Authors of Forking Fantastic!: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party, Zora O'Neill and Tamara Reynolds, start their weekly December visits with advice on holiday entertaining on a budget.
Zora and Tamara offer a non-budget-busting recipe for "crack ham". Check it out here.
Zora and Tamara offer a non-budget-busting recipe for "crack ham". Check it out here.
Event
Book Signing and holiday shopping party tonight at Site Design, 35-11 34th Ave, in Astoria, 6-9pm.
Comments [13]
Jane -
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/INCENTIVIZE
What makes it a "nonword"?
Brian, I love you but it just killed me to hear you use the nonword "incentivize."
In defense of the wine bringer who drinks your best vodka or scotch, while I often bring wine to homes when I know that the party giver is not a big booze drinker -- which they can save, give away or take to somebody's else's party -- I am famously known for always bringing a small bottle of mixed gin and tonic (in an empty water bottle) in my bag for my own consumption (usually, one or two predinner drinks). My friends used to raise eyebrows but now they tell me where the ice is. ;-)
I've also used the pickle ornament tradition as a party game...the first guest to find the pickle ornament receives an envelope of scratch-offs (or something like that).
I once asked guests to turn around and drive my son to another party! We were celebrating his bar mitzvah but he was invited to someone else's bat mitzvah party. btw... no one noticed that the Bar mitzvah boy wasn't even at our party!
Brian -
I protest! What is this "all women" thing? We had a relatively small Thanksgiving (32 people this year) at my folks, and this dutiful son brought cutlery, cheese, pie, moved furniture, mashed an industrial vat of potatos, and replaced furniture back.
Go with a box wine!
Our blog is called yvonneandyvettetiquette, we're twins.
Do these guests really want to trim the tree? To make their grandmother's trifle? Or, rather, do they just claim to want to do these things to seem a little less scrooge-like? Don't underestimate people's ability to make promises they have no intention of keeping. Especially family members. And ESPECIALLY when, as you say, there's 45 extra bottles of wine sitting around!
Whoa Brian, you need to expand the parties that you go to. I have been to several parties where there were men helping.
On our blog, we always recommend that people bring what they drink. Nothing worse than a guest who brings a bottle of wine and goes after the vodka.
I assigned someone to bring bagged ICE!! LOL
I make a sangria that is really great but very inexpensive. It serves 50.
This year I'm making an "ice sculpture" basically freezing some cheap holiday decorations in an ice block with votive candles on top.
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