Get out the fine china. Two weeks before Thanksgiving and party season is about to kick into high gear. While you may already be receiving invitations to holiday parties, are you sending out any of your own??
Whether you invite 100 or 2, this is the moment to take the initiative. It is not too late to plan your own party, dinner or otherwise.
Come on, get going!
Is your apartment ready? If not, this is also your moment to pull it all together and make improvements you have long been planning on. Clean out your closets, spruce up your living room, restock your kitchen, and then turn up the music. We are here to help you, goad you, tease you, love you all month. MGR
Nothing says party like a girl liking a mint leaf. I guess.
I hope there will be lots of holiday cooking tips. Small apartment, small fridge . . . After some problems where my oven couldn't keep up with my guests hunger last holidays, I need to regroup.
Why not ask people to bring side dishes and dessert? There's nothing wrong with going potluck, especially if there are bunches of people showing up. Non-cooks can buy sides dishes at restaurants, bring drinks/alcohol or music. I go to a group Thanksgiving at a friend's house in Brooklyn. Last year I got caught up in turkey traffic trying to use the oven, so I'm planning on cooking at home and bringing my things over this time. If you still want to go it alone, consider cooking in advance and reheating or just making simpler dishes that don't take so long.
my roommate and i had a very successful holiday party last year in our very small apartment. we made syrup for mulled wine (see Joy of Cooking) and people brought bottles of red wine. A bunch of my roommate's friends came with a large bag of sliced baguette (they were french, so it goes), which was very easy with some olive oil with minced garlic or olive oil with balsamic vinegar. Otherwise, we had festive cocktail napkins and the whole thing was very easy.