Pull up a chair — this is where I keep my entertaining and hosting ideas: party menus, potlucks, cookouts, holiday gatherings, drinks for a crowd, and everything I make when I’m feeding a houseful.
This fall brunch menu feeds eight to twelve people, and almost none of it happens the morning of. It is one of the six menus from the cookbook I am writing right now — Brunches, Luncheons & Tea Parties — and I wanted to hand you a whole one, not a teaser. The menu, the…
Side dishes for a crowd are the part of the meal I think about hardest. The main dish is usually decided before I ever get to the kitchen — it is the sides that turn one pan of something into an actual supper. These are the seventeen I make on repeat when there are a…
Desserts for a crowd have a different job than a fancy dessert does. It does not need to be plated. It needs to cut into twenty-five squares, survive a car ride, and still taste good sitting on a table for two hours while everybody finishes their supper. These are the twenty-five I actually make when…
Casseroles for a crowd are the reason dinner happens at my house most nights. When you are feeding seven people, and around here it is usually more than seven, one hot 9×13 pan is the whole answer. These are the eighteen my family actually asks for, pulled out of everything on this site. Not the…
A good cookout party doesn’t have to mean three days in the kitchen — or a Saturday you spend wishing you’d just ordered pizza. After years of feeding a crowd in our backyard here in Florida, I’ve figured out there are really two ways to throw one: the easy, mostly store-bought way, and the homemade…
Not Fancy. Just the Kind of Food Everyone Gathers Around For. A cookout for a crowd is the meal I default to when I want everyone full and happy without spending the whole day in the kitchen. Burgers and hot dogs on the grill, a long table of sides, condiments lined up so people can…
DIY drinks have been one of the best changes I’ve made for our grocery budget — and I’m showing you exactly how I do it. With seven people in our house, all adults and teenagers now, the drink situation was getting expensive fast. I can make a whole gallon of sweet tea for 55 cents….
Throwing a couples bridal shower on a budget doesn’t mean sacrificing beauty — and this one is proof. As a pastor’s wife for 33 years, I have hosted more showers than I can count, and I feel like I finally have it down to a science. For this celebration, the bride chose shades of green,…
Hosting Easter lunch for 30 people is tomorrow and I am ready, y’all. I want to pull back the curtain and show you exactly how I do this — because I promise it is less stressful than it sounds. I have been hosting big holiday meals for decades and I have learned a few things…
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