Make ahead recipes for the main dish - bliss for busy hosts!Make ahead recipes for the main dish are terrific ways to host a stress-free dinner party. Imagine choosing from your make ahead chicken dinner recipes, cooking one and tucking it away in the fridge the morning of the party or even the day before. All the main chicken pots are washed and put away before your guests arrive. Your counter is clear for setting out wine and appetizers. Bliss!
Coq au vin has the added advantage that it is a one dish dinner. Turkey leftovers may sound like a strange one to include here. But I can get away with calling it leftovers because let's face it - who has the willpower not to eat a single bite of turkey as you carve it and put it away? So that makes the rest leftovers, right?
Or you can cook make ahead turkey weeks before and freeze it in serving sizes. What a convenient way to pull off a dinner party without too much notice. Another great idea is to search out one of the many make ahead lasagna recipes on the internet. An added bonus is that not only can you find lasagna recipes to make ahead, you can freeze them as well. That means you can make your lasagna recipe weeks in advance, just like the turkey. These main dish recipes are lifesavers for a busy multi-tasking host or hostess. Back from Make Ahead Recipes to the Dinner Party Planning Site Home Page |
I even show you how to have that delicious smell of roasting turkey when your guests arrive even though you’ve cooked the big bird the day before.