# @blackgirlsintraderjoes on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CxYi5dyvn4P
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10157533-blackgirlsintraderjoes-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-19T18:30:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Black Girls In Trader Joe’s (@BlackGirlsInTraderJoes) — https://gondola.cc/BlackGirlsInTraderJoes

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Are you in your dinner party era 🍽️? If not, consider this your sign to enter. As your #SoireeSpecialist , here are three tips to help get you started while planning your menu.
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1. Serve dishes that are *delicious* at various temperatures. Keyword: delicious. Timing a dinner is tough especially when feeding a group. Planning a menu that has components that are served at various temperatures helps you as a host balance your time. A cold salad, a hot soup [that can stay on simmer], a room temperature roasted veggie, a piping hot fish or braised meat & a frozen dessert. 
2. Know your cooking ability. Listen, Beloved. If you’re normally in charge of buttering the rolls or bringing the cups to the BBQ, jumping into a 5 course tasting menu isn’t quite your skill level yet. Instead, pick a recipe or two your really comfortable with & then expand on new recipes/flavors with other items. Stay in your lane. This is also the time to try new macaroni & cheese recipe…not on Thanksgiving. 

3. Everything in it’s place. The fancy term you might’ve heard before on cooking shows is “mise en place”. This translates to “everything in its place”. Chop, dice, purée, mince etc as many ingredients before had. Or if there’s a dish [like dessert, a salad or soup] you can do a day or two ahead of time without compromising the taste, DO THAT!
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Don’t sweat it. Because even if you burn a dish or mistake sugar for salt in a dish, you’ll have a story to tell. What is on your ideal dinner 🍽️ party menu?
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#MakeDinnerPartiesGreatAgain #DinnerParty #Dinner #HostessWithTheMostess

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makedinnerpartiesgreatagain, dinnerparty, hostesswiththemostess, soireespecialist, dinner

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