‘Tis the Season for imbibing, indulging, and ingesting all manner of fabulous food stuffs, but our favorite thing about holiday food is sharing it with family and friends. More specifically, The Sisterhood. The Sisterhood can throw some fantastic parties which means we break out the fancy clothes (read: no yoga pants allowed), ditch the kiddos, and pull out the industrial-strength hair products. If we are pulling out the blow-dryer, we mean business. So, without further ado, we bring you. . .
10 Things Holiday Party Food
1. On Dancer, on Prancer, on Brewsky, and Guinness!
One of the best things about a party is the drinks. And one of the best things about Erin perusing Pinterest is that she’s actually interested in getting her craft on. How do you think this self-professed non-crafter did with the Reindeer Beer?
2. Cheers!
Maybe beer isn’t your thing. Truly, you need all the gastric vacancy possible so you can stuff your pie hole with all of the yumminess yet to come. Well, a great host, maybe someone like this man . . .
. . . will make you a pomegranate martini . . . in a margarita glass.
3. Hors d’oeuvres!
Appetizers are our favorites. In fact, we love them so much, we’ll forget to take pictures until after we’ve eaten our final crudité. We are certain that the martinis . . . and Guinness . . . and wine had nothing to do with the oversight.
Imagine perfectly seared tuna, scrumptious stuffed mushrooms, and a Tavern-on-the-Green-worthy beauty of a cheese board because all we can show you is the aftermath. Maybe a swarm of locusts blew through when we weren’t looking.
4. Crab cakes and tenderloin and roasted veggies! Oh my!
5. The food does not get into your belly on its own, People!
You saw what happened to the appetizers! You CANNOT assume there will be seconds. Hostess extraordinaire, Mary, to the rescue. We didn’t have to limit ourselves to a plate of food. We got a tray-full!
6. Everyone needs an Erin at their party.
There is no charm school on this green earth that can teach this. You either have it or you don’t.
7. Cleanse your visual palette with dessert.
We do apologize that you can’t un-see Erin’s “see-food,” but how about this little darling of a dessert to bring your appetite back?
8. Fortify your cheer.
After all those carbs, a buzz can really start to lag. Time to move onto a Raspberry Vodka Seltzer.
9. Perform a spot inspection on the drink master.
Yeah, that’s right. Ellen’s drink was mixed on the top of the trashcan out of a stainless steel water bottle. Know what she did about it? Taunted everybody that she got the last one as she sucked that refreshing goodness down. She may or may not have broken out of that charm school we were mentioning. We’ll never tell.
10. Bonus Recipe: The Other Chocolate Cookie.
What do you get when you bake one trillion cakes for your daughter’s birthday? Besides the accolades of your adoring family, you get a completely decimated baker’s pantry. This can be a huge problem when you have to make chocolate cookies NOW and you have no time to run to the store. While Ellen is still a devoted fan of the beloved Tollhouse cookie (And so is Erin! This recipe inspires her kids to say this about her) sometimes you have to work with what you got. Bisquick to the rescue!
Bisquick simplifies the ingredient list and it makes a dough that is made for speed. It has a drier texture than Tollhouse cookie dough so it is super easy to work with and get onto the pans. And these cookies barely spread so you can place them about one to one and a half inches apart, allowing you to bake more cookies at a time. These cookies are also a dream to get off of the pan. They easily come up with a spatula with nary a cookie lost to breakage. And the final perk? It transports so well! This is a sturdier cookie while still not being a hard.
As you can tell, we put food in its proper place in The Sisterhood, besides just our bellies, and we know how to wash it down too. Here’s a little “salut” from our peeps to yours this holiday season—an Irish Christmas blessing:
Nollaig faoi shéan is faoi shonas duit.
A prosperous and happy Christmas to you.
Full disclosure: Erin may have learned this blessing, NOT from her Irish father, but from the 24 bottles of Guinness she hot-glued antlers on.
We’re available for your festivities, too. Just contact us at 443-555-HAWT.
You two definitely are the best Hosts Ever!! you really know how to throw a party from start to finish. wow.
So, um….what time do we get there, and do I have to decorate my booze to get in? 🙂
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The credit goes to our friends Mary and Laura on this one. Truly. That’s why Erin had time to make the reindeer beer. 🙂 Ellen
But Erin’s house was the babysitting headquarters. Truly our party was a sisterhood effort…reindeer included:)
I baked the cookies at the end of this post for the kids. And provided a teenager. But still . . . 🙂 Ellen
That looks like a great party! I love that you photographed the appy trays after the food was gone. As I devoted fan of the appetizer, I can completely relate to eating first, documenting later. 🙂
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You can only work with what you remember to do. 🙂 Ellen
Hahahaha that last picture just nearly made me bust my stitches.
You ladies sure know how to have a good time. I’m waiting for my standing, open invitation to your awesomeness that is the Sisterhood.
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Waiting!?! Girl, you have had that standing invitation! Any. Time. Ellen
WOW…that is some dinner party!!! I always forget to take pictures until after the fact too. Oh and a margarita glass holds waaaaay more than a martini glass. ;P
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Tell me about it! 😉 Ellen
Love the reindeer beer…Ho ho ho
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The antlers just made it taste better. Ellen
That looks like it was some party! And now I’m starving lol
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I’m starving too. There weren’t any leftovers. 🙂 Ellen
Ya’ll know how to party! A tray? Brilliant. Mixing drinks on a trash can? Isn’t that normal? See-food? Gross. Great list, as always!
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I was seriously impressed with the trays. And the counters were crowded with all of the yummy food. I know you understand making do! 🙂 Ellen
So weird. I just tried to call that number to invite myself to your next party, and I got a hooker service. Girls, what are you not telling us readers??!! 😉 Seriously, though, like Alison I loved the last picture!
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We gotta pay for the blog some way. 🙂 But our success is in our advertising pictures. Take notes. Ellen
Ohmigosh a few years ago we concocted that same drink and called it the “Horny Elf” (but in front of our kids call it the “Happy Elf”….same thing, right?).
I wanna come to your parties! I’ll even let you mix my drink on the trashcan…
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Is a Horny Elf a Happy Elf? Let’s hope the world never knows. 🙂 Ellen
Ohhhh, I want to come to one of your parties! You guys are both festive and fun! 🙂
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We would love to have you! And from your post, it sounds like you could use a party! Ellen
Wow! I am going to start crashing your parties! Looks like lots of fun! I am loving the reindeer beer!
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No need to crash! Come on over! Ellen
You guys know how to throw a party!! The reindeer beer are adorable!
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I think the antlers made them taste better. 🙂 Ellen
I love those last pictures – hilarious. I have a feeling your parties are always fun 🙂
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We certainly entertain ourselves . . . and our friends are very generous in their tolerance of us. 🙂 Ellen
Hawt you two definitely are. I just got drunk and gained 10 pounds just from reading. Happy Holidays!
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Oh I hear you on the 10 lbs. Erin had put a funny ecard at the beginning of the post about the 10 lb thing and I made her take it down because I couldn’t stand thinking about it. Really. She was very generous about it. Ellen
So much fun! Your parties look like they really are worth crashing! And I wouldn’t even take one of those hardly-worked from reindeer beer, a pomegranate martini would suffice! =)
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They were yummy. Crash away. 🙂 Ellen
I love it that you had drinks on your food list! I’d love to come to one of your parties – I’d even be willing to wear a Santa hat!
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Speaking of drinks, we had a stack of deer antlers you could have borrowed! Ellen
Your party was so awesome that I forgot I attended it!! (Oh, maybe that was the martini, or the Guinness, or the vodka seltzer!) 🙂
I think I saw you there. Weren’t you the one in the Santa hat dancing on top of the bar, I mean, trashcan? Ellen
As a hospitality guy, I agree that a good host makes a world of difference.
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We bet you’re a great host, Wayne. As long as you’re not serving cruciferous veggies. 😉 Ellen
I would fly in from Italy to come party with you guys!
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No don’t do that. Let US come to YOU. 😉 Ellen
OMG! I love the “rein-beers!” I am *totally* doing that!
A vodka raspberry seltzer! That sounds delicious. Love, love these pics. Happy holidays to you ladies!!
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Thanks for stopping by Heidi! Happy Holidays to you, too!
#3 made me laugh so hard. I imagined the hor d’oeuvres pre-feeding frenzy and they looked amazing. Great job!
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We knew our readers had enough imagination to make this post work. 😉 Ellen
Mmm….I will say though, that despite the potential joy of drinking antlered Guiness (do you take the antlers off before quaffing?) might I suggest a French 75: fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, gin, chill, shake, and top of the glass with champagne. Ho freaking ho, people. And happy hols to some of the best sisters on the interwebz.
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And you have just confirmed what I always suspected, you are too classy for us. 🙂 In all seriousness, that sounds divine.
Some people drank with antlers, some sans antlers. I wish I had gotten a good picture. Ellen
What an awesome, hilarious, awesome list! I loved the Guiness reindeer. I need you ladies to throw a party for me!!!
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Thank you! But we’re really looking for more people to throw parties for us. 🙂 Ellen
You had me at cheese board.
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You guys throw the best parties! I wish I was cool enough to glue some reindeer beer together and be invited! I’ll have to call you to plan out my son’s birthday party!
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Ellen throws a mean kids’ party!
the guinness pics are my favorite! That was a total pinterest win. HAHAA.
HA! I was planning on doing that reindeer beer (reinbeer!) thing for Hubs this year. Ah, Pinterest, how I love thee.
And, BTW, my invite to your party must have gotten lost in the mail. I’ll forgive you this time.
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Wouldn’t a blogger’s party just be the best? I guess that’s what they call BlogHer. Do the reindeer beer. They are really cute, and if I can make them, anybody can. Erin
I am on my way!!! Any party that gives you tray and reindeer beer is a hoot for sure. Awesome stuff ladies!