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DIY Phyllo Cup Appetizer Bar
When I have parties, I like to make A LOT of appetizers. I mean, in all honestly, 50% of my motivation to even host parties is to have the chance to make and eat a lot of appetizers. The other 50% is...
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Antipasto Salad Endive Boats
Have you tried cooking with endive at home? It’s a leafy green that, believe it or not, belongs to the daisy family. I see it occasionally in restaurants, but don’t often see home cooks using it....
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Grilled Stone Fruit with Pomegranate Syrup
PAMA Liqueur and I go way way back. I remember stocking my “bar” with it in the years after college, so I could feel like a real grownup by serving pomegranate cocktails in fancy martini glasses to my...
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Grilled Lamb Sandwich Platter
A few times a month, I assemble what I call a “platter dinner.” Sometimes it’s premeditated (like this one) and other times it’s literally just filling a big cutting board with all of the odds and...
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Summer Cheese & Charcuterie Board with Spicy Peach Chutney
I’m so completely smitten with my new house in a million ways. There’s just one thing I can’t stand. Somewhere along the way in the last 90 years, somebody painted 75% of the trim in this house a...
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Build-Your-Own Meatball Sub Platter
Disclosure: This Build-Your-Own Meatball Sub Platter was created by me on behalf Johnsonville® as part of a sponsored post for Socialstars. Sponsored posts help me pay for the costs associated with...
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7 Tips for an Easy Brunch Buffet
While I’ll always love a sangria party with badminton tournaments late into the night, brunch get-togethers certainly have their own charm, especially during the holiday season. The food and drink...
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Smoked Salmon Crostini Bar
Nothing makes my eyes light up at a party like seeing a big spread of appetizers. My absolute favorite kind? The ones that you get to assemble yourself. If your group of friends and family is anything...
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Cheese Board for Beer
Anybody that knows my husband and I knows that we love beer. Our favorite restaurant (a short walk from our house) is really a beer bar that happens to have great food. Jeff brews his own beer, and is...
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DIY Spring Salad Board
I’ve mentioned quite frequently that one of my favorite ways to entertain (or heck, even prepare a dinner for just two people) is with DIY platters. Pile a bunch of great ingredients onto a cutting...
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Feta Terrines with Spring Vegetables
Fun fact: both houses I’ve owned have come with random culinary delights already growing in the yard. My first house had out-of-control mulberry trees, and a single very oddly placed garlic plant. My...
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Grilled Avocado Crostini Board
Here in Michigan, we take eating and entertaining outdoors pretty seriously in the summer months. It’s because we can’t take it for granted. It’s not like we have mild temperatures all year – a...
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Autumn Cheese Board with Ginger Pickled Figs
Hi hi hi! I made us another epic cheese board. I’ve been absolutely obsessed with early fall produce lately. It’s not quite time for fall squash and pumpkin yet, but it IS time for figs and concord...
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Spinach Dip in Mini Pumpernickel Bowls
If you grew up attending parties where the centerpiece of the snack buffet was a giant hollowed-out loaf of pumpernickel bread filled to the brim with creamy spinach dip . . . you might be from the...
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Winter Cheese Board with German Beer Cheese Fondue
So lately, it’s become apparent that cheese boards are something of a hobby / passion project for me. If I have a week where I don’t have much client work going on, my grocery cart is subconsciously...
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Winter Citrus Parfait Bar
Today, I have a Winter Citrus Parfait Bar to share with you guys, or, as my husband likes to call it, a “Choose Your Own Adventure Yogurt Parfait.” Anybody else remember those “Choose Your Own...
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Epic Game Day
Alright friends, we’ve done the salad. We’ve done the yogurt and granola. It’s been a healthful start to the year. Let’s look forward to our first splurge. The big game, coming up in early February....
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Toasted Ravioli Nachos
OK, so before I even talk to you guys about this recipe, please know that my husband is trying to make the word “ravilachos” happen. He doesn’t think “ravioli nachos” is catchy enough, and he just...
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Pizza Crostini Bar
I may have already shared all of the recipes from Epic Game Day, but we still have a few more days until the game. And secretly, I was pretty disappointed that I didn’t get anything pizza-related onto...
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Banh Mi Nachos
One of my favorite go-to meals lately has been “lazy banh mi.” Mind you, this is nowhere close to an authentic version of the classic Vietnamese sandwich. Let’s put it this way: it’s just a lazy...
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