Dear Friends, As we wrap up our Covid entertaining series, I want to encourage you that for those who want to keep our traditions, we can! A cocktail buffet is a very traditional and beautiful way to entertain during the holidays, especially for Christmas. Perhaps as I mentioned in last week’s newsletter, you may want…
Dear Friends, With Thanksgiving on the horizon, we continue our Covid holiday entertaining series. As I suggested in two of our “Ten Steps to Effortless Covid Entertaining” … “Get creative and think outside the box.” and “Gather outside as much as possible.” In this newsletter, EE offers two menus and recipes perfect for outdoor gatherings…
Dear Friends, If Ina loves to serve soup … let’s all serve soup! Thank you for your wonderful responses to last week’s newsletter with EE’s Ten Steps to Effortless Covid Entertaining and to Sunday’s video featuring our Bloody Marys and Chili birthday lunch. For that lunch, we told everyone to dress warmly so that we could be…
Dear Friends, So many of you have asked about entertaining with family and friends during the holidays with COVID continuing to be a serious concern. What a quandary! When asking about EE recently, many have said things like, “Wow, I guess no one is entertaining.” While we are not entertaining the way we did pre-COVID, many of…
Dear Friends, Thank you for your wonderful emails and comments in response to last week’s newsletter. Stay tuned as we work on your ideas! In the meantime … it’s football season! Even with no fans and fake crowd noise, we are still watching football! As always, we’re watching our team, and we’re probably watching yours…
Dear Friends, The fall always brings a sense of renewal and energy! Fall brings structure and also excitement. What can we plan and do? So it is with EE too! I’m giving thought to how I can better serve our EE community and what continued offerings help you the most! I’d like to hear from you….
Dear Friends, Just in time for Labor Day fun … the perfect and super easy Cosmopolitan Cocktail. Beautiful and not too sweet, it will style up your Labor Day festivities! In this video, good friends JR Richardson and his daughter, Forest, show us just how effortless it is to make this cocktail at home. With…
Dear Friends, Well … while making blueberry muffins this past weekend, I realized that I never posted this video from Memorial Day weekend with a quick tip for making muffins! Blueberry season has passed, but we can still buy blueberries and that means you can still make these delicious blueberry muffins. You’ll be glad…