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Weekend Entertaining: Ideas for Themed Dinner Parties

We're throwing a dinner party in a few weeks, but are still stuck on a theme. Tapas? Breakfast for Dinner? Down-Home Southern? Classic French? Ack! As a guest or a host, what has been your most memor...

Dinner Party Invitations from Pink Lily Press

We are big fans of old-fashioned hand-written dinner invitations. They are such an unusual touch of civility and graciousness in our fast-paced world. We just came across these letterpressed dinner in...

Entertaining with Moo: Dinner Party Mementos and More

We saw this post over at Apartment Therapy: Chicago about Moo on-demand printing, and immediately thought, "Oooh! Dinner parties!" Cute and crafty, Moo gives us the ability to reproduce our favorite ...

Weekend Entertaining: Throwing an Iron Chef Dinner Party

Whose cuisine reigns supreme?! We may not be quite up to battling Bobby Flay over cuttlefish, but we think we're game for challenging our next door neighbor over flank steak! Lately, we've heard abo...

Best Foods for Conversation?

Last night we were out with a dear friend, and we ordered a favorite dish for both of us: grilled artichokes with remoulade. It was smoky, crispy around the edges, and tender in the leaves. We strippe...

Entertaining: Q&A with Jessie Saunders, author of The Two of Us...and Friends

Jessie Saunders knows what it's like to cook and entertain in a tiny kitchen. For years, she and her husband lived in a small apartment in New York's Greenwich Village, where, she says, "If everyone ...

Dinner Party Planning: Scheduling Backwards

Earlier this week, we talked about five great tips for dinner party planning. As our Cure takers gear up for their big dinner party, we'd like to take a minute to look at one of those tips in more dep...

Basic Technique: How to Blanch Vegetables

Blanching vegetables--cooking them in a large amount of boiling water--might seem fussy or bring to mind childhood dinners of overcooked mushy carrots. But blanching is a good technique to keep in yo...

Entertaining Tip: Good Reasons to Serve Food Family Style

We've written about serving dinner party food in tiny, individual dishes, and now we're hitting the other end of the spectrum: family-style entertaining. There are many advantages to piling food onto ...

Entertaining Tip: Our Answer to "What Can I Bring?"

It's lovely when dinner guests ask what they can bring. At the same time, it's tricky figuring out what to tell them. Deep down, we always want fresh flowers to brighten up our house (if any of our ...

Entertaining Tip: Use Cloth Napkins

We can't count how many times we've heard, "Ooooh, fancy!" as guests unfold cloth napkins into their laps at our dinner parties. Really, cloth napkins aren't so fancy. At least, we don't think they ...