The Jazzy Vegetarian: Green Entertaining

Creating a festive vegan dinner party menu can be challenging if you are entertaining vegans and non-vegetarians alike. Below you will find a simple to prepare and elegant meal plan, paired with delicious recipes to make your food preparation a breeze. This jazzy menu is eco- chic, economical, green entertaining at it's best!

FIRST COURSE: Carrot & Orzo Soup
SECOND COURSE: Baby Greens Salad with Balsamic Dressing
MAIN COURSE: Festive Zucchini Lasagna, serve with whole grain garlic bread, and steamed broccoli.
DESSERT: Chocolate Pot D’ Creme, serve with tiny tea cookies, and coffee or herbal tea.

The Jazzy Vegetarian helps you make easy to craft, budget friendly, and delightfully fun party favors! Made from earth friendly materials that you have on hand, combined with fair trade dark chocolate, you can craft these pretty party favors for a party of 8 in about 15 minutes! Now that's Green Entertaining!

Let's make earth-friendly party favors! CLICK HERE for VIDEO!

SETTING the table in a festive manner presents your meal in a most appealing light!
Jazzy's Top Ten Tips List for Dressing a Festive Dinner Table: Click here for VIDEO!"

A well-dressed GREEN TABLESCAPE does not require breaking your budget with expensive china or matching tableware. Try using items that you already have on hand. Reuse, repurpose, recycle! When buying items to decorate your table, focus on sustainable items made from renewable sources or purchase items from a charitable thrift store. Below is a short video to help you get started putting together an elegant, but easy formal place setting. Dressing a party table requires only 15-20 minutes of your time when using a bit of creativity, some flea market or thrift store finds, your everyday tableware, and a touch of love!

Let's Quickly Set a Festive table! CLICK HERE for VIDEO!

To save serving time during your party, consider setting up your dessert table in advance using a re-cycled vintage table covering, coffee cups, utensils and plates. This mini green tablescape is both easy to prepare and very attractive! A great, eco-friendly tip for saving space, is to use a re-purposed mug rack to display your coffee cups for easy access!

Throughout your party, add ambiance with some "Jazzy" dinner music. To play, CLICK HERE!

I am so very proud of my sustainable lifestyle book, which focuses on simple entertaining tips for shopping, decorating, cleaning, cooking, and serving your guests in "eco-chic," green style! These handy tips are environmentally sound, simple to prepare, easy on one's budget, and "earth fabulous!"
Please note: The Mommies Line series is being dismantled and my book will be re-released soon! Same Book...New Look!

Please check out a few of my GREEN ENTERTAINING tips below, like my delicious and festive vegan menu, my earth friendly party favors, and my top ten tips for setting a eco-festive table.