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i would like to find some lighter fruit and/or veggie finger food (tartlets, cakes, etc, for a stand-up dinner party). meat, dairy, and bread are all okay as components, but i'm trying to provide an alternative to a heavy mushroom pasta dish.

any ideas?

It's going to be bitterly cold on top of having had an ice storm last night. We're going to hunker down. I'm going to make split pea soup in the crock pot and bread in the bread maker. I'm thinking roast chicken and acorn squash for Sunday supper.

Simple comfort foods.

Thinkingwoman, I'm throwing a stand-up dinner party tomorrow night and on my list are radishes, butter and salt on crackers, crackers and cheese, fresh mozzerella skewered with a cherry/grape tomato and basil, minestrone soup in dinner roll bowls, marsala simmered mushrooms and assorted nuts and cookies. You could also do roasted zucchini spears brushed with pesto, eggplant rounds with goat cheese, fruit skewers or, if you have the time, take that pear tart that was posted here last week (or was it two weeks ago?) and make pear tartlets with a single seckle pear on each one. I wanted to do that but ran out of time.

Good luck!

I am going to a party tonight, and I am once again bringing the DIY Peppermint Patties. New people to share them with! Easiest and most impressive DIY I've ever done! I feel a tradition coming on.....

Tomorrow night is the highly anticipated annual Winter Festival of Pie that my friends have been hosting for several years. It's a pie-luck, and every dish, sweet and savory, must come in the form of a pie, pizza, quiche, tart, or other acceptable pie-like form. I'm thinking of making a tourtiere, and my boyfriend may attempt his first quiche. It will be a fun night, as every year, more people show up, pies in hand!

we're having our bring-your-own-holiday party (potluck) tomorrow night, and we're making knorr spinach dip, cheese fondue, and a brisket. i'm also putting out olives, marinated artichoke hearts, and roasted red peppers. i have some brandy infusing with dried apricots and almond slivers and after i strain that, i might make a simple white cake with the brandied apricots on top, but that's kind of ambitious at this point!

onewallkitchen, that pie-luck is such a cute idea! i might have to steal that.

I am looking forward to having a lot of salad fixins and lean protein around this weekend. My husband and i hosted a get together earlier in the week, he had his office party yesterday, we attend mine tonight. I am looking forward to simple eating and getting away from the sweets and fats of the season.

I made sticky buns today.

currently baking Shepard's pie! and making "langues de chat" later for my friends' party tomorrow!

Attending a party tonight and because it is down the street, I am briging a brie round (thank you Trader Joes for the 1 pounder) topped w/dried cherries and pecans and wrapped in puff pastry. It has been terribly cold here as well so we'll stick w/the comfort foods too-I am thinking of a lentil soup.

the snow in new york city screams out for a warm, homey pork stew. also baking some cheesecake brownies to take to work.

I'm doing my holiday baking today since I have a completely open weekend. I'm making granola, peppermint truffles and either caramels or David Lebovitz's gingersnaps. Whatever I don't get to today I'll do tomorrow. Whatever I get to, I'll be keeping the sampling to a bare minimum - necessary taste tests only (the last thing I want right now is sweets).

I baked some ginger galettes and sugar cookies for the girls at work. Happy Holidays!

We hosted a "family recipes" pot luck last night, where people brought family recipes or things they wish were family recipes. Even though we're basically snowed in, about 12 friends who were within walking distance showed up, including one friend's parents. Her mom made an awesome southern comfort cake.