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Dinner Party Menu & Wines

June 23rd, 2009

We recently hosted another in our series of dinner parties, this time for 7 people.  The planning stages for the party followed the general trend laid out in our first posts - a few weeks before we decided on our invites, followed by some broad menu planning before ironing out the nitty gritty details in the final days before the party.  Then on the big day itself we went off to Whole Foods, shopping list in hand, and lugged six full bags of raw ingredients back to our apartment.  The lugging and the effort cooking was well worth it as this was one of our best parties yet.  Here is what we served:

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February 2009 Dinner Party: Menu

March 5th, 2009

This dinner party was fairly Italian centric, featuring pizzas, bruschettas, chicken, apple crisp and more.

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Anatomy of a Dinner Party

March 5th, 2009

Our planning for a dinner party begins roughly two weeks before the actual party. There are two important decisions to get out of the way before the more nitty-gritty planning can start:

  • Who are the invites
  • What is the culinary theme of the dinner

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