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Why send flowers when you can send a fresh fruit bouquet that all can taste and enjoy?! Edible Arrangements are fresh fruit bouquets (plus a few chocolate-dipped pieces!) that are designed into beautiful flower-like creations. Compared to cookie arrangements, these strawberry, pineapple, and melon arrangements are a much healthier way to say 'I love you', 'Thank you', or 'Best of luck.'
Instructions and videos showing how to make a variety of green drink recipes including: green beer, green alcoholic cocktails and non-alcoholic green drinks. These will make any St. Patrick's Day party a huge success. Or, if you're playing it low-key this year, your family will enjoy the non-alcoholic green drink recipes for a change of pace.
Whenever someone goes to a lot of trouble to put together a big dinner or party, it's always nice to take along a hostess gift -- food baskets are great! You don't have to buy a fancy gift basket. There are many affordable hostess gifts that you can make yourself. Here are some food gift baskets that you can make and your hostess will love.
Last year's Thanksgiving dinner was my first time cooking for vegetarians. After a little research, I found that I could plan Thanksgiving dinner that would make all of my guests -- vegetarians included -- feel comfortable and satisfied when they left the table. I just had to do a few things differently...
Make some fun football cupcakes! Start with 'easy vanilla cupcakes'. Then add 'vanilla buttercream icing'. Finally, top individual cupcakes with one of the following: Edible Footballs -- made from caramel candies, with white icing as the stripes on the ball. Pennant Flags -- press fruit candies (like Starburst), then cut in the shape of sports flags, attach the flags to pretzel sticks, and pipe some icing messages onto the flags. Tiny Helmets -- made from the same fruit candies in different colors, cut in the shape of football helmets, and then pipe some icing onto the helmets for decoration.
