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Default Ideas for Hosting a Cooking Party

On Feb 3, 3:12*pm, electric >
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> hello everyone,
> Cooking parties are fun and a great way to spend time with your friends.
> At the same time, you can learn cooking tips from others. In order to
> make everything to run smoothly, you need to organize the party very
> well. The main condition for nice, relaxing cooking parties is to have
> enough room and cooking tools for everyone.
>
> The first step is to pick the menu. Once you've decided what you will
> cook, you have to buy all the ingredients. Make sure you don't leave
> anything out. There is nothing more annoying than realizing, after you
> already started to cook, that you don't have everything you need. So,
> take a good look at the recipes and make a list with all the
> ingredients. Another thing to think about - tableware, pans, pots,
> tablecloths, napkins and other cooking utensils. If you don't have
> enough cooking tools and tableware for every one, you can either buy
> some more or you can simply borrow from friends the items you need. For
> setting the table, you can simply get some plastic or paper tableware.
>
> When planning a cooking party, you should select some quick and fun to
> do recipes - pizza, different pies, lasagna, grilled vegetables, and
> salads are great for cooking parties. Make it fun - for example, you can
> ask each friend invited to the cooking party to select his or her
> favorite ingredient (a variety of cheese, a vegetable, salami, sausages,
> even fruits or other unconventional toppings) and make a huge pizza with
> all those ingredients.
>
> Find a theme for your cooking party. For example, you can cook only
> things you can eat with your fingers - that's a really funny theme, and
> all your friends will appreciate the idea. There are a lot of foods you
> can eat with the fingers. Just get barbecue sticks and add little pieces
> of meat, shrimp, and vegetables. Arrange them on a pan and pop them into
> a preheated oven. In the mean time, you and your friends can start
> working on soups and salads or other side dishes.
>
> You can organize a very special cooking party, for your closest friends,
> around a cheese fondue pot. Cheese fondue is delicious, easy to make and
> fun to eat. There is a special tool for making cheese fondue, a pot
> placed on top of a heating source, but it's not mandatory for making
> fondue cheese. All you need is a good -quality nonreactive pan, your
> favorite type of cheese, and a bottle of white wine and some spices.
> Garlic works great for cheese fondue. Basically, all you have to do is
> to melt the cheese on low heat and to add the wine and the garlic.
> Prepare a large pot, to have enough for everyone, and ask your friends
> to put together some salads for the cheese. You can have the cheese with
> cubed bread, slices of apples or pears and grapes. You can serve it
> directly from the pot, but you need some sticks for the bread and
> fruits.
>
> So, next time you organize a cooking party, make sure you follow some of
> these great tips


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