Don't keep your love for the United States of America to yourself on the 4th of July! Celebrate Independence Day in all its glory at your house with a party complete with your favorite friends, beautiful beverage dispensers filled with summertime cocktails, sizzling barbeques and decadent desserts, classy centerpieces, patriotic decorations and games, all-American music, and firecrackers, lots of firecrackers. Here are some tips for pulling off a winning party to remember.
1. Southern Barbeque – Choose a theme for your barbeque from a host of different styles: Go a Memphis-style pig roast complete with an awesome sauce made of cider vinegar, sugar, ketchup, honey, salt and red pepper flakes, or an Alabama barbeque featuring a delectable tangy white mayonnaise-based sauce on all the meat. Make sure your tabletop accessories are filled with plenty of creamy mashed potato and rich gravy and coleslaw, of course.
2. Delicious Desserts – When it comes to desserts, you can't go past mini apple pies and all-American brownies strategically positioned over by the beverage dispensers table. And you'll need S'mores too, naturally. Spoil your guests a range of S'mores to choose from, including peanut butter and jelly, strawberry, Nutella and banana, vanilla icecream and chocolate sauce, and cinnamon apple – gooey marshmallow and graham cracker goodness at its best! For something a little different, make a Red, White and Blue Lemonade Bundt Cake or cupcakes frosted with white, red and blue icing, and topped with American flag toothpicks.
3. Patriotic Cocktails – A good barbeque and good company is just not complete without a few patriotic cocktails. Dust off your beverage dispensers and finest barware and impress your guests with creative beverages to complement the food. A Mojito, made of light rum, mint, fresh lime juice, sugar, club soda, and lime slices, is light and refreshing, the perfect accompaniment to spicy fare. To be American to the max, fill your beverage dispensers with American Cobbler, made with bourbon, Southern Comfort, peach brandy, lemon juice, sugar and soda water.
4. Must-Have Music – You've been singing This Land Is Your Land, Yankee Doodle, My Country 'Tis of Thee, Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America since you were knee-high to a grasshopper, and you know every word. That doesn't mean you have to belt these tunes out without a killer soundtrack, though. Purchase “America's Favorite Patriotic Songs” or similar CD, take a swig of your barware drink, crank up the volume, and away you go.
5. Daring Decorations – Get some red, white and blue striped figurines, which can be bought cheaply online and at dollar stores – think Uncle Sams and American Eagles –and use them as centerpieces for your tabletop accessories. For a super affordable way to dress up your party, buy some stars and stripes wrapping paper and make it work as tablecloths. Or, use the paper to cover the bases of candles and beverage dispensers or make paper cones for French fries and popcorn.
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