Delegating Dinner Duty

According to an informal poll of our Twitter friends (you do know we’re tweeting at @savvymomdotca, right?), savvy moms wish they could do a little more delegating in the month of December, especially on the cooking front.

You’re hosting dinners for friends/family, cookie exchanges, and potlucks (not to mention the three square meals we’re supposed to be serving our families in between), so it’s easy to see how we can end up sobbing into our gravy-splattered oven mitts.

That’s where Epicuria Fine Food Store and Catering comes in. They’re set up to handle anything that we can’t.

Although it’s too late to place your order for a full turkey dinner, we can still take advantage of their fresh take-home dinners or raid their freezer full of frozen entrees. Epicuria freezer meals are a godsend on busy nights (which tend to pile up this time of year) and prevent us from spending too much time in the drive-through.

Up for grabs are a few new-to-us dishes (Lamb Tagine anyone?) and a few tried and true ones that no one needs to know you didn’t make from scratch. The chicken pot pie, chock full of mushrooms, caramelized pearl onions, bacon, leeks and potato, easily serves four, and for $15, it’s a pretty good deal.

Epicuria also has a happy variety of party-ready foods and other little things that can make entertaining at home a lot easier. Dips and fancy crackers, sauces and stock for soup and Christmas cookies too…you can be ready to entertain at a moment’s notice.

There now! No need to get our oven mitts soggier than they already are.