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Top Five Ways to Cut Holiday Entertaining Stress
If the thought of holiday entertaining creates more stress than satisfaction, here's help. Cut down on holiday hassles with these five timesaving tips for simple but sensational holiday cooking.
Spruce Up Your Holiday Entertaining
Looking for a little glitz to spruce up your holiday entertaining? You may already have all the trimmings you need right in your own home. This is one of the first places Annie Williamson looks when developing new decorating ideas to capture the magic of the holidays. As a designer for Replacements, Ltd., the world's largest supplier of old and new china, crystal, silver and collectibles, it's not only her job to deck the showroom, but also to help customers come up with their own unique twists to add seasonal glow. Here are a few decorating tips to find items in your own home and turn them into dazzling decorating pieces.
Best Ways to Organize Your Kitchen for Holiday Entertaining
Shopping, wrapping, prepping, cooking, and cleaning are time-consuming activities any time of year, but these tasks reach a new level of intensity as harbingers of the holiday season. The very thought of the hubbub that approaches with cooler weather and Halloween treats and ends with the remnants of New Year's confetti is enough to put even the most prepared and placid among us on edge. But, if you get a jumpstart now, devoting a day or two to preparing your home, you'll ease into the celebratory cycle with a lot less stress than ever before and enjoy the festive mood that permeates the atmosphere October through January.
Throwing the Perfect Holiday Bash
As the holiday season approaches, it's time to hang the lights, dust off the china, pull out your favorite recipes and get set to throw the perfect bash.
Holiday Banquet Basics
Gone are the days of scanning the barnyard for the fattest fowl on the farm. Nowadays, turkeys come frozen, thawed, pre-cooked, organic, smoked, fried, glazed, sliced and diced. Despite the luxuries today, the pressure's still on to plan ahead for a memorable, home-cooked holiday feast. Getting started, you'll want to make sure to have these essentials on hand.
Quick and Easy Ideas for Holiday Entertaining
Blame it on the cocooning and hiving trends or the influx of decorating shows and shelter books, but one thing is clear - people are opening their doors more than ever to friends and family and expressing their creativity through home entertainment. And with home entertaining peaking between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, home entertainers are already feeling the pressure to execute the perfect party.
Throw the perfect holiday party. and enjoy it too!
Attending parties is a highlight of the holiday season, but hosting. that's another story. FINE LIVING, a new television network dedicated to inspiring viewers to live better, offers hints on how to have fun while entertaining guests.
Party Planning Quick Tip: Holiday confection, Italian-style
Italian hospitality has perfected the art of making sweet treats, so if you want to be sure that all your holiday party cakes, cookies and chocolates are of mouth-watering quality, here is a dessert table sampling, courtesy of Excelsior Foods, a leader in imported baked goods and confection.
Entertaining Tips: Serve Italian sweets to your guests
At Christmas parties in Italy, a slice of panettone may be served with a glass of spumante. Or you may also be offered chocolate with a glass of champagne. Try both. The blended flavours are out of this world.
Entertaining Holiday Ideas: Countertop cooking appliances
Just in time for the holiday season, Cuisinart Canada has launched a unique assortment of brushed stainless steel Countertop Cooking Appliances.
