'I think you should do anything you can do to give yourself a break when you’re entertaining. Because if you’re having a good time, your guests will as well.'
Padma Lakshmi recently finished shooting not one but two hit shows— “Top Chef” and “Taste the Nation”— and arrived home after six months on the road. Many people would put their phones on airplane mode, dive onto the couch and start browsing Netflix."Every year I say I’ll limit the guest list, but you can’t tell someone that they can’t bring their grandmother and their sister-in-law, you know?" she toldwith a resigned laugh.
"I was hearing that a lot of people are stressed out about entertaining ," she said."I think we’re out of practice a little bit, right? So what I say is: Pick a menu that has many dishes that you can make ahead. Get everything ready except dressing your salad or whatever. Go have a shower. That’s key because my hair smells like food whenever I cook. And then have half a glass of wine before anyone gets there and just sit and chill the heck out.
"You slice them in half, you put a little teaspoon of Boursin on each, and you brush it with balsamic vinegar. And I’ll assemble all of those on a tray and stick it back in the fridge so it’s ready to go. And then I just put it in the oven so it’s hot and bubbly when guests are coming. So maybe that it is kind of fiddly, but you’re knocking out most of the work beforehand. And you don’t have to make it perfect. That’s a really easy appetizer that you can just pass around to your guests.
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