2. Dress up. Enough of casual crapola! Give Christmas its due, and sport brooches, gloves, hats, mistletoe headbands, frocks, heels, and suits. It’s a special time of year—dress accordingly! You’ll feel really fantastic. Dress as an elf, Santa, or the sexy and brave Mrs. Claus (… behind every great man …).
3. Serve classic food. No fusion cuisine is necessary now; the rest of the year is fine for that—Christmas is for tradition and time-worn recipes. Get out your family’s recipes and serve those suckers with pride. Let your inhibitions relax for a day or two and just appreciate the tradition of a time when food was so scarce that thoughts of carb and fat intake were totally ridiculous. Your grandmothers and greats were starving! Literally. They would think you insane if you snubbed a piece of pumpkin pie. Yes, we know you aren’t living during the Depression now, and you aren’t trying to feed twelve children—you are just fine, and you can do your boring old aerobics class tomorrow. In keeping with our snow theme, try lots of mashed potatoes (with a tiny toy sled perched on it!), snow cones, pecan snowballs, and other white fluffy foods. How about a blini bar with mounds of Cool Whip, coconut, silver sprinkles, and white chocolate shavings? Don’t forget the hot chocolate with fluffy marshmallows!!
4. As far as décor goes, try this Web site for lots of great snowflakes, balloons, etc. Fun and cheap! Lots of twinkle lights in white, silvery garlands, and candles. If you are lucky enough to have a fireplace, I don’t have to tell you to light it, do I? Use miniature snow shovels for place-cards at the table, and put artificial snowballs in your punchbowl—the tackier the better, as far as I am concerned.
5. To make your snowy white dinner party/shindig “green,” and properly environmentally conscious, tell everyone what they can do to ensure future snow will actually exist in the appropriate places—i.e., Colorado, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, the Arctic—you know, those places. Grab some pamphlets from your favorite green organization and pass them around. Have a big (recyclable) plastic snowman in the middle of your living room, and set it up as a donation bank for your environmental charity of choice.
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