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Throwing a Thanksgiving Party : Entertaining Thanksgiving Guests
To entertain Thanksgiving guests, turn on the TV for sports lovers, provide playing cards and board games, offer a batch of apple cider and have various types of alcohol on hand. Host Thanksgiving dinner, encouraging socialization and mingling, with tips from an event coordinator in this free video on holiday parties.
Expert: Lori Randall
Contact: www.SimplyDevineEvents.com
Bio: Lori Randall established Simply Divine Events after working as an event producer in Tampa, Fla. managing dozens of corporate affairs throughout the state and across the country.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:1:32
Throwing a Thanksgiving Party : How to Give Thanks at Thanksgiving
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Giving thanks at Thanksgiving can occur during the toast, during the prayer before dinner or in the form of personal notes handed out to everyone. Give thanks to everyone at Thanksgiving dinner with tips from an event coordinator in this free video on holiday parties.
Expert: Lori Randall
Contact: www.SimplyDevineEvents.com
Bio: Lori Randall established Simply Divine Events after working as an event producer in Tampa, Fla. managing dozens of corporate affairs throughout the state and across the country.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:1:20
Alternative Thanksgiving Menu?
I am planning a Thanksgiving meal, but wan’t to do it in a less traditional way. I will be having people in and out all day, and don’t want a whole traditional Thanksgiving meal. What I want is small appetizers that are Thanksgiving inspired that I can bring out all day. Preferably things that can be made ahead of time.
Cute idea. Hmmm, I’m thinking turkey "bruschetta", toased rounds of bread with a piece of turkey, some wholeberry cranberry sauce and maybe some brie. Individual pumpkin and pecan pie tarts. Raw green bean crudite with herb dip topped with roasted almond slivers.
Throwing a Thanksgiving Party : How to Make a Thanksgiving Basket
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Making a Thanksgiving basket requires filling an old basket, either a traditional shape or cornucopia shape, with fall-related objects, like pumpkins, pine cones, leaves, gourds and apples. Put together a Thanksgiving basket to use as a centerpiece or decoration with tips from an event coordinator in this free video on holiday parties.
Expert: Lori Randall
Contact: www.SimplyDevineEvents.com
Bio: Lori Randall established Simply Divine Events after working as an event producer in Tampa, Fla. managing dozens of corporate affairs throughout the state and across the country.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:1:22
What are you plans for Thanksgiving?
I’m not planning anything or going to anyone’s Thanksgiving. Too bad, I’m not going to eat any Turkey for this year.
nothing special. we invite family over to our house and then my dad cooks turkey and some other side things. then they talk for hours so oh well. happy thanksgiving!
Throwing a Thanksgiving Party : How to Make a Thanksgiving Centerpiece
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Making a Thanksgiving centerpiece can include lining the table with autumn leaves, piling up pumpkins and gourds in the center or using the turkey itself as decoration. Create a Thanksgiving centerpiece, using food, platters and foliage, with tips from an event coordinator in this free video on holiday parties.
Expert: Lori Randall
Contact: www.SimplyDevineEvents.com
Bio: Lori Randall established Simply Divine Events after working as an event producer in Tampa, Fla. managing dozens of corporate affairs throughout the state and across the country.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:2:16
What can I do to make my first Thanksgiving alone a great one?
This year I will be spending Thanksgiving home alone. My family and friends have already made prior arrangements in which it is not an option for me to be included, so it will just be my cats in me.
So far I am thinking that renting a couple holiday themed movies might be fun, and cooking will definitely be fun – I would love some ideas for which movies, and what should I cook that will be reasonable for one person? What other activities will make me feel not as lonely? I’m used to having big family events, so this will be difficult.
I know there is a lot of time to go until Thanksgiving, but planning early will not hurt anything!
Fireball: err of course I want to go see them, it just is not an option (as mentioned in my original details).
Sorry to hear that but why weren’t you invited? I think it’s rude of your family to just pass over you like that and honestly would tell them so. Besides that i would just order some Chinese or buy myself a nice lobster tail call up a single friend and maybe drink up a bottle of wine or two. Good stuff! Have the friend bring a nice game and a movie with her and you can maybe make some snacks to munch on all night….I love to make potato skins but something fancy like stuffed mushrooms will work or even cold shrimp and cocktail sauce. Deviled eggs are a must and only take a sec to make.
Throwing a Thanksgiving Party : How to Decorate Your Living Room for Thanksgiving
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Decorating a living room for Thanksgiving requires eliminating pastel colors and floral scents and replacing them with deep autumn colors and cinnamon aromas. Create the feeling of fall, using pine cones, gourds and pumpkins to decorate, with tips from an event coordinator in this free video on holiday parties.
Expert: Lori Randall
Contact: www.SimplyDevineEvents.com
Bio: Lori Randall established Simply Divine Events after working as an event producer in Tampa, Fla. managing dozens of corporate affairs throughout the state and across the country.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:1:48
What are your THANKSGIVING plans this year?
I want DETAILS! Why? Because this year I will be in a new town (I move next week) where I don’t know a soul. I will most likely cook a nice little meal for myself (if I can find all of my cooking utensils!).
I would love to be going to a wonderful family and friend-filled delicious dinner. But, that’s not going to happen.
So, I want to live vicariously through you…tell me about your “Martha Stewart” Thanksgiving plans. The details are; what type of food, people, activities planned, etc.
Well, since we are spending money to travel and visit family for Christmas, we all voted for Jack in the Box and the movies.
I did cook a chicken, some gravy, rice, green beans, rolls, corn, spinach, fruit salad and pumpkin pie today out of guilt and surprise them. I started off cooking chicken and rice and thought what they heck, they deserve it.
Sometimes chucking tradition and seeing where the day takes you is more fun that the traditional stuff your gut and veg out and hang with family.
One year we got up super early and drove to surprise family. The only restaurant open for breakfast on our route was a little Mexican Restaurant and the only food they had was Chorizo and eggs. Then for lunch we ate sandwiches on the side of the road and watched rattlesnakes crossing the road.
We passed a Zoo that was open so we went in and it was so small, they actually had cows as an exhibit. So we didn’t make it to family, but we laughed more that day than in a while.
Another year, my grandma proudly made stuffed flounder from a new recipe and hot dr pepper. The flounder had the head on so no one wanted to eat it (including her) so she fed it to the cats in the alley and ordered pizza and then we went for a drive to the beach and picked up shells.
On my first holiday alone, I got so homesick I started baking cookies from a recipe book that has been passed down for years. I made so many cookies that I didn’t know what to do with them, so I called the shelter and asked could I bring them. They happily accepted and I confess, selfishly it made me feel better about being alone.
My second Turkey day on my own, I went to a casino, and played the nickel slots. I spent 2 bucks and won 180 and considering I was a struggling student, I thought I was the shizzle. I ended up getting a free buffet meal out of that too and sat with a lady and man that were from KY. They insisted I sit with them. They were cool. They argued like they had been married 100 years but still held hands and giggled too.
Well, I guess I shared enough. Hope you Have a Gobbly good Day!
Pumpkin Cake Cookies w/ a Dark Chocolate Glaze
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Duration : 0:7:17
