Just wanted to remind all you hostesses to get photo's of your food for your parties. We sure could use a lot more pictures of our food spreads. After Halloween we could make an album of food pictures, it sure would help other members to be able to see what some of these spreads look like!
Advice: Since its the most craziest time just before your guests arrive & you are putting your food out, either have your camera ready to go or have a friend that will take the photo's for you.
this is an excellent idea and if we could take pictures of not just the whole spread, but maybe individual items that are esecially good then we could have a thread with a breakdown of different food categories, drinks, appetizers, main course, desserts, soups and those could event get broken down that would help out a lot of people who are new or just wanting a specific idea.
great idea, everyone is always on the lookout for new recipes or new ways of displaying the food. we took heaps of photos of our food last year before it disappeared, would love to see how everyone else chooses to display their different recipes
I almost always forget to take pics of the food. In 2007 and 2008, I kept a camera in the kitchen with me, and took pics while I was preparing it. That way I also had pics of how I made things, for my future recipe page. Half the time, we always end up getting pictures of the leftovers.... Not as visually stimulating LOL
It was a heavenly raspberry trifle with heavy cream under the "Kitty Litter" that a good friend made... We got to keep a large portion of it since there seemed to be so much left over. It was delicious!
I have always forgotten to take pictures until last year.. and even then I only caught the beginnings of it (the food is my favorite part of the party!)
I have photo's of almost all the food I made but we had a very small area for food to be set out. The rest of the house was so full of decorations there was no where to put the food so we just set it on the kitchen counters. The pictures are in my web site in all the food sections.
Muffy, your site has an incredible amount of recipes! I wll have to try... I imagine being a professional chocolatier, must be so creative and fun....neat!
... thanks for posting
This is a very good idea, seems like the food is always overlookedas far as getting pictures and it is so important. I will have to get some pics of mine this year.
This is a great idea. Even for the older members to get new inspiration I reckon.
I love seeing how everyone displays their food in such a lovely manner.
Never heard of kitty litter cookies..just kitty litter "cake" i made it one year for work...alot of ppl rant and raved over it..i even wonder who took the "pan" home??hmmm
V_gan, That is awesome, my gf and i are having our first Halloween party this year, and were both vegetarians. I was fretting so bad that there was nothing vegetarian/Vegan that our meat eating aquantinces would enjoy, lol. If you don't mind me asking what did you use for the vegetable wraps? you've inspired me. lol And Frankies_girl I am in love with the kitty litter cake! What was the topping of it? looks to me like parmesan?
V_gan, That is awesome, my gf and i are having our first Halloween party this year, and were both vegetarians. I was fretting so bad that there was nothing vegetarian/Vegan that our meat eating aquantinces would enjoy, lol. If you don't mind me asking what did you use for the vegetable wraps? you've inspired me. lol
Thanks! I would say about 80-90% of our guests are omnivores, with the rest either being vegetarian or vegan. Everyone loved the food! As long as the food you're making isn't obviously vegan or vegetarian (like including faux meat), the omnivore guests will never even second guess anything. If your food looks and tastes good enough, most won't even notice the absence of meat. I had tofu in the stuffed mushrooms, and non-dairy cream cheese in the spinach dip and vegetable wraps. Everyone loved them, and they were the first to go!
And no one will ever notice if you replace the milk and eggs in baked goods. There is also animal-free gelatin available if you're looking to make any jell-o molds.
2 quarts (2 liters) unsweetened cranberry juice
6 cups (1.5 liters) water
2 cups (440 ml) white grape juice concentrate
Organic sugar to taste
4 sticks cinnamon
10 whole cloves
Lemon slices
Combine all the ingredients in a large stockpot. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes. Remove the spices and float lemon slices in the punch.
For an informal approach, have a long-handled ladle in a spoon-rest nearby, and serve from the stovetop. Keep the punch warm on low heat. Serve in paper or styrofoam hot cups.
Alternatively, carefully and slowly pour the punch into a punch bowl and place on a heat-protected table or countertop. Serve in small glass punch cups.
V -gan.... you are very inspiring. I'm gluten intolerant, have a meat allergy & have to watch the sugar intake. I still cook for everyone else & usually have just my chicken breast. I'm just coming to terms with this after being a lifetime cook of all kinds of ethnic foods plus a baker. Now I'm starting to take each thing I eat & change the recipes to ingredients I can take. I'm still in denial a little bit but when I eat the foods I can't have the pain in my feet & hands would knock your socks off.