THE ART OF THE HOLIDAY TABLE
Choose dishes that allow you to spend less time staring into an oven and more time sitting with the people you invited over in the first place.
MY FAVOURITE MEALS USUALLY AREN’T THE FANCIEST
Some of my favourite food memories happen at home with my kids. They’ll pick tomatoes from the garden. We’ll grab bacon from the farmers’ market. We’ll make pasta dough with flour grown by a small family-run farm. Eventually, with a little work and probably a little flour ending up somewhere it absolutely shouldn’t, those ingredients become pasta all’amatriciana. It isn’t an elaborate meal. But my kids know where the tomatoes came from. They helped make the pasta. They watched a hand- ful of simple ingredients become dinner. And then we sit down and eat it together. To me, that’s what a holiday celebration should feel like. Not perfect. Not overly complicated. Not something that requires a spreadsheet, three timers and an emotional-support glass of wine just to get dinner on the table. Just generous. Welcoming. Full of good food, good stories and good people. So this holiday season, instead of starting with: “What can I cook that will impress everyone?” Try asking: “How do I want people to feel when
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Wrap Up a World of Flavour
they’re here?” Then build from there. Choose ingredients worth celebrating. Choose food people can share.
Choose dishes that allow you to spend less time staring into an oven and more time sitting with the people you invited over in the first place. And if creating that kind of evening still sounds like a lot to put on your plate, that’s exactly why we do what we do at Prairie Kitchen Catering . Sometimes the best thing you can serve your guests is your company. We can take care of the rest. Because the best holiday meals aren’t necessarily the ones people remember eating. They’re the ones they remember being together for.
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