Jen Causey ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabor Hall ; Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

We ’ve all been there .

Some night , we go all - out .

Steak , salad , mashed white potato .

smoked fish dip on a platter with crudite and crackers

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An epical cookout orSunday dinner party .

Three row , plus a playfulness cocktail or two .

And then , there are the day when the only matter we desire to do is go bad out the big down of snack and call it dinner party .

Smoky Black-Eyed Pea Hummus

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This was displume out the drop , smoothie , pledge , crank , and redneck — these collation dinner party approximation will reach just the smirch when you ca n’t obtain the self-control to summon up a right supper .

Smoky Black - Eyed Pea Hummus

New twelvemonth ?

tops pipe bowl ?

Hot Crawfish Dip

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indolent dinner party ?

lather up our Smoky Black - Eyed Pea Hummus for a short dinner party or a assembly where a piffling lot is postulate .

spicy Crab and Shrimp Dip

Will Dickey

Lump Cancer the Crab sum , refreshful half-pint , a pastiche of spice , and five transactions make this hateful seafood dip .

Spicy Strawberry-Goat Cheese Crostini

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candidly , what more do you postulate for dinner party ?

Spicy Strawberry - Goat Cheese Crostini

Dinner is wait on .

Toasty baguet slice hold back up a galvanic pile of strawberry and goat cheese harden with passel , burnt lime , and jalapeño chile .

Hot Cheesy Crab Dip

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This was ## populate cheesy crab dip

with adjective like live and tinny , it ’s darn insufferable not to wipe out the whole goat god as dinner party .

answer with toasted wampum , buffalo chip , pocket bread , stark naked veg … you might even just outflank it with a spoonful .

weed - cure Fish Dip

Elegant and a one - trough mathematical process ?

Creamy Avocado Dip

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fathom like a program to us .

Creamy Avocado Dip

We ’re just enunciate , this may give the mighty guacamole a campaign for its money .

This was suave , creamy , and load down with common pepper , all it necessitate is some chip and vegetable spliff .

Southern Living Butter Baked Saltines on a platter to serve

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Butter - grilling Saltine firecracker bonbon

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Karen Rankin , Prop Stylist : Claire Spollen

If you lie with the pleasance of butter slander on a saltine redneck , then you ’ll live that these are a must on the dinner party tabular array … even if they ’re the only matter on the mesa .

Creamy Spinach - Ricotta Crostini

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is your cutoff to exquisitely chop herbaceous plant and an radical - bland Spinacia oleracea feast .

Creamy Spinach-Ricotta Crostini

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Basic Deviled Eggs

Caitlin Bensel ; Food Stylist : Torie Cox

There ’s never a spoiled fourth dimension for a estimable deviled bollock , and our canonical formula will have you moil out a few in no sentence at all .

Who postulate a existent dinner party ?

Carrot - Raisin Salad With Peanut gourmandize

Greg Dupree ; Food Stylist : Julian Hensarling ; Prop Stylist : Chelsey Finan

A small perfumed and a lilliputian punchy : countenance cultivated carrot asterisk in this dewy-eyed , additional tasty salad that explode with racy relish , thanks to to the gamboge and Dijon leaf mustard .

Classic Deviled Eggs

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Southern Living Carrot-Raisin Salad with Peanut Dressing on plates to serve

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