Archive for April 5th, 2008
New category: Tips, Techniques and Ideas
It’s all in the planning: Disaster Avoidance 101
We are pleased to announce our newest category: Tips, Techniques and Ideas; designed to provide helpful insights into cooking, entertaining and just “plain old life situations”. Our newest blogger, Teresa will post on table settings and decorations; along with an occasional entertaining post. I will continue to provide some “how-to” assistance; hopefully taking some of the drama out of cooking but leaving in all the romance.
I will admit it, for years I was a closet planner. I always convinced myself that I just put dinners together without much forethought; kind of spontaneously without much of the combustion. Well now that I am older and maybe a little wiser I find I have to actually put my planning down on paper instead of keeping it all together in my head. This may account for the cranberry sauce now making it to the table on Thanksgiving as opposed to finding it in the frig two weeks later.
Planning a large party or an intimate dinner for two requires the same steps to guarantee success. The more you think through it the less stress you will have in the final product. In the next several weeks we will explore all the aspects of planning; from inception through cleanup. As an added benefit for those who are members of the emealsforyou clan we will include a section called “Feel the Power”; a quick guide to using the emeals site in planning. Using the meal planning and shopping list functions I was able to plan, shop and prepare a formal dinner party of 9 and a formal buffet for 35 with just a single trip to the market.
Next week’s post: Planning the guest list, timing and theme. I hope to see you back here.
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