Pamper Yourself: Planning a Spa Themed Open House

[cookingwithhart]

I may have jumped in before thinking this one through! I sent out a very cute invitation for a Spa Themed Open House, and now I have to back up the "Spa" theme. The invite came with a few home recipes, but I have very few RSVP's and don't feel like going to all the trouble (and expense of making a bunch of home recipes). Any suggestions, or anyone had success with this type of show? The whole..."we deserve to pamper ourselves" really appealed to me then. Thanks!

 

[JerrySue]

Perhaps co-showing with a "spa" rep. a friend from beauticontrol and i are planning a Spa theme show. She is doing hands and feet products and I am doing stricktly comfort foods. Molten choco cake, cream fuffs, and chopped fruit w/ yogurt parfait recipies. Premise is "get pamered when in the kitchen and out"

 

[scottcooks]

PAMPERED HANDS with Lemon/Rosemary and...

Tools: Bamboo Tongs, Rice Cooker Plus, Large Woven Selection Square Basket, Suds Pump, Lemon Rosemary Gift Set

Technique: Before the show, take paper towels, fold them in quarters and layer them (off center from each other) in the Rice Cooker Plus. Have 2-3 more paper towels than you have guests for. Add 1-2 cups water, depending on how many towels - 1 cup for every 8 towels. Pop the lids on and nuke it for 5-6 minutes until it steams. Leave in microwave. Nuke again for 1 minute as guests are arriving an d set it on your demo table.

Then, have your suds pump with 1/2 inch of LemonRosemary hand soap and 2/3 full of HOT water. Leave on the demo table after you turn it upside down a couple times so soap is dissolved.

In the Woven Selection - have an assortment of washcloths or finger towels hand-rolled.

Demo: talk about smell-removing qualities of lemon/rosemary, then show hand soap in pump - pump some onto your bare hands and pass around the pump.

Then open the RCP and take out a single paper towel with the tongs, pass the tongs and black lid around to everyone. Explain how it makes rice, veggies, even a cake, and pass it around to everone to wipe their hands after soap.

Then take a towel from basket, wipe your hands dry and pass the basket. Pass the basket again to collect towels & paper towels at the end, with the hand lotion. Talk about aloe healing cracked skin and it being a water-based lotion, not heavy.

Here are some other PC spa recipes I've used... * ones are my wife's favorite.

 

[speedychef]

use the ultimate mandoline to slice cucumbers for your eyes while you pamper your hands! Try the truffle recipe from Cooking for Two or More, decadent seems like it goes with spa! Talk about how you can pamper yourself with recipes that save time and cleanup so that you have the time to take a bubble bath after dinner!

 

[speedychef]

use the ultimate mandoline to slice cucumbers for your eyes while you pamper your hands! Try the truffle recipe from Cooking for Two or More, decadent seems like it goes with spa! Talk about how you can pamper yourself with recipes that save time and cleanup so that you have the time to take a bubble bath after dinner!