Simple Weeknight Dinner Gathering

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One of the ways I make sure to spend some time with my favorite friends is to schedule a causal weeknight dinner with them. We usually do Thursday nights and change off cooking every other week. It’s good to do this with close friends, so you don’t feel like you have to cook up a huge fancy meal. In fact, it’s the perfect time to share some of your best quick and easy dishes with your friends.

I still set a nice table, but with place mats instead of a dressier tablecloth. I always use cloth napkins because they are reusable and don’t add to the landfills. I like to use colorful dishes to brighten up the mid-week blahs. My current favorite is my Sengware dinnerware. I love using Sengware Pomello to show off dishes like blackened tofu or fish, or a beautiful squid ink pasta. It’s really striking on the vibrant yellow.

My friend’s favorite dish to cook is quesadillas. She makes hers healthier with low fat cheese and whole wheat tortillas. She opens a can of black beans and corn and mixes them with a mild salsa. There are bowls of avocado and caramelized onion for each person to add in if they want. They cook quickly in a hot skillet to melt the cheese. Christy’s motto is cheese on both sides to ‘glue’ the whole thing together.

You can also sneak in all kinds of leftover veggies from meals earlier in the week. I love greens, asparagus and goat cheese as non-Mexican style quesadilla. Pear and a mild white cheese with a sprtiz of truffle oil is another gourmet twist that takes no more time than the traditional. You can even serve these during a fancy cocktail party.

Make a quick salsa by pulling out your food processor. Add a can of tomatoes, green chilies, fresh garlic, lime juice and cilantro and puree it all together. You can even freeze the leftovers for another weeknight! If you have some leftover rice from earlier in the week, heat it up with a little water, some chopped cilantro, and enough salsa to turn it red. It’s a perfect side dish for any Mexican fare. Another easy side dish is simple steamed vegetables, sprinkle with a little chili powder and cumin to give it a little twist.

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Create a Bold Table with sengWare Dinnerware

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One of the nicest thing about sengWare is the bold look you can create with it on your dinner table. Sold in a 4 piece place setting, it encourages you to mix and match to create an eclectic setting. My favorite is to mix the Heaven shade of blue with the Pistachio green. It really brings a modern retro flare to any meal.

It pays to have a few settings in all of the different colors so you can select which one to use by the dish you are serving. I love serving cream based soups in the Blueberry shade and nothing looks nicer than a red pasta sauce on the plain white. Really, all the colors have their place, so you can add new colors to your collection little by little.

Choose from a square or round place setting and add in cocktail plates and a 48 ounce pitcher filled with water to dress your table up even more. Cook up some individual bread puddings in the cute ramekins and you have instant portion control. Something we can all use during the holiday eating-fest.

You can even use it to have a tea party gift exchange on Christmas morning. The tea pot has a hip asymmetrical look and holds a full 36 ounces of freshly brewed Earl Grey. Cook up an orange cranberry coffee cake in the sengWare casserole dish and then serve it up on the hors d’oeuvre plates. You can even put an assortment of scones on one of the platters. The ramekins are perfect for orange marmalade and clotted cream.

sengWare is based in Seattle and prides itself on making its dinnerware with fine grade natural clay. Their unique manufacturing process creates a material that is sturdier than porcelain, and at the same time, more refined than ceramic. They are also 100% lead and cadmium free which is a comfort.

Not only is sengWare dishwasher safe, but you can also put it in the oven, microwave, and freezer. It has more resistance to retaining smells due to its low permeability, which also helps it be stronger. They also perform well in changing temperatures, within reason, after all they are still ceramic. You’ll get even baking in the oven and easy cleaning afterwords. Made to please a professional chef as well as the home cook.

Once you try sengWare you might find it hard to use anything else!

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