Dinner Pary with Ease
How to plan a dinner party, as easy as 1,2,3.Denise Wilcockson is a cooking enthusiast with a difference.
Shes a foodie? passionate about people enjoying food with friends, without finding the process of catering for a dinner party stressful.
Denise is a self taught cook whose natural cooking skills combined with organisational abilities led her to managing the catering for a theatre restaurant and running a professional catering service. Shes catered for as many as 300 people at one time and has won several cooking competitions.
When it comes to food her favourite activity is having friends over for dinner. As a result of her friends always being amazed at the quality of food, as well as how organised she is, she realised that for many people holding a dinner party, particular one for a large gathering of friends and relatives is a stressful experience.
People are always telling me they couldnt possibly cater for a large dinner party or how stressful they find having more than just a few friends around,? she said.
The answer to being able to host a dinner party and having plenty of time to enjoy sitting with your guests is in the organisation ? knowing how to time things,? she said.
Denise takes participants in her courses through the preparation of a dinner party menu, preparing the meal and shows them how to schedule it so that everything is ready on time and without the cook having to devote half the evening to being hot and flustered in the kitchen.
A unique part of her courses is that she provides her students with a dinner party menu, giving them a step by step, hour by hour break down in a Planner she has designed for this purpose to ensure theyll be well organise.
She shows course participants how to tailor her planner to suit individual circumstances, to adapt it to the type of event they wish to hold so they will never again have to spend most of the evening in the kitchen and can be free to mix it with the guests for each dinner party she provides. ...read more
