{"id":1588,"date":"2012-12-07T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2023-06-25T20:57:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:57:23","slug":"holiday-entertaining-made-easy-pickle-barrel-catering-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/holiday-entertaining-made-easy-pickle-barrel-catering-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Entertaining Made Easy. Pickle Barrel Catering Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re anything like me, you love entertaining.\u00a0 Ever since we bought our house almost seven years ago\u00a0we’ve found many excuse to have people over.\u00a0 House warming party, birthday parties, holidays, engagement parties, catering<\/a> and <\/span>BBQs on warm summer days, mommy-group play dates, meet the baby, hosting guests from out-of-town, girls night in, clothes swap, super bowl parties and every other excuse I could find.\u00a0\u00a0We’ve probably hosted 50 + events at our place and we’re not stopping anytime soon.<\/p>\n

However, if you’re also like me, you’re not into cooking.\u00a0 I know so many people who love to cook and bake as a way to relax.\u00a0 But for me, I cook to stay alive and to feed my family something other than cereal, cream-cheese bagels, and Kraft-Dinner.\u00a0 In fact, I only started cooking about\u00a0four years ago.\u00a0 So while I’ve hosted several parties, I\u00a0did what any decent business would do, I outsourced the part that I wasn’t good –\u00a0FOOD.\"DSC_0559\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With the holiday season upon us, toddler in tow, my very pregnant\u00a0self and lack of experience\u00a0(or\u00a0desire)\u00a0for cooking large meals, I once again decided to outsource what I feel is the most important part of entertaining.\u00a0 I got a chance to try out the amazing holiday feast offered by Pickle Barrel Catering while I had my family over for a pre-holiday, holiday dinner.\u00a0 This simple, yet\u00a0delicious and traditional\u00a0meal is perfect\u00a0for holiday entertaining. It comes with easy reheating instructions and there’s plenty to offer for\u00a0 vegetarians.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you can expect to receive (http:\/\/picklebarrelcatering.com\/featured-menu\/complete-turkey-holiday-dinner.html<\/a>):<\/p>\n

A whole turkey roasted, pre-carved and decorated or ready to be carved and enjoyed; accompanied by stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce. This ready made meal for your holiday celebration also includes butternut squash soup, mixed greens salad and your choice of herb roasted mini potatoes, maple mashed sweet potatoes, or garlic mashed potatoes, choice of green beans with caramelized onions and almonds or roasted root vegetables, and a crumble top apple pie (recipe for apple crumble<\/a> here) and an assorted fresh fruit platter for dessert!\"DSC_0566\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For $25.99 per person, this\u00a0meal is\u00a0definitely affordable, especially considering how much food you get.\u00a0 If you were to eat out, you would never receive so much “bang for your buck”.\u00a0 Even after feeding six people, we had enough left-overs for a week and if there’s one thing I love more than a turkey dinner its having left-overs the next day.<\/p>\n

Rose Reisman, who helped create the menus for Pickle Barrel has some great tips for easy entertaining on her blog: http:\/\/www.artoflivingwell.ca\/blog\/easy-entertaining-tips\/<\/a>\u00a0 I also had a chance to speak to her and here’s a few of my favourite tips:<\/p>\n

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  1. Inquire of potential allergies and\u00a0have an option of chicken, fish and vegetarian dishes<\/li>\n
  2. Ask for help\u00a0from your guests or hire help if you think you’ll need it.<\/li>\n
  3. Set the table ahead of your guests\u2019 arrival<\/li>\n
  4. To involve the kids with the meal, make something special for them (i.e. cheese pizza’s instead of pizza with various toppings) and let them play pretend that they’re servers or cooks.<\/li>\n
  5. Hire a babysitter to keep the kids occupied (arts, reading, playing) in a separate room while you’re entertaining your friends<\/li>\n
  6. Let the kids in on the fun.\u00a0 They may stay up later than usual, but they’ll probably behave themselves knowing that they’re included in the celebration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The holiday feast is available to order now through December 31st.\u00a0 The Pickle Barrel even delivers on Christmas Day!\u00a0 You can place your order online here: http:\/\/picklebarrelcatering.com\/holiday-entertaining-menus.html<\/a>\u00a0or by phone at 416.493.4333<\/p>\n

    So any of you moms or parents out there who want a traditional holiday meal but don’t have all day to prepare it, this is a GREAT alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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