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By: Cassie | Bake Your Day

Cassie | Bake Your Day — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:42:25 +0000

This is incredibly amazing, Sandy! I have never thought about removing the top of the cheese wheel and then putting it back on to bake. Love it!

By: Leighann

Leighann — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:43:19 +0000

This recipe looks great! I love fall because everyone starts using cranberries.

By: Curtis & Sherrie

Curtis & Sherrie — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:33:30 +0000

We are a 4 on this scale. We often entertain impromptu, but to be honest it is usually after we have had a dinner party and the house is still in relative good standing. Not that our house is not always in good standing, but when we have dinner parties we go the extra mile, fresh flowers, etc. This past week end we invited 2 of our most cherished friends Cesar and Tami over for a small dinner party just the 4 of us. We hardly ever get to just sit and visit the 4 of us. So we got out our tried and true recipe of Mexican Lasgana, and used 2 new recipes for a salad and dessert. The evening was wonderful. Then on Sunday I told my wife we need to invite some people over I am going to try that new soup recipe from My Sweet Savannah blog. So a few calls were made and we had another dinner party, with soup, salad and dessert. It was fun and we totally enjoyed ourselves. Mind you there was one new recipe failure, I had cut out a bread recipe from our local news paper for fresh baguettes. It looked so good and sooooo easy….. um yeah, oh yeah I must tell you I have never baked bread in my life, my wife is the baker in our family. But I thought I can do this NOT, the bread did not rise, it was just a HUGE lump of dough laying in the bowl…… no worries I just made cheesy biscuits to serve and all was well. I tell you all this because even seasonsed entertainers, and my wife and I are seasoned entertainers, have failures in the kitchen. It is not the failure that defines us, it is what we do with it that counts. I told the story over dinner we all had a great laugh and all was well…. Make your entertaining easy, put on a pot of soup cut up some store bought french bread and enJOY, the fellowship, the laughs, the bonding that only happens around a dinner table!
Blessings to you and yours
Curtis & Sherrie

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:30:13 +0000

I would say I’m about a 4. I cringe at the idea of impromptu but in reality, that’s mostly what we do.

Tips:

1) Always keep some nuts in the house. When all else fails, a bowl of nuts makes people happy. Cheese and fruit come in second. And if you don’t have much of them, put them all together on a plate like you did and it looks special.

2) Whatever you do, DON’T keep apologizing for things (the food, the mess, etc.). People know they are dropping in unplanned. Just focus on welcoming them in a gracious manner. Don’t let them feel they are stressing you out. If it’s really about the company, then be good company! They will go home happy, I promise.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:09:12 +0000

4… but I am going to work on this! :) I want to entertain more!

By: Kirstin

Kirstin — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:36:04 +0000

Hmmmm… I would say a 3 1/2, mainly because I don’t often have things on hand in the kitchen to serve for impromptu get togethers, simply because of grocery budget issues, I buy what we need and what I have planned for. I suppose I could “plan” ahead for potential “impromptu” gatherings (C: