The Mis Quince is also known as the La Quinceanera and is a gigantic family and friends celebration of your child’s 15th birthday. You may have planned a parade down to the local church where you can attend a special service and your daughter can formally accept her new roll of adulthood.
Hosting a New Year’s Eve Party can be great fun. It’s a way to reminisce with friends, and to look forward to what the new year will bring. Here are some ideas for food and drinks to start you off:
New Year’s Eve offers plenty of parties with friends and family to celebrate another year. You will find there are many menu options for New Year’s Eve. Most of these options include a lot of champagne, wine or beer depending on your preferences. You will also want to include plenty of items to eat. If you are having an informal party you may just get cold cut platters, cheese platters, vegetable platters, and many chips and dips to share. Or you could have a full scale meal with a potluck dinner for you and your friends. Here are a few other ideas:
Passover is an important holiday to many individual’s and families. Your family may have a traditional Passover recipe you have had for years or you may be looking to start your own traditions. Whatever you wish to do, here are a few ideas to start with:
Typically Passover meals start with Matzo Ball soup or Chicken Soup. Dinners usually include slow roasted brisket, stuffed chicken, or potato Kugel. For dessert you may find Mandelbread, Oatmeal cookies, brownies, or Apple Cinnamon Kugel.
Mardi Gras is a tradition of the French culture. In America we have made a large celebration out of the holiday by having street parties, drinking and plenty of food available. Here is just a sample:
In New Orleans were the biggest Mardi Gras party is held you will find Gumbo, Jambalaya, Seafood, and lots of Bloody Mary’s on the list. These will well and truly get the party underway.
Bob the Builder is a construction themed kids show, that aims to introduce children to the standard friendship and learning concepts, as well as the addition of a few basic engineering concepts. So of course, the key color your theme should have is yellow, the color of construction equipment. Any toy construction equipment you happen to have on hand would go great with this theme, as well as anything similar to stacks of lumber, or most any of what you’d see around actually construction. Just make sure that you don’t include anything dangerous like actual tools unless you’re certain that nothing will happen.
Nascar Racing is growing in popularity amongst fans of all ages and both genders. It’s not just a men’s sport anymore. Now the women are getting involved in the sport as fans and as drivers! You’re little ones are probably turning out to be big Nascar fans like their parents are too. In fact, a Nascar themed party menu can be just the thing for that next racing event.
Thanksgiving is a time where all the family traditions come out to share with friends and family. Here are a few tips for planning your celebration:
Many people spend the day, or more often just the afternoon, preparing their Thanksgiving meal. This meal generally includes the turkey, beets, mashed potatoes, stuffing, dinner rolls, candied yams, and of course dessert.
Hanukkah is an eight- day celebration during December that begins on Kislev. There are many different types of foods you may find on the menu during these eight days. Here are just a few:
Menus may include Flaming Tea, Sweet Italian Bolo, Gingerbread house, Menorah Cake, Turkish Nut Cake, and Chicken for a main meal. Most of the menu items will be fried, whether they’re sweet or savory.
Cinco de Mayo is rapidly becoming a huge holiday in America. We celebrate the holiday in Spanish classes; we also have many parties in Florida, California, and New Mexico. Many of the larger towns around the United States are also celebrating Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo originated in Mexico as a way to celebrate a victory in Puebla. Wherever you live, Cinco de Mayo is a holiday worth celebrating, and you might like to use some of the following ideas to keep your guests well-fed:
Book clubs are a great way to get friends and families together and catch up on reading. Whether you are into non-fiction, romance, how-to’s or fantasy; a book club can quench your thirst for reading. However, when you gather everyone together for that weekly or monthly book club party, you may find that the guests are in need of something a little more substantial than tomes and poems. That’s where this handy book club menu comes in.
