Prepare Dinner for Six In One Hour..

I love this regular column that features in the Telegraph - this is a dinner party for six prepared in an hour for less than £30 in total.

A dinner party doesn't have to be laborious to prepare - you can do it quickly and inexpensively but still serve sensational food.. This is Annie Nichols' meal plan:

Starter - Watercress soup with Parmesan cream
Main Course - Teriyaki Salmon
Pudding - Almond Crescents

Cheat's dinner party - Telegraph

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Easy Smoked Salmon Appetizer

You will find many unique dinner party ideas right here. But today, you may want to check out a video on how to prepare an easy smoked salmon appetizer:



Stay tuned for more dinner party ideas soon.

Randa
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Go Green and Throw an Eco-friendly Dinner Party

If you want a dinner party idea with a difference, try throwing an eco-friendly dinner party as this article suggests. Show your friends you care about our environment and educate them at the same time.

Throw an eco-friendly dinner party| Sheknows.com

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On top of buying organic cooking inredients, coffees, teas and wines, you'll find five tips to make your eco-friendly dinner party a success!

Stay tuned for more dinner party ideas soon.

Randa
The Hostess with the Mostess

Be a thoughtful dinner party host or hostess

Today's dinner party idea is simple and can make your guests feel really special.

It made such an impression on me some time back when a new acquantance asked my partner and I our favorite foods when we accepted an invitation to dinner. It made us feel rather special actually.

She also asked if there was anything we couldn't eat. That is foods that we dislike, are allergic to or can't tolerate well.

It's great to have this information at hand when planning your menu. If you know someone loves a particular food like chicken - then if you make a chicken dish you can't go wrong..

Stay tuned for more dinner party ideas soon.

Randa
The Hostess with the Mostess

Dinner parties are making a comeback

I do agree that dinner parties are making a comeback and that's what drives me to
share the dinner party ideas I have gathered over many years. Here's an excerpt from the article anyway:

"To have a dinner party today you have to give up the notion that your house has to be clean, that your children have to be asleep and that the food has to be perfect," Burnette says. "People don't entertain because they think everything has to be this Martha Stewart set."

Pacific Daily News - www.guampdn.com - Hagatna, GU

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Stay tuned for more dinner party ideas soon.

Randa
The Hostess with the Mostess

Dinner by candle light

My partner and I participated in Earth Hour and I was reminded about how lovely a candle light dinner party can be.

This doesn’t have to be a purely romantic dinner idea – rather, this can provide a wonderful ambience for your next dinner party with guests.

I once went to a 50th birthday party and the path to their front door was lit be tea candles the whole way – there were hundreds of them and it made such an impression. There was no mistaking that we had gone to the right venue!

You can do the same – light the whole path leading to your front door or fill your outdoor entertaining area with candles. Of course you can also buy inexpensive Chinese lanterns to create the atmosphere. I have stayed in Fiji and Vanuatu and these outdoor dinners will always stay in mind..

But if your dinner party is indoors - light your room with candles. What an amzing variety we now have to choose from.

Stay tuned for more dinner party ideas soon.

In the meantime, check out how convenient it is to order your stock of tea candles:



Randa
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Back from Japan

I am recently back from an amazing holiday in Japan. On top of visiting the sites, I enjoyed eating out at some amazing restaurants with some wonderful hosts and trying very authentic Japnese food that I'd never tried before. The way their food was presented was breath-taking. Of course I am always on the look out for new dinner party ideas and I had a host of ideas come to mind.

A common dinner experience in my travels was eating at restauarnts where diners had a high level of involvement in the preparation of their meal. It was so much fun. Here are just a couple of photos..

This is one of our hosts Yoshiko showing us what to do at the local Tepanyaki restaurant:



And this next photo is at a bar where we got to prepare our own sukiyaki dish:



A fellow delegate member spoke of her own dinner parties here in Sydney where she serves a dish called Shabu Shabu. This is a Japnese dish that takes only around 10 minutes to prepare - and it's a great dinner party idea.

It's one of Japan’s most popular dishes and is "a glorified fondue". It consists of paper-thin slices of raw beef and raw vegetables, cooked by each diner at the table in a pot of hot broth. I have found a recipe for you.

Stay tuned for more dinner party ideas soon.

In the meantime, check out this Shabu Shanu pot:



Randa
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