Five Tips To Be The Perfect Host

Your MatchGirl and Boyfriend do so live to entertain, gentle readers. Below, we offer some handy tips that will get you started along the path of being the perfect host.

Holidaze

Your MatchGirl took a week off work to spend some time around the house, working on projects and spending time with visiting family. Enjoy some photos from the week, like the one (above) of Boyfriend displaying our Christmas roast! 

More after the jump...

Tribes

Thursday means Boyfriend is writing!


Tribes is a term I don’t really use. It has some negative Burning Man-esque connotations in my mind. It is a pretty good way to describe our extended non-related family however. As I mentioned in an earlier post this will be my first Christmas away from not only my family but also away from my … um … tribe. I can’t really get down with that word, so from here on out I will use the term that I have always used and say my crew.

Countdown

Gentle readers, your MatchGirl and Boyfriend are in quite the frenzy this week!

As we've both posted over the past couple of weeks, we are hosting a full house of people for the holidays. For Christmas Eve we'll have my parents in town and our friends and their son will join us for a San Francisco inspired dinner. The next day the rest of my family will arrive early and we'll have some breakfast (and loads of coffee, I'm sure!) and exchange gifts and spend some time together...

Menu Plan: Week Thirty-Two

Last week's menu plan, was a pretty big hit. We deviated a couple of times, as Boyfriend and your MatchGirl tend to get over-zealous in the planning, forgetting how tired we are when Friday rolls around again...

This week is going to be nuts, leading up to the arrival of family and friends for Christmas festivities, but we've still got to eat, right?

Boyfriend came up with a pretty simple plan for us - minimal prep work, big flavors and cleaning out the fridge - all good things leading up to the holiday!

Seating Arrangements: Holiday Dinner

Gentle readers, your MatchGirl and Boyfriend are quite thrilled about our Christmas dinner party. And a little nervous at the same time!

I mean, where will the people sit (and how should we seat them) in our little Greenpoint apartment!