my favorite holidays to prepare for. I’ve got lists and ideas and folders of recipes I might try. (Yes, I still like to keep paper lists and often have paper recipes I’ve torn out of magazines and collected all year and have...

Easy Super Bowl Party

Easy Super Bowl Party

I've loved Super Bowl parties since I was a kid! What's not to love? All kinds of unlimited snacks, a fabulous game with tons of guests in your living room yelling and shouting and dressed up in "their colors", an amazing LIVE Concert and my favorite part, new,...

Galentine’s Day

Galentine’s Day

Some of my best Valentine's Days have been spent with my girlfriends, eating chocolate, drinking wine, gossiping and watching romantic comedies. Over the years, if there are unattached friends, I still have a Galentine's Day night at my house. Yes, chocolate and wine...