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Throw a Green New Year's Eve Party
2007 is just about in the books, and with the end of the year in sight, many a champagne flute will be raised in celebration of 2008. Rent champagne flutes: Instead of buying a bunch of disposable plastic ones that will likely end up in the trash, consider renting glasses from your local party supply shop (or online...
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Serve Alcohol-free Drinks this New Year's Eve
Just because you aren't drinking alcohol doesn't mean you can't have something fun. If everyone else is drinking cocktails and champagne it's kind of boring to drink water or soda pop. So if you are having company this New Year's Eve, go that extra step and provide your friends with some delicious "mocktails."
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Buy Green: Pink Champagne
Champagne—there's nothing that says celebration better than this bubbly liquor. It's the signature drink for the New Year, the extra effort made for a romantic rendezvous, and the sign of a distinguished host: And pink champagne just makes the occasion even more special.
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How to Go Green: Dinner Parties
Dinner parties are a great way to get together with friends and share some good food. Host a green dinner party the easy way with the tips and advice in How to Go Green: Dinner Parties.
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Make a Side Dish in Your Crock Pot for Your New Year's Eve Dinner
Having company for dinner can be a hectic business. There's always so much timing involved, making sure that everything is ready for the table a just the right time.
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Mulled Apple Cider for New Year's Eve
My daughter, who loves apple cider, made us some really delicious mulled cider on Christmas Eve. It seems to me that this is a wonderful drink to serve for NewYear's Eve as well. It's spicy and warming and entirely satisfying and will make your house smell wonderful.
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Ring in the New Year with Organic Wine, Spirits or Beer
Whether your tastes run to fine wine, refined spirits, or a cold bottle of beer, there is an increasing number of organic options available in bars and liquor stores. And while the environmental and health benefits of a pesticide-free product are clear, companies specializing in organic alcohol also maintain that organic ingredients and processes make for a better-tasting product.
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Light Up Your Next Cocktail Party with LED Wineglass Markers
Do-it-yourself LED wineglass charms let you remember which glass belongs to whom while cutting out paper and plastic.
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Toast the New Year Without Lead Crystal
New Year's resolutions are often hard to keep but my first one is easy and green: Stop drinking wine out of leaded crystal stemware. Experts seem to agree that while the danger is small if the wine is consumed over a short space of time (such as a dinner), trace amounts of lead do leach into beverages, especially white
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Healthy Organic Spirits, Mixers and Cocktails that Prevent Hangovers
Cocktails don't have to be such diet killers. You don't have to wake up with a hangover that defeats the day after. Your immune system doesn't have to be completely depleted after a dozy. You don't have to wake up feeling listless and moody in the morning.
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Ring in the New Year with a Champagne Cocktail
What would New Years be without the bubbly? It's a quintessential part of the holiday. Every year in my family we love to come up with new takes on old cocktail classics. We toasted this one last week for no good reason and it put me right in the spirit.
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The Scientifically Proven Natural Hangover Cure: Asparagus
The science behind why asparagus might be a low impact way to prevent a high impact hangover.
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Are You Ready for Locavore Liquor in 2010?
When you raise a glass to mark the start of a new year and new decade, will you know where your drink was made?
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Kelly's 12 Most Delicious Cheap Meals of 2009
It's that time of the year when people start compiling "best of the year" lists. We decided to do it last year and I published the 10 Best Economical Dinner Recipes of 2008. It was quite popular, so I'm doing it again this year. Here is the list of my favourite economical recipes of 2009.
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6 Steps to a Dietary New Year's Resolution You Can Actually Keep
Personally, I am not a resolution maker, but plenty of people are. One of the most frequent resolutions is to make an effort to eat healthier meals and lose weight. A laudable goal, to be sure, but one which perhaps is doomed to failure year after year without a proper strategy in place. You don't have to make long lists of rules and you certainly don't have to go on a punishing diet, because they just don't work in the long run. Here are six simple things to live by, not just in 2010, but from now on. If you follow these, you will indeed be healthier, lose weight, and your wallet will be heavier as well.
