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My top 5:

Chicken egg rolls
Frozen Naan
All of the curry sauces are amazing
Peanut butter pretzels
Booze, especially the Hofbrau

After reading this, I need to try that pumpkin butter.

I drove 100 miles to the closest Trader Joes to me just to purchase their Blackberry Infusion tea and they NO LONGER CARRY IT!!!!!!!!!!! I could have cried. I am in love with that tea. They told me to try World Market and I found some Blackberry Sage green tea (for 3x the cost of Trader Joes teas) and it was weak and not comparable at all Could someone please tell me where I can find that luscious tea???? Many thanks!

Meatballs! Make mini-meatballs, freeze them until needed. Defrost and keep warm in a crock pot, with enough tomato sauce to cover them.
My mom is currently in the process of making 15lbs of meatballs for various family graduation parties- they're always requested.

Grill flap meat and chicken breasts for carne asada and chicken tacos; grill corn and flour tortillas for the tacos. Have condiments out, make some killer guac, and side dishes. We threw corn on the cob on the grill with chili, lime butter as well. Some homemade sangria, is festive as well and can be decorated with seasonal fresh fruit.
We did this for my daughter's graduation; afternoon open house reception and everyone had a great relaxed time, and the food was awesome.

Here is a whole list of menu ideas and recipes for a graduation party. You can certainly make your mini quiches and baked ziti ahead of time, along with most of the desserts!

Hillary
Chew on That

Grey Poupon Harvest Coarse Ground, Guldens Spicy Brown, Hellman's Dijonnaise.

oh and I almost forgot O'Charley's honey mustard that I pick up at
Sams' Club.

I personally really don't like mustard, but my 7 year old does. We have French's Classic Yellow, French's Spicy Brown, and French's Honey Dijon.

Um . . . we have about ten mustards . . . radioactive yellow in the French's squeeze bottle, Gulden's, supermarket brand dijon for cooking, Maille dijon for vinaigrettes, Nance's sharp and creamy for my sandwiches, Jack Daniel's of some sort to put on sandwiches for my father-in-law and other visitors, Koop's Arizona Heat (my husband's condiment of choice for many things), at least two kinds of honey mustard for sauces, some kind of fancy raspberry honey mustard dip (Rothschild's, I think) for pretzels and the like, and a few bits and pieces of other assorted flavors. Sometimes we have my mother's homemade mustard and it rocks in almost everything. We also keep Colman's dried mustard and whole mustard seeds on hand for rubs, sauces, picking and the like.

But if you think we have a lot of mustards, you should see our hot sauces and other chili condiments . . .

@Paula Maack--you just had to make it easy and link me right to the site. Now that I've ordered that lovely trio of Sierra mustards, I have to make sure I get the pkg. before my husband sees it, and slide them into the fridge without him figuring out that there are three new jars of mustard in there.

I usually have about a dozen on hand, and they vary. German, Bavarian and French all rock, as are many homemade and artisan varieties.

Frankly, I am surprised no one here has mentioned how awesome the Sierra Nevada mustards are. Their Pale Ale Honey is perfect with ham or anything you want a great honey mustard for, I love the Porter Spicy Brown with brats and cured meats, and the Stout Stoneground is perfect for recipes that call for a good grainy mustard.

I am not fond of French's or Coleman's, but I will use them on a hotdog if there is nothing else around.

Cheers,

~ Paula

I didn't read all of the comments so not sure if this has been mentioned, but wanted to give a shout out for Kozlik's (from Toronto). They have a little stand in the St. Lawrence Market where you can try any of their about 40 different kinds of mustard, with pretzel sticks or fried peameal bacon, divided into sweet, savory, and hot...YUM! Right now I'm stocking Amazing Maple, Triple Crunch, Double C, and Balsamic Fig and Date.