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Friday dinner party ideas

Tip: Use these Friday night dinner party ideas to deal smoothly with last-minute out of town guests. It works beautifully. Chances are very good that your out of town friends will be glad you didn't "fuss" since they arrived on the spur of the moment.

Friday night is the perfect time to pull out your casual dinner party ideas. Everyone is glad it’s the end of the week and nobody expects gourmet. In fact they probably prefer to come over, kick off their shoes, pour a glass of wine and gather round as you pull together easy dinner party ideas.

Centerpiece ideas

tealight candles in a row Friday night is the night to pull out your easiest centerpiece ideas. And one of the absolute easiest is a candle centerpiece.

Just put several pillar candles out on a plate and you have a perfect candle centerpiece. Or put a row of votive candles down the middle of the table and you create a glowing mood without stressing yourself out.

Buy and or make ahead recipes

For your make ahead appetizers, just put out some olives alongside a tray of cheese and crackers. Set the informal tone buy inviting your guests to open the wine they brought and help themselves and each other. That leaves you free to attend to the easy dinner party recipes you have chosen for this casual Friday night dinner party.

Of course the easiest dinner party ideas include the easy dinner party recipes that you make ahead or buy ahead. Make ahead recipes for especially good for your dessert. After everyone has settled at the table and is dishing up the week, you don’t want to be jumping up to work in the kitchen.

So if you feel like making one of your favorite desserts that keeps overnight, you’ll find it a snap to bring on the dessert at your casual Friday night dinner party.

Tarts and cookies are great buy ahead desserts, they are so trouble free. Just put them on a plate on the table with a few pieces of fruit – grapes, orange sections, apples, and let people stretch out for them and munch as they listen avidly to the latest from the water cooler.

Main course dinner party recipes

delicious looking roast chicken With dessert all organized from the night before, you can pop a couple of chickens in the oven and roast them. Most people love chicken so nothing could be simpler, especially if you bought the chickens the night before.

Just be sure to reach in and make sure you have pulled out any paper bags of giblets if they are included. Otherwise, all you have to do with this easy dinner party recipe is wash the chicken, pat it dry and put it in the oven at about 350C to roast for about 20 minutes a pound plus an extra 10 minutes or so. Use a meat thermometer to take away the guesswork.

Cook some rice, toss a salad and cut up a baguette. Voila, dinner is ready. Ask your guest to bring their wine glasses to the table, light the candles, put on some music and sit down to enjoy your casual Friday night dinner party.

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