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Not Hosting Thanksgiving?

Not hosting Thanksgiving Day this year?  Lucky You!

Even though you may be attending a Thankgiving feast rather than preparing it, you may want to bring along something special for your host. Offer to bring a side dish, rolls, or something to help the chef, however if they seem to have everything covered here are a few suggestions to make you the perfect guest.

1.) Dessert - bring along something other than the traditional fare such a lemon pound cake, spice cake or an apple pie.

2.) Keeping in line with dessert, prepare a basket of coffees and teas for your host. Include small bags of coffee, tea bags, lemons, honey and flavored creamer

3.) A few bottles of wine

4.) Bouquet of Autumn colored flowers

5.) A spiced cake candle or one with a unique seasonal shape

Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at the Event Planning Network!

Thanksgiving Day

Are you hosting Thanksgiving at your house?  Cooking for family and friends?

If so, our friends at Commonwealth Caterers has some help for you. Over the next two weeks, their blog will be featuring recipes, tips for your turkey and answering your kitchen questions.

Bookmark our blog as we'll be featuring centerpiece ideas and etiquette advice.

Marshmallow & His Wonderful Wish Book

Have you met our good friend and fellow planner, Bridgit?  Besides being one of the best planners in the business, she is extremely sweet, sassy and talented!

She recently started her own blog called Marshmallow Mondays.  I don't want to go into too much detail because you really must read it for yourself.

In a nutshell, Marshmallow is a five year old that has captured the heart of Bridgit and all of us who are privileged enough to hear all about his daily adventures! He has reminded us to live in the moment and that ice cream should definitely be considered an entree.

Visit her blog and check out Marshmallow's story and how to construct the perfect Christmas Wish Book!

Ask Riley!

Getting a quick recipe or an answer to your kitchen question has never been easier!  Our friends at Commonwealth Caterers has started a new feature called "Ask Riley". 

Clarence Riley is the owner and head chef for Spring Garden Conference Center and Commonwealth Caterers. Get one-on-one advice about menus, recipes or even help preparing your Thanksgiving Day dinner.

Visit their blog for more information: http://www.comcatblog.typepad.com/

What To Do With Your Leftover Pumpkin

You had a great time decorating and carving your Halloween pumpkin, now what do you do with it?

Besides discarding it, look into some of these ideas:

• Donate your pumpkin to a local farmer. The farmers use pumpkins to feed their livestock.
• Compost the pumpkin to help your garden.
• If you did not carve your pumpkin, you can decorate it for Thanksgiving by carving out the center and adding a candle.
• Scoop out the seeds and roast them in the oven. Check out this recipe
• Grow your own pumpkins. Gather seeds from 3 or 4 different pumpkins and plant them together.

Here is a photo from little Catie in Mechanicsburg who used our blog to help her mom carve their Halloween pumpkins!

Thanks everyone for reading!