Pinwheel Spiral Party Platters

Our usual plan to ring in the New Year is to get together with my sister and her young family. We play cards, drink sparkling cider and munch the night away. This year, plans may change at the last-minute. We won’t know the plans for New Year’s Eve until the evening before. So we are on standby mode.

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Christmas Appetizers – And the Winners Are . . .

It seems whenever I am planning a party, or attending a pot luck, I always run into the same problem – what do I make? It’s not a question of what so much as in a lack of ideas or inspiration. It’s more a struggle of narrowing things down to a reasonable amount of foods. There are times when I throw sensibility right out the window, and make everything. There are times when my guys rein me in with a firm “are you out of your mind?”

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Awesome Make-Ahead Snacks for Vegging-Out

How often do you find yourself vegging out in front of the TV with a big bag of chips and some store-bought dip? Your vegging all the way – shoes off, feet up, flipping around the channels and wondering if there is anything worth watching on the Boob-Tube (Kiddo always snickers when I call the TV a Boob-Tube).

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