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Dinner Parties

  1. Home Games

    Generally speaking, hosting a dinner parties, i.e. home games, tend to be easier because you're already at home and don't need to worry about the expense or effort of booking a baby sitter.  Read more

  2. Keeping The House In Reasonable Order

    OK. As bebe gets older, there will be a proliferation of toys, courtesy of your friends, and relatives/enemies. All sorts of toys.  One piece toys. Toys with multiple components.  Read more

  3. Dinner Party Priorities

    This includes providing the sense that they're having an evening out with other grown-ups, socializing and talking grown-up stuff.  Keep it all fun.  Read more

  4. Be Careful With The Baby Monitor

    They're great fun because you're able to hear developing vocal cords get quite the workout in the broad range of sounds that humans are capabale of making but which narrows as we acquire language.  Read more

  5. Throw a Dinner Party

    It's fun, and even using really good ingredients, it's still far less expensive than going out.   Read more



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PictureAppetizers and Cocktail Nosh
(11 Recipes)
Everyone likes appetizers, they're a popular item on every restaurant menu.  Making your own will allow you to do way better than any box restaurant, impress your guests, and add a necessary ingredient to cocktail hour.  Cocktail nosh and dinner appetizers are often interchangable.
PictureCocktails
(8 Recipes)
It's Miller time!  There comes a time, seldom for some but more frequently for others, to catch a cool, mellow buzz, shoot the shit, discuss the news of the day, and have a chuckle.  Ignore the stupid it's-five-o'clock-somewhere schtick and designate an early evening time frame for some drinks and snacks.  Be civilized, have some respect for yourself, and have some respect for your cocktail.
PictureMain Courses
(12 Recipes)
Many of these recipes for first courses, main courses, and sides are suitable for serving guests, and usually can be made for daily consumption.  Most are inexpensive, and offer a broad degree of latitude for experimentation and adjustment to taste, and will provide leftovers. With some practice, trial and error, a few mistakes, and some attention to detail, it's amazing what can be made at home.
PictureSoups, Sides, and Small Plates
(15 Recipes)
Soup typically makes a good first course.  And main courses need side dishes, too. 
PictureEarly Education
(9 Recipes)
Kid can be taught to eat other things besides chicken tenders and hot dogs.  And why shouldn't they?  For one thing, if they're eating what everyone else is, that's less stuff to buy at the supermarket.  They'll also learn to be less picky. 
PictureWaste Not Want Not
(8 Recipes)
These recipes are all made from the dregs of other ingredients or by-products of other dishes.  Think of them as modified leftovers.  Think of it as getting a free meal or two each month.   
PictureBasics, Background, and Sauces
(8 Recipes)
Basic stocks, soup bases, dressings, and buidling blocks for re-use.  Most of it is from things that might have been thrown away.  At the end of the day, much of this will help you to make food that's cheaper, more nutritious, and generally better for you than buying the finished product in a store.  There will be some effort involved, but then anything of value requires some effort.