Sentences with phrase «of dinner party guests»

With this witty, curvaceous gold creature lighting up your life, the striking candle holder will be sure to bring a smile to the dourest of dinner party guests.

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The prolific hostess is known around the Bay for her over-the-top dinner parties and Valentine's Day galas, which have over the years included a live elephant greeting guests at the door, a recreation of Woodstock, and a San Francisco Symphony concert on the lawn of her Atherton estate.

The best way I can describe the people we want is like this: There are some people who throw great dinner parties because they really want to take care of their guests, and there are other people who are lousy at it because everything is a chore, everything is a problem.

But taking off one's shoes upon arriving at an American dinner party would be a demonstration of disrespect, while an American host who asks guests to remove their shoes in order to preserve the cleanliness of the carpet is disrespectful to the guests, by showing more honor to his possessions than to them.

If, to use one of Jesus own analogies, the coming of the kingdom is like the start of a grand dinner party, then Jesus wants his followers to be like gracious hosts welcoming the guests.

A few years ago, I was hosting a dinner party at my house and a few of the guests were vegetarian.

I shared this recipe on Facebook with a friend, who was making this for a dinner party and she was privy to the «audible sounds of delight» from her guests.

Hosting a dinner party is a lot of fun but it can often mean you spend most of the evening in the kitchen and not all that much time enjoying your guests» company.

As a dinner party veteran I've hosted plenty of dinner parties where I placed far too much emphasis on making everything look and taste perfect, and far too little emphasis on making sure I was relaxed and calm when my guests arrived.

The series kicks off with a Halloween dinner party featuring chef Jonathan Waxman at Barbuto serving up some of his beloved classic dishes, then with Jamie Bissonette at Toro, where guests will enjoy his delicious dishes including the Paella Mixta, Anne Burell at Phil & Annes Good Time Lounge goes family - style in Brooklyn, Justin Smillie at Upland serves up his much sought after slow roasted duck, Marcus Glocker at Batard with a crowd pleasing delicate seafood tortellini, Mario Batali at Del Posto with a lobster salad as part of a five course menu, while Joey Campanaro at the Little Owl includes diver scallops on the menu, Marc Murphy at Landmarc is set to cook braised shortrib, with Los Angeles chef, Vartan Abgaryan from 71Above preparing a very special meal at James Beard House, Scott Conant cooks for one table of guests at the chefs private loft, while Alex Guarnaschelli at Butter with her crowd pleasing crab cakes and scattered acres roasted chicken.

A relaxing, casual, tasty dinner party the next couple of weekends!The salad and Spicy Siracha Spaghetti and Meatballs will delight your guests, for sure!

Repeat every year, and your Share the Warmth dinner party will soon become a holiday tradition cherished by all of your guests.

I made 28 of these for a dinner party, 2 per guest.

Thickly sliced cucumbers topped with dollops of spicy tuna salad are great to serve to lunch guests or at a dinner party.

I recently made it for a dinner party as part of a dessert trio and my guests were blown away.

Having a dinner party with nine guest so using three pounds Yukon gold potatoes and a pound of asaparugus.

Then one day I was prepping for a dinner party and most of the guests were PALEO (this is before I became PALEO) some Gluten Free folks and some vegan.

A week before the dinner party I had spoken to each of my guests about their diet restrictions and some of their favorite foods.

Please welcome Jill McKeever of SimpleDailyRecipes.com who kindly offered to guest a recipe (Thanks again Jill:D): Garlic soup may not sound like the choice soup to serve at a dinner party, yet you'll...

Also, since this is a come - when - you - want sort of dinner party, you can't toss your lettuce with dressing for your first guests and ensure that your last guests don't have to eat soggy salad.

If you're having a dinner party for eight, make sure a couple of seasoned guests are in the mix to keep the flow going and help out where needed.

The dinner party: an event that when executed properly can be the highlight of a guest's month (or year, if you're that good).

As you know, I'm not one for sweet treats but this is a little pop of yumminess — perfect for dinner parties, and it won't leave your guests rolling around on the floor with indigestion.

Reportedly, Gerard learnedof the accident while dining with friends, including horseman Frank Wright.Gerard left the dinner party and asked Wright to bring one of the guests backto his home if he did not return shortly.

Dinner that evening was at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel, with guests including Daphne Netanyahu, the Prime Minister's sister - in - law; Leak Shemtov, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset from the Yisrael Beitenu Party; and Dany Dayan, head of the YESHA Council.

Also joining the mix with a guest appearance will be members of the Trump family, plus Las Vegas legend Wayne Newton who appropriately had the 1963 hit «Danke Schoen» — which means this power - elite party promises to be far more entertaining and enlightening than the beleaguered White House Correspondents» Dinner.

Ivanka Trump hosted a secret dinner party last Thursday night at Wendi Murdoch's apartment with a guest list packed full of powerful businesswomen.

Proteins are responsible for the vast majority of the cellular functions that shape life, but like guests at a crowded dinner party, they interact transiently and in complex networks, making it difficult to determine which specific interactions are most important.

Eliminate any stress of having the dinner party by asking guests to bring a healthy comfort - food favorite, or, even better, pick out a dish, assign out ingredients, and have everyone cook together.

Grab a few cookies for your afternoon snack, or serve them with Teeccino Herbal Coffee at a dinner party to satisfy all of your guests!

These stuffed spuds could be a great dish at a causal dinner party with a few options of fillings and garnishes to suit your guests taste preferences.

It's kind of like that woman who isn't ready five minutes before her dinner party guests arrive, and she swipes some color on her lips, knots that belt and greets guests barefoot at the door with a cocktail.

I cleared out the entire backyard to host this seated dinner party for 20, enveloping guests with tons of lush foliage and romantic candlelight to set the ambiance.

Try plopping a few into a glass of your favorite white wine to wow guests at your next dinner party.

From the engagement photos, bridal shower and bachelorette party, to the rehearsal dinner and the big day, GLAMSQUAD «s highly trained beauty professionals are there every step of the way to help you, your bridal party and guests look and feel beautiful.

These gorgeous photos see us with the bridal party and guests from the set up of the wedding, the pre wedding dinner, right though to the church service and the magnificent reception.

But after hosting a dozen friends at a casual dinner party in my previous residence (a 250 sq ft studio on the beach), I wondered: why have I never seen anything about how to host guests in this style of space and manner?

It was a late - night arrival at the dinner party of the damned, better hope the «7th Guest» doesn't show.

Weisz's Alice raises questions most people don't like to ask when she shows up to a dinner party hosted by Tom (Shannon) with one of his friends and, while getting to know all his other guests, admits that she once left her whole world behind on a whim, assuming a new identity in a foreign country and never going back to the old one.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

Synopsis: When Tom (Michael Shannon) and his wife host a dinner party to celebrate his birthday, one of their guests brings an intriguing date named Alice (Rachel Weisz).

Reflecting the anxiety of the age, this year's best thrillers have run a gamut of phobias, from the environmental terror of Norwegian disaster movie The Wave to the paranoia of ill intentions that informs Karyn Kusama's supremely creepy slow burn The Invitation, about a seemingly friendly dinner party and the one guest who begins to suspect that things are not what they seem.

Director Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White («Chuck & Buck,» «The Good Girl») team up again for this «serious comedy» about a holistic medicine practitioner (Salma Hayek) who attends a wealthy client's dinner party after her car breaks down, leading to escalating tensions between her and one of the guests (John Lithgow).

This is a remake of the 1998 French film The Dinner Game, where a business man's boss holds an annual dinner party and asks all of his employees to bring the biggest random idiot as a guest for everyone to lauDinner Game, where a business man's boss holds an annual dinner party and asks all of his employees to bring the biggest random idiot as a guest for everyone to laudinner party and asks all of his employees to bring the biggest random idiot as a guest for everyone to laugh at.

And so, now that we know why Patrick is the way he is (and are somewhat acquainted with the story's recurring characters), Part 3 flashes forward to a 1990 dinner party and gala, where the guest of honor is an atrociously snooty Princess Margaret (Harriet Walter), and Patrick barely clings to sobriety as he encounters familiar faces from his parents» past.

Local (underage) girl Carla Taylor (Julia Stiles, Down To You, Hamlet) sets off to seduce Barrenger, and Sherry Bailey (Patti Lupone, Summer of Sam, Just Looking), the mayor's wife, sets off making a ultimate dinner party for her new Hollywood guests.

In Östlund's international breakthrough, Force Majeure, a father's duty to protect his family paled in the face of his impulse for self - preservation, and The Square draws an even more pointed contrast between high - flown ideals and baser instincts, not least via a long and uncomfortable scene where guests at a black - tie dinner party are amused and then menaced by a performance artist all - too - convincingly mimicking a wild ape.

The trout dinner, planned at a classical concert where Ross's cellist daughter is to perform, is hosted by the doctor and his painter wife; the guests are an out - of - work salesman (Fred Ward), who stopped off at the greasy spoon where the waitress works before going fishing, and his wife (Anne Archer), who dresses as a clown for children's parties and previously turned up at the hospital where the doctor works, after being stopped and sexually harassed by the cop.

It can also be sectioned into two spaces to accommodate an intimate setting or provide opportunities of going from a cocktail party to a 400 - guest sit down dinner.

I've bored many dinner party guests with my assertion that the next great [American / English / Insert Your Nationality Here] novel has already been written but will never be read, forever to languish unloved and undiscovered in a dusty corner of Amazon or Barnes & Noble.