Tenderloin
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When we have people over, my wife will make a crockpot of BBQ meatballs. Small, so you can comfortably use a toothpick to grab them.
Pigs in a blanket.
Samosa w/ some dipping sauce(s)
Bagel bites
Mac & cheese
Cold cut platter & small rolls
Charcuterie platter
Order a 3 foot sub
None of these is very adventurous unless you make the meatballs by hand. Youc an always use the frozen meatballs from a bag from the grocer.
depends - we have done high end dinner - Lamb Chops, Lobster and
we have done relaxed and nothing but finger foods.
What direction are you looking to go? Are you doing everything or are people bringing?
Cook mini-weiniers in corn muffins for a variation on corn dogs.
Iām definitely doing the bulk of the cooking, although guests have volunteered to bring things. Itās an hour and 15 minute drive or more for most folks, so that limits some of the things they might bring. They are staying the night.
Iām leaning towards either doing some sort of roast (oven or grill), doing grilled meats, or possibly a hearty soup/stew.
While the finger food thing is often a popular choice, iām leaning no on that format.
While I might do this, wife would veto as she hates corn dogs.
Thanks for all the suggestions
She doesnāt have to eat them . . . What about the other people that are going to be there?
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if grilling smoking some wings is a nice app
We like bacon wrapped dates
charcuterie and a cheese board, olives, hummus dips, veggies (carrots, celery, peppers)
Love a baked brie, fig jam or a fruit sauce
Shrimp and cocktail sauce
and pigs in blankets are always a favorite
I donāt see a soup or stew as that festive, unless soup as a 1st course
A grilled meat would be more to my liking
You might want to find out if there are any food restrictions from your guests beforehand? If we were hosting we might need to have extensive non-meat and gluten-free options, for example. It can be awkward doing a heavily focused meat meal if you have several vegetarians attending.
Could make a nice mushroom risotto.
I already know these. One person is no gluten, another has an aversion to spicy things.
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The following day weāll make something for lunch that might not be seen as festive in much of the country but is a New Years day tradition here: hoppin john and greens.
I gave the wife a few ideas for entrees I was thinking about, and she had a clear favorite. Iāll probably buy a spiral sliced half ham, and reheat it on the smoker with a homemade glaze. Thinking I might do duck fat roasted potatoes as a side, and maybe roasted carrots with lemon and dill as the veg.
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Amateur GoA plumbers and cold weather residents, I would value your expertise. At my new place, I think I need to do a little winterizing. The house has both an outdoor shower and a sink, pictures below:
As you can see in photo 1, I already disconnected and drained the shower hose. I will do the same with the hoses that run to the sink tomorrow.
My question: do I need to do more with the shower water control, the shower exposed pipe, and the pipes for the sink with the shutoff valves? And at what temperatures would you start to worry about that?
Unfortunately there is no indoor shutoff for these fixtures and no easy way to add them(WTF people, thatās a cheap and easy thing to add if you are putting something like this in your house.)
I would get someone to blow out the lines.
Blow out which lines? For the shower hose and the sink hoses, Iām confident that gravity will do the job. For the shower water control and the two lines to the sink thereās nothing to blow out since thereās no separate indoor shutoff valve leading to either.
It looks like the shower is over a slab, so ground level? The sink looks like it is over a deck. What is the interior situation? Basement, crawl space? How do the pipes get to the exterior wall, thru floor or ceiling? The sink lines have their own cutoffs, the faucet is controlling the shower? No cut-offs between house main cutoff and those points?
Is that a 2x4 framed exterior wall? Will the interior stay heated at all times? Do you expect the exterior walls are insulated?
These were my first thoughts as well. The greatest danger, IMO, is the pipes freezing within the exterior wall and rupturing.