Cooking: A Holiday Must

Check out this video about why cooking is so important to every holiday (especially Easter)! For recipes go to foodnetwork.com! Enjoy! Special thanks to Kim Dela Cruz, Starr Gacula and Chelsey Nakama for making this possible!

Quick-n-Easy SuperDuper Super Bowl Party Ideas

With the Super Bowl a day away, here are some last minute decorating ideas to WOW your football fans at that awesome game day party.

Decorate your buffet table with a grassy table cloth found at most party shops for just a few dollars. If you really want to go all out you can paint white ten yard lines and construct cardboard goal posts at both ends of the table. Add some football shaped confetti to sprinkle the top of the table.

If you are going cheap, then a plain green table cloth will work just fine. Oh yeah and for those who don’t have paint just lying around-white out works pretty good for those yard lines.

Balloons of the teams are also another cheap way to add some color to your party. Go get some black and gold balloons and put them on one side of the buffet table and some blue and white for the other.

Decorating the walls is left to the party store for football cutouts, unless you want to make your own with cardboard and paint. Try not to leave this for the very last minute or your paint won’t dry before your guests arrive.

Streamers top off the room for some added flair. Stream colors of the teams across the room and dangle some from the ceiling above your buffet tables. These will bring the room to life even before all the food is set out.

Place your food in football shaped platters and football decorated paper plates and watch your party come to life! Also add some football decorated napkins and paper cups, or even napkins the colors of the teams.

When the guests arrive your party will burst with madness!

Also to add some flair get some light up football ice cubes… These will turn your regular beer and wings combo into something a little more festive. They can be found at most grocery stores at this time, and more commonly found at party stores. 

 




Don’t forget the football cupcakes to top it off!

Mind Your Manners!

Being a grownup is hard. You have to make your own food, pay bills, clean your room, and best or worst of all, there's no mother next to you telling you what to do. There's no mother to tell you to chew with your mouth closed or keep your elbows off the table. So what do we do now as grownups when it comes to etiquette? There are the easy rules like don't be late, don't smack your gum...but what about rules that aren't so common sense. Say for instance, you're hosting or attending a dinner party. Who knew that at one meal you could have 3 different forks?! Here's a couple of tips to follow and you'll be ready to dine, pinky up and all.

1. BMW--(no not the car, but I wouldn't mind one....) However, this easy to remember acronym stand for Bread, Meal, Water and should be applied when setting the table. The bread dish goes on the left side, then the meal, and the water glass to the right.

2. Outisde-In-- At the first fancy dinner I went to, I felt a little like Ariel from the Little Mermaid. (I didn't brush my hair with a fork, but I was pretty darn confused!) The rule is actually quite self-explanatory...start with the outside and work your way in. You eat the salad with the outer most fork (usually slightly smaller than the main course) and then the next fork is for your main course...If the silverware is place at the top of the plate, save that for later, it's probably for you coffee later.

3. Napkins--When you sit down, put your napkin in your lap! You don't leave your napkin on the table during dinner. After your done eating, you can put your napkin on the table. (Also if you HAVE to spit something out, which you really never should....wipe your mouth with your napkin and discretely spit the food item out and fold it in your napkin.)

4. Ahh...put a fork in it!-- ALWAYS USE SILVERWARE! even if you are eating something like a french fry do not use your fingers. Keeping your elbows in, you may cut with your right and then switch hands to put your fork in the right hand.

5. If you can't talk...it's too much food--Bites should be small...You should be able put the food in the corner of your mouth, and continue talking with out anybody noticing.

There are a lot more rules but most of these can be figured out by watching others, or just using your common sense!

You can find some more helpful hints at: http://www.gourmet-food-revolution.com/dinner-table-etiquette.html

Welcome!

Pullman is known for two things--Lentils and Washington State University. And while our university may be in the midst of wheat fields, in the middle of nowhere, no one can compete with our school’s spirit. When we leave Wazzu, we leave proud to be Cougs.

Now we may not be in a big city, or in the midst of Hollywood glamour, but us Cougs know what it means to throw a party. And just because we live in the wheat fields doesn't mean we have to party like we have no class. And with that, Wazzupolitan is here to help! We'll let you know everything there is to know about parties. How to throw one, (there’s more to parties than beer pong and sticky floors), what NOT to wear, (because neon colors were so yesterday), the best new dance music (make way for Young Money), and even help you make some great cocktails (shaken, not stirred). Imagine if Martha Stewart and Paris Hilton had a love child...her name would be Wazzupolitan. And we know we're all broke, so we'll show you how to do all this and more while saving some money!

Just because we don’t have flashing lights, doesn’t mean we aren’t red carpet worthy.

A Martha-Paris love child? Now that's hott.