Can you believe 2024 is almost here" We’ve decorated our homes, made wreaths, we’ve splurged on gifts, crafted cookies, and gathered with our friends to celebrate the biggest season of gatherings since 2019. My friends and I recently hosted a “progressive dinner” to celebrate the season. We started at my house for hors d’oeuvres, then to another friend’s house down the street for dinner, ending at another friend’s house for dessert. We titled it “Tinsel Tour” and everyone brought their best sparkles out.
It may sound like a lot, but it was perfect and festive, and oh-so-fun to see how each host decorated their homes and treated the guests to a luxurious night. The best part of a progressive dinner is that each host can really go all-out with food and drink, because they’re only hosting for one part of the dinner experience.  I thought I’d share my stop: the hors d’oeuvres. Here was our schedule: appetizers at my house at 5pm, leave for dinner at the next stop at 6:30, then head for our last destination: dessert at 8:30.

After not properly entertaining in my home for what seems like forever, I decided to do something decadent: a menu of Roe Caviar with blinis, mini scooped potatoes, potato chips, creme fraiche, chives and lemon wedges, briny Mayday oysters on ice with mignonette, a festive Sorella Collective cheese plate, a big mound of salty butter with warm bread and plenty of Landmark wine plus...