A Hot Dog Bar for Game Day
Fall sports are under way and whether you are homegating or tailgating you can celebrate in style.
A Hot Dog Bar is a simple way to go, and is bound to please everyone from kids to adults.
Here are my tips:
How to Set Up an Easy Burger Bar at Home
I'm all for quick and easy when it comes to dinnertime and with a couple of extra teenage boys in the house at the moment serve-yourself bars are the easiest way to feed them.
I like to keep things fairly simple with my food bars, but still give quite a few options, especially for picky eaters. For example my little man loves wheat bread, but baby girl is going through a white bread only phase. One of the teenagers can't eat cheddar cheese so I wanted a few extra options for cheese he could eat, and I'm a lover of sweet potato fries, but am definitely in the minority being surrounded by lovers of regular potato fries.
Summer Entertaining with Lipton
Over the summer when we aren't out and about, more often than not you will find us by the pool in our backyard. When it's hot out and you don't want those little wet feet pitter-pattering through the house to the kitchen, and you have guests popping over, having beverages at the ready is a must.
How to Host a Pizza Party
We love entertaining, and a couple of weeks ago it was my husbands birthday and although he wasn't home that week, we decided to have a belated celebration with friends last weekend while he was home. I didn't want to spend the whole night in the kitchen, so we set up a pizza bar for our guests. The kids had so much fun designing their own pizza's, and for dessert I made a chocolate fudge cake covered in chocolate chip cookies; chocolate chip cookies are my husbands favorite dessert, but it's not a celebration without cake, so I combined the two.
How To: Host A Sub Lunch Bar (and a giveaway)
UPDATE: This giveaway has ended. The winner of the $300 gift card is Kathy Murphy. Congratulations!
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I am always looking for new ways to feed guests who come over, and more importantly feed both adults and children without making a lot of different dishes. I don't want to spend the entire time in the kitchen. Quite often my husband will grill and I will whip up a few sides, but I like to mix it up, especially when the same group of friends come over regularly, I don't want to be seen as too predictible with what they will be fed. So recently we put together a Sub Lunch Bar.
We went with 4 different types of subs: Pizza, Chicken Alfredo, Meatballs, and Vegetarian.
This is what we put out:
A Pasta Bar
We love pasta in our house. Ask Marisol what she would like for dinner any day of the week and she would tell you pasta, her favorite being Penne. The hardest thing I find with serving pasta for dinner is taking out certain ingredients from dishes to suit each person.
I'm also a huge fan of getting the kids involved in the kitchen. We normally have one night a week where it's a 'make your own' night. Whether it be putting your own toppings on pizza, or making tacos or burritos. So last night I decided to set up a pasta bar in the kitchen and let everyone choose their pasta, their toppings and their sauce. Everyone loved it. For the first time there was no-one picking out what they didn't want to eat, no-one complaining about the type of pasta I used and everyone ate all of their dinner.
Ice-Cream Sundae Night
As part of Hershey's Summer Celebrations, we decided to have an ice-cream sundae night.
The twins and I shopped at Wal-Mart for our ingredients and hubby played the ice-cream man. Armed with our marble ice-cream board and scoops he took orders like a champ.
Toppings: Hershey's Chocolate, Strawberry and Caramel Syrup; Hershey's Cookies 'n Creme; Hundreds & Thousands; Reece's Pieces; Hershey's Dark Chocolate Pieces; Kit-Kat, Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Pieces; Oreo Golden and Chocolate wafer straws.