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a New Year's Eve dinner party

fun, cozy night with the ladies.

A surprise cocktail party for my husband on 1/12/07.

Happy birthday honey! Even though he won't read this. :)

a small family dinner at my fiance's condo in celebration of our upcoming marriage.

themed party for New Years

My freezer is full of lobster tails my husband caught this season. It's almost time for our annual Lobster Mobster party and these cookbooks could give me some new recipes for my friends to enjoy!

I'd like to have a very casual dinner with just a few friends. Could the winner get the chef's hat too? ;)

I'm planning my dinner party guest list already...

Casual dinner with a few other couples.

New Year's cocktail party.

Classic Movie Night and Dinner

A small dinner party with friends when I finish the first draft of my dissertation. Because I know nothing I want to celebrate more than finishing my dissertation! (Now I just need to, well, finish it!)

just good food, good wine and a few good friends.

Fondue!

Those books would be great to expand my kitchen skills. We have a waiting list of friends who want to come over for dinner as it is.

A "warm, fuzzy" dinner party: Souped up comfort foods, a decadent dessert and spiked cocoa/coffee to maintain the warmth.

I'd like to have a healthy, lucious, tummy- and heartwarming dinner party for a group of my fellow "holiday orphans" who can't be with loved ones for the holidays.

I've been eyeing that Greyston cookbook for awhile. It's AT's Menu for Hope prize, too, isn't it? So many great prizes at Menu for Hope! Today's the last day to buy tickets!!

A healthy NYE dinner party, after all the over eating that happened the week before!

A retro cocktail party with just a few friends

Small, 6-8 friends, with traditional southern italian cooking.

Super Bowl Party

Birthday dinner for me! :) Small (5-6), vegetarian and casual.

A housewarming party, since we still haven't gotten around to it (and it's been six months... eek!)

"stuffed grape leaves" party

A tea party dinner party with my 5 girlfriends where everything is bite sized!

definitely a tea party! I've been gathering up mugs and recipes!

Finally, a housewarming! Finger foods, booze and my great view!

Any kind of party, as long as there's food.

I've REALLY been wanting a party to celebrate my newly remodeled kitchen! I'd like several chic finger food options and one signature drink, hot or cold, to ladle out.

Have a few friends over for dinner and a movie

A budget gourment new year party!

Something intimate with our friends before my wife hits her busy season at work in January.

A casual, but fun dinner with friends.

a small dinner party to celebrate moving into our new neighborhood!

A nice cozy house warming at my new place!

A New Year's Day brunch party for all the folks who stay over from New Year's Eve!

just a good one (with expert help ;) )

Well, I'm an LSU grad, so I'm planning to have an informal dinner party for the bowl game with a Cajun/Creole menu. Not inventive, but delicious.

I'd love to have a little dinner party. Lots of comfort food and a fire!

a tapas party!

A small dinner party with a few couples we are just getting to know.

Dinner for the anesthesiologists! What won't put them to sleep?!

House warming party for my palatial new digs!

A cosy night in with lots of comfort food.

small party for my family to bring in the new year.

Everyone is travelling for the holiday and New Years, so I'd like to get my friends all back together in the city at a cozy dinner party in my apt (and i do mean COZY in my little place!) maybe mid-January. We can swap photos and stories and recenter ourselves for a new year!

a "Thank God the Holidays are Over" party

I'd love to have a reunion type party for my family - informal.

I'd like to have a dinner party to try to set up my single friends.

Please randomly select me!

I'd love to have a gaming night party. We love good food, and we love video games.

New Years Eve would be a good night for me to host a dinner party :)

Just a few friends and some anime, probably. And Ikaruga. And Gradius. And....

I'd love to get my grad school friends together for a cocktail party.

A Wii family and fun dinner party. It is always fun to watch people playing games and interacting together.

My birthday's January 19th and we just moved into a bigger apartment. I'd love to have a combo housewarming and birthday party

any type of party with great friends, good food, and sensational wine

Cozy small casual dinner, since I only have enough plates for six!

A kid-friendly (parent-friendly) dinner. Fun for kids of all ages!

Casual dinner with friends over Xmas

A dinner party to bring friends together during the winter duldrums and to celebrate our newly insulated attic!

A housewarming party for coworkers and friends.

Ice cream party.

an everything pomegranate red dinner party!

I would like to have an informal potluck party with the theme "favorite comfort food".

A party to get to know our neighbors better.

I've been wanting to try the leg of lamb recipe from Suzanne Goin's book. Just a few friends and loads of good wine.

dessert!

A relaxed evening of good food and good wine with a few friends

Dinner party with old friends

A home re-warming for when we finally finish the construction.

I like themed parties. I'm not sure what theme, but you could help with that.

Nothing fancy - just a casual/low-stress dinner party for a few friends and excellent food.

A Dead of Winter party in February when we're all tired of being housebound and need something to really pick us up.

A dinner party where someone else is cooking for a change!

friends, lots of tecate, puerco pibil, beans, rice, salsa, and tortillas made to order all evening long.

I would love to host a Girls' Night Out Crepe Dinner Party. We'd have lots and lots of crepes with lots of fillings. Savory crepes, sweet crepes (I love them with nutella), fruit crepes, you name it! Oh that would be so fun!

sunday brunch with my girlfriends!

I'd like to have an Iron Chef type dinner party, where everyone can participate in the cooking fun.

a bollywood-themed indian feast!

a fondue dinner party

Something grown up, without a baby needing to nurse...

A New Years party up in the mountains at our cabin

My boyfriend and I just moved to the parlor level of a brownstone in Brooklyn. After the holidays are over I would like to have his parents/siblings etc and my parents/siblings over for a dinner party (10 people). He and I love cooking so it would be the perfect way to introduce them to our new home!

i've always wanted to have a dessert-only party.

what we call a ya-ya sister brunch...you got to know my sisters!!

we're grilling and having a bonfire, but want to have a fondue party and a tea party in the next few weeks.....

I'd like to have a retro dinner party with foods from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Featuring food like fondue, and bacon wrapped water chestnuts, etc. etc.!

I would love a swanky retro house warming party, once I move into my new apartment next month!

A special birthday dinner party for my husband (January) -featuring dishes from his roots (Nicaragua) and mine (Norway and Appalachia). He loves dishes from all three cultures/regions. I know it is a little odd, but hey, that's the plan and he'll love it!

A sampling party. Kind of like a more upscale potluck.

I'd like to throw a happy getting-through-the-holidays-in-one-piece-and-relatively-sane party for my wife. On top of the holiday madness, it is also her busy time at work. Hang in there, Sweetpea!

I would like to have a dinner party with friends. Plus super bowl parties are always fun.

A housewarming party

A whole family get together casual party. With everyone's schedule and obligations, we can't seem to all get together anymore. It would be such fun to play catch-up other than on the phone.

I'd love to have a cupcake party!

a dinner party were dessert comes first

I would like to have a cocktail party with friends and neighbors that would kick off a monthly wine party at one another's houses.

Planning a lollapalooza of a birthday party dinner (3 of us). All of us are good cooks (African American, Italian, and Mexican). Musicians and dancers will be the majority of the guests. Tons of people to feed. Any ideas?

I would like a costumed dinner party.

soup party! lots of yummy soup on a cold winter's night.

Just moved into a new city, would love a casual housewarming party, wine, good apps, sumptuous veg and meat courses and a killer dessert.

a cocktail and nibbles party

A "Must have Cheese" Party. Just what I need!

cocktails!

Southern comfort food... yummmm

Informal and easy

middle eastern-themed - very informal & casual

A mid-January Christmas white elephant gift exchange--soup and sandwich supper.

super tuesday party in early march

I'd love to have a gathering with 4 of my closest friends- including one uber-healthy eater and one meat-a-tarian (no veggies). What a difficult task!

intimate party with lots of good rich food - lobster, filet mignon, fresh spinach with garlic and smashed potatoes.

An apres ski dinner with lots of red wine and hot toddies.

I would love to have a simple night with the ladies in my life. Perhaps some nice wine, some great food and a evening of memories that will last a lifetime. If we are talking about a summer party though...I am going to a family reunion over the 4th of July and there will be LOTS of us there so something fast but YUMMY for those who know and love me most!

it would be amazing to finally be able to host an asian/eastern-european fusion dinner party for our families in our own fairly-newly purchased first home.

What kind of dinner party I'd like to have? Well planned, well attended, well received. Is this naive? I've never had a dinner party that didn't involve take-out but I'd sure like to.

A small potluck dinner with a few close friends.

a post-holiday dinner party for my friends who are traveling this week

A fire in the fireplace, light snow falling, jazzy Christmas music on the stereo, and a house full of my friends from all over the country and all over the world.

Just me and a friend. Spend part of Saturday cooking, then have someone over on Sunday. Make a few things I've made before (some mushroom soup, a quinoa salad with nuts and crunchy vegetables and maybe some dried cranberries, a cucumber salad) and try something new (that's where a new cookbook would come in). And I want to make cake-style gingerbread with homemade whipped cream.

Maybe what I'm describing isn't a dinner party, but it would make me happy. Something small and quiet. Relaxed.

pagan midwinter celebration.

I'm having a New Year's Day open house, all afternoon into the evening ... which I haven't done in two years.

A three course meal of Bouillabaisse--lots of saffron and toast points with aioli--served with a Sancerre.

One word: Soup.

A January, let's start a fresh new year party.

Oh my boyfriend and I love dinner parties. We're hoping to make our next one a tapas/small plates night. Hope hope hope!

I've been trying to motivate myself to throw a dinner party for the longest time to reconnect with friends who have yet to see my now-not-so-new apt....

A crabby Elvis birthday dinner (Jan. 8) - cracked crab and a video from the King. And of course some nice fattening dessert!

New Year's!

a very very late housewarming

blah blah blah

New year's eve.

Dinner party for about 15 or so. wine, food, and all that.

Girls night in.

House warming party.

HOW PERFECT ! :)

A New Years' Dinner party.

Open House Desert Party on New Years complete with Bubbly

Holiday brunch

a potluck dinner with my college friends I don't get to see very much.

a wonderful and luxurious three-course meal with good friends at our apt.

Relaxed lunch into dinner

I think I will finally have my late 1 year house warming party serving the best dishes I've been practicing in my "new home".

Food themed movies and the food from the movie. Make it, watch it, eat it.

raclette! also, does the giveaway come with the chef's hat?

A dinner party with Kazakh food. Maybe if I learn to cook something Kazakh, my in-laws will stop hinting that they know some lovely single Kazakh girls!

sounds like a great book!

I am hosting a thirsty traveler party. I have recorded the complete series, and am going to chose my favorite episodes and serve the food and drink from those episodes.

I would like to spice things up and have a Mexican themed party.

I am having an appetizer and dessert party Christmas eve, eve.

I would like to have an indoor barbeque party. I would cook it all outside and bring it in to my toasty warm guests.

a small get together of close friends.

I'd like to have a "catch up with old friends who apparently just moved back to the area" sort of party - and what better way to do that then with a nice, informal dinner party?

Thanksgiving Eve

Oh, how handy!

My partner and I will celebrate 9 years of being together, and I would love to throw a dinner party to commemorate.

quite the thing this would be
to have someone cheffing just for me

to learn a twist, a trick, a mix, a step
that makes the cooking less of a mess

my skills improved, my confidence high
the invite list would multiply

I'd find my calling as social priestess
nourishing friends with fabulous dishes

so heed my call for help this xmas
don't leave me here lost with instant mixes

small cozy cocktail party

we throw casual dinner parties constantly. i want more and more of those!

A friend of mine's parents used to throw an Anti Post-Holiday Depression Party every winter in mid-January. I think I'd like to start that tradition for my friends and family - good food, wine, and company as the perfect antidote to short days, little sun, and cold (or, if you live in KY, manic and frenzied) weather.

just tried a greyston brownie for the first time-
this would be nice!

Italian

dinner for my future M-I-L

post-holiday, friends-only regroup. we will all have gossip about our nutty families.

a small one with friends

I love hosting pot-lucks because everyone brings something unique, so my ideal dinner party would be a pot-luck with 10-15 friends.

I like cooking for those I love

bday party

I would host a mid-week mid-winter brunch for my fellow stay-at-home mom friends who feel cooped-up and freaked-out. I think I'll do it even if I don't win.

fondue party

A vegetarian, post holiday so everyone can relax dinner party...

A birthday dinner! My boyfriend and I were both born in January! This would be an excellent present for the both of us.

I suddenly find myself with lots of single friends of both genders. I'd love to have a dinner party for eight and see what happens when all these great people are thrown together for a cozy home-cooked meal.

An elegant foods dinner party - to get all my grad student friends out of their ramen habits!

Housewarming party with Tapas--pass the manchego, please!

My hubby and I are planning a thank-you dinner in our tiny apartment for my in-laws in January--and we could really use some guidance!

Hope I win

I will cook!

I already cook!!!

a roller derby party with my favorite teammates!

bridal shower with the girls!

I'd love to throw a poker themed party after the new year!

Bunko with the girls!! thanks

A party to thank all my new friends for welcoming me to a new city.

A simple comfort-food dinner for a few friends...

I'd love to have a vegan Indian dinner party for when I arrive back from my trip to India.

awesome!!

a casual dinner party w/ my four oldest friends

a birthday dinner party for my boyfriend and his best friends, in early feb!

Casual cocktail party with hors d'oeuvres for a small group of friends

a Brunch party for my co workers and their kids

A dinner with greek food!

a casual dinner party for six or so.

I'd love to do a dead of winter dinner. Some friends and their kids would join us for ice skate or sledding. Once home, the kids curl up with popcorn and a movie, while the adults have drinks. Dinner would be simple - mac and cheese and salad with a terrific red wine.

This year, I'd like to have a great big fat dinner party at my new house which has been under construction since June and is still not done!

I'd like to try a glogfest with mulled drinks and a smorgasbord with appetizers and salmon and ham dishes, along with beets and potato bread and an authentic Scandinavian Yule log, and a good selection of traditional Christmas cookies to to finish with. It would be a nice change from the usual eggnog, turkey, sweet potato,
pecan pie, Christmas cookies party we usually have.

I'd have a dinner party for my best clients (I am an attorney), but I would definitely need professional help to pull that off.

i have no idea but i'd love to plan something.

new cookbooks one more good reason to cook -
a party in January - there are tons in December and then January seems to bleak.

a housewarming cocktail party with appetizers with all of my closest friends...a new apartment for a new year :)

I like to have a casual dinner with 3-4 other couples and serve healthy, delicious food.

I want this gift.

Something casual, warm and cozy to fight the weather outside

birthday party!

a warm and cozy one. It's sooooo cold outside!

A New Hampshire primary party!

I would love to throw a January Scandinavian feast!

I would love to host a small fundraiser dinner for a medical center. It's focus is on serving children from birth to 18 who's family are either impoverished or are involved in the foster care system.

Each and every baby born into their services is given a handmade baby blanket. While it may not seem like a lot, it very well may be the warmest blanket the baby has. There are other programs to address medical, educational, social and psychological needs.

We donate funds and blankets as we can but it would be nice to do something a little bit more. I'll be doing the party but would love new ideas from these books and the help in planning.

a casual, italian antipasto party to keep it relaxed and low-key

New Year's Eve dinner party!

A fondue party as it is properly done in Switzerland.

google it to find details

Just a cozy, quiet dinner with friend & lots of laughs & good food!!

I would love to have a fun fondue party. Thank you!

A CHOCOLATE AND WINE PARTY! YUM

A family gathering since we were unable to have all the family here at Christmas a new years dinner would be great with Turkey and all that goes with it.

I think that I'd like a potluck dinner where everyone brings something that is their favorite cultural comfort food. I have a very diverse group of friends and it would be a lot of fun to see and try what each one of them grew up enjoying.

A cozy dinner party with comfort foods would be nice during the cold winter months.

A nice little party with family

Simple delicious compfortable dinner part.

Dinner with close friends and old fashioned comfort food

I would love to host a New Year's Eve fondue party

Just family and friends for a casual dinner and conversation.

A new baby party for my little one!

A fun casual couples dinner. Thanks for the giveaway.

I need any help cooking i can get

a fun fondue party for my future sister-in-law's bridal shower!

dinner party where everyone brought cans of food to donate to a shelter

A murder mystery/dinner party -- all dressed up and someone is a criminal! :)

I'd like to have a party where my family & friends brought food so we can donate to a local shelter.

I would love to have a dinner party for my friends here that don't have family... The food....savory comfort foods paired with wines and one fancy(ish) dessert!

I would love to host a party featuring different types of rustic soups and breads. Seems like the perfect feast when the weather is so cold and snowy.

I'd like to have a dinner party where each dish is an old family favorite updated and bumped up a notch, like instead of baked ham - ham wellington.

A small, cozy one for close family and friends

Informal dinner for family and close friends.

I'd love to have an "Around the World" dinner party, with each course from a different cuisine.

an intimate dinner party

cozy party with my sisters....

small intimate party with good friends and family.

fondue

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese party!

happy holidays!

A mom's night in dinner party.

a friends from far and near party-close friends come and i'll send a box of fun stuff and treats to my friends that are far and we will link up live with them via online- hooked up to my tv monitor that way we will be able to enjoy each others company.

Definetely,a french one ,like I had the last time I was in Paris

cooking! the gift of time...

a fresh pasta party

casual dinner for four to six

Evening with my ladys and a bottle of wine!

My family is the best! Merry Christmas!

I would love to help my sister in law celebrate her birthday at the end of January. We have a small circle of friends and family who always help us celebrate whatever needs celebrating. Believe me -- food is always the main event! I think this year it will be family favorite comfort foods. You know -- foods that remind you of your childhood.

I would love to have a super bowl party. For once I am interested in the teams that may be going all the way and think it would be fun and a challenge to come up with something creative, other than the usual sandwiches and chips.

Well I'm planning a Christmas day dinner right now & I have to come up with a New Years Eve party, I think its going to be finger foods & snacks. Thanks for the contest.

A small dinner party with 6 of our closest friends, enjoying my homemade spaghetti!

what a great new years party and super bowl party.

I'd like to have a simple 6 person dinner party with luxurious food (filet mignon wrapped in bacon, roasted pears with melted blue cheese, etc.).

Seeing as we just moved south and normally this time of year we would be facing 20 degrees or lower (and its 65) I would defently have a BBQ just because we can!!

I'd love to have a small dinner party...so small, that it's just me and boyfriend :)

A potluck dinner for my siblings and their children.

A dinner with good friends and hearty food!

Dessert party.

I would love to have a Scandanavian meal with lots of meat, a big bowl of grog, and food with juniper berries.

movie night with family

I'm thinking about having a literary dinner party with friends that are into the classics. Maybe serve up some "For Whom The Bell Peppers Toll" (stuffed peppers), or "The Count of Monte Cristo" sandwiches with some Edgar Allen Poe-tatoes.

A friendly dinner party for a few close friends.

Friends and family.

Definitely a football party

Superbowl party!

progressive suppers are best

dinner w/ family and friends

A German food themed party.

please enter me thanks

an open house party, so all our friends can stop by, maybe in the spring...

dinner with family

Id like to have an old fashion Charles Dickens Christmas Party with a Christmas Goose and all.

I'd like to host a casual party for all the folks who've been so good to us since we moved to our new-to-us home in a small town. Make comfort food for it, play good music, and give back a little of the warmth and friendliness with which they've blessed us.

one where everyone gets drunk of their ass, that might be good

A Super Bowl party (celebrating the Dallas Cowboys) with lots of appetizers and desserts (and of course, ice cold beer). I'm a girl of simple tastes.

i'll have a pot-luck, cuz i love those!

a romantic dinner with my husband

A totally alone evening in our home without the kiddos evening, hahaha, I just read the comment above me. Then a New Year's Day come as you like chill out party.

I'd like to have an informal get-together that would be a literal "soup to nuts" affair! Each guest would have to bring an item from an appetizer list to dessert...including a special winter "comfort" soup to some exotic nuts!

a big family dinner

A small formal dinner party.

I would like to have an after the holidays dinner for a few friends.

just a family together

A new Years Day football party.With lots of good food.

A nice Dinner party with family and friends and would love to try new and exciting recipes.

potluck

a small, cozy dinner with close friends

a salsa dance party

probably a small dinner party to show my friends where i now live.

Birthday party (Hubby is in January, mine in February)

Our traditional Christmas dinner wirg ham, uams and homemade Christmas cookies fordesert!

tea party with the kids

Game night party!

New Years Eve!

Project Hope Fundraiser to raise awareness for our foundation and for local and national monthly charities. Love to have a dessert, coffee, tea affair( with chocolate of course!)

A fish fry

a dessert party

A fun gathering of friends for a dinner party where the very busy host is not still cooking at the last minute and actually has a plan for the table settings, theme & music! This would be a dream come true.

the one I get invited to.

I'd like to host a New Years Party where our friends can bring their children.

We'd like to have a Chinese New Year dinner party this winter, since it's virtually impossible to get together with our friends over the holidays (too many scheduling conflicts!).

I'd like to have a Japanese dinner party.
And the foods served would correspond with the anime we're watching. Like I would serve grilled eel and rice bowls while my guests are watching the scene in Samurai Champloo when Jin, Mugen and Foo are in a grilled eel eating contest.

I would serve fatty tuna sushi while my guests are watching the episode of Great Teacher Onizuka where his students are blackmailing him and he has to buy them an expensive meal of fatty tuna sushi.

There's another anime where Crab Shabu is an important part of the story. A lot of anime has food in it.

I would like to have a fondue dinner party!

the best super bowl party ever

A casual dinner with a few other couples

If I had room, I would like to host a dinner party for the wonderful ladies who do so much for our pet rescue group and save countless lives.

just beiong with family and friends it doesn't have to be spectacular just being together

I love theme parties - my favorite to host is a Mexican Fiesta!

Theme partes are great ideas.

just have friends over for rood and poker

Game night. Bring the kids and there will be games for all ages.

Had a party for my sons' friends last nite.

A fun dinner party with games and music

a Baby shower for my friends who are expecting their first from Taiwan=)

A great movie night with the family with plenty of snacks and finger foods.

I love theme parties

I will be holding a beer tasting.

A small family gathering, a dinner party for 4 grownups and 5 kids.

SUPER BOWL PARTY

Super Bowl Party

Fantasy party - my sister, both my nieces and their families, my mom, my daughters, son-in-law, and sweet grandson (and my hubby also, of course) with all their favorite dishes. My family are the funnest people I know. Getting all together at once is the fantasy part!

casual super bowl party with everyones great food dishes

We hosted a thanksgiving dinner for the first time this year, that's been my favourite so far...

I COULD DO THAT

I'd like to have a casual outdoor dinner party in honor of my neighbors. We moved here in July and they've been the best neighbors I've ever had.

4 guests so they can entertain each other while we are busy in kitchen

New Years dinner party

new year's party

Easter dinner party

A small get together with great food and wine.

A chance to finally meet all the neighbors and show them that I can cook!

I would like to have a nice soup, salad, crusty bread and some good movies party with friends.

I would like to enter :)

New Years Eve

I'd love to have a Thai themed Dinner Party. It's one of our favorite cuisines, and would bring something fresh to our dull Minnesota Winters.

I would love to do a progressive dinner party but I could not decide which part of the dinner I would love to do. I think the main meal would be the best!

potluck

casual family

I want to win!

international fayre

A Burns Night dinner, with friends, food, Robert Burns-style poetry readings and toasts!

A New Years Eve Party including my new grandson!

a casual new years eve dinner with a few friends

Desert.

I don't do parties. I prefer a quiet night at home.

Super Bowl

potluck

I'd like to have a dinner party for three or four couples, introducing our friends to one another. Then, I'd like to have a pirate-themed dinner party. :)

My dinner party of choice is one that requires as little work
as possible on the day of the party (I like having time to
enjoy my guests). For me, that means a buffet (hot and cold).

a potluck of comfort foods for the cold weather

I would love to have a fun and festive winter pool party that combined the parents and the kids alike. A heated pool, a buffet, music, dancing, laughter and good times to be had by all.

Seafood feast

Invite as many people as can finish a honey lavender roasted duck

friends with kids mixer

a relaxed cocktail party with the neighbors

I'd like to have a fun, casual dinner party. Lots of food, drinks, music, laughs and good times with good friends.

Shared comfort foods.

some kind of theme party with cocktails

I have to do a roast beef and trimmings dinner, but I'd prefer to just put out mounds of spaghetti and meatballs, salad, and Italian bread!

A warn, Simple, and fun party with friends and family that don't have much, we have a few friends that we tend to take care of each other when in need!

Crab feed for a few friends. Good salad and fresh, warm french bread on the side. Great bottle of wine.

Just a small dinner for my boss and his wife

Wine and tapas party for about 10 friends. Light desserts.

A "bring your own food" party

Cooking for the whole family.

I think winter is the perfect time to do a retro fondue party!

Making a menu list, checking it twice, and then putting the pieces in a pot for participants to draw from to determine what they will make/bring to the potluck party. Item doesn't "have to be" exact but at least it helps everyone from bringing a green bean casserole. :)

We love to have a hot summertime party when it is cold and dreary... complete with tropical drinks, beach chairs, hokey beach movies, the works... ALL ages love this one. It helps if you get the dorky luau decorations as well.

crockpot chili party

An early Thanksgiving dinner for close friends, two weekends before hand. So we can be thankful for our "other" family.

Casual dinner with family and friends.

I'd love to have a 'getting to know your neighbor' dinner party.

I'd like to throw a dinner party of any kind, instead of always planning to throw a dinner party but never getting around to doing it.

I'm cooking up a storm of goodies for my family and friends.I'm so tired can't wait for the wine.

casual

I want to have a healthy dinner party.

I think I want to try one of those traveling dinner parties where you change houses with every course. That sounds like so much fun!

for my husbands bday

I'd love to have a nice cookout on a warm day but I live in New England so that ain't gonna happen.

for my sisters to celebrate ourselves

Anything as long as the family is here!

I'd like to have a New Year's Eve birthday dinner party. My birthday is on New Year's day so I'd like to celebrate it with a dinner party.

Shabu shabu party, you sit, cook at the table, and eat all evening.

I would love to have a nice cozy dinner party with the girls. Start off girls night out with lots of nummies.

an "I've Missed You" party for old friends........

A festive holiday gathering

New Years Party! :)

I would love to have a casuall dinner party with just my closest friends.

I am having a dinner party for out of town guests.

a holiday gathering

I love a casual buffet. An open house with about a 2 hour window. My specialty is oriental pork meat balls. Everyone raves about them.

A casual dinner part with friends.

A good old Cajun dinner party!

A scrabble party-using the scrabble themed decorations from a few weeks ago and these cookbooks!

Wine and cheese.

Dinner and games with my sister and friends.

Whew---that was a lot of reading all those comments.

an elegant New Year's Eve dinner party

Fondue!!! I love fondue!
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wine tasting party

Comfort food dinner party.

i want to win

a planetary party --- the first week of February the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, will be close together in the morning pre-dawn sky, forming a spectacular double... good reason to stay up through the night with a warm fire, good drink, good friends.

Super Bowl Dinner Party

SUper bowl party!

Wine tasting with some yummy hors d'oeuvres!

The dinner party that I would like to have would be with two brothers and their families and my family. It would start off with great appetizers and end with some superb desserts! Thanks for this opportunity!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday

A COOKIE EXCHANGE PARTY W/ WINE FOR ALL

A cozy New Years Eve dinner party with a few friends.

How fun! I would love to have a really fun New Years Party!!!!!!!

A small party with my family and then after dinner play some board games!

I want a sushi party!

A tailgating themed party for the Super Bowl.

Family reunion

another vote for a tea party.

I love making warm cozy food.

A small holiday party with just me and my family.

comfort food party

I'd like to have a comfort food dinner party.

I would love to have a small New Years dinner party with my closest friends.

I would like to have a soup and bread kind of dinner party. Something warm and hearty as well as casual and comfy.

My granddaughter here being served as princesses-tea party

I would love to have a family dinner party with all of everyone's favorite meals.

I'd like to have a comfort food party on a snow day!

Mexican food party for neighbors.

The "After Christmas Stress Relieve" Party......

A get-together dinner for my family on New Years, would be nice.

a fun New Year's party!

I would love to have an all vegetable dinner party

A classic cocktail party

Family and friends will come to my house for a traditional Holiday meal.

I would love to have my family all together at some point. We haven't been able to accomplish that for several years now.

I'd just like to have a couple of friends over.

A few friends to my house.

Fondue, for sure.

A nice Barbeque dinner in our back yard!

Shabbat dinner party!

Authentic Chinese :)

good food, good friends

A new year's eve baby-friendly party with champagne-spiked breastmilk for the infants!