Hostess: Cinco de Mayo Party

Cinco de Mayo is this Friday! What better way to celebrate the end of the rain than with a dinner party for a few friends?! Invite over four or five people and make it an evening in. Here is my recipe for a fun Cinco de Mayo celebration:

• Decorate the table with brightly colored red, blue and green linens.
• Use cheery orange and red flowers for the arrangements. Potted geraniums or calla lilies can work too.
• Serve drinks in mason jars.
• Set aside a few flowers and bobby pins in the bathroom and encourage your female guests to decorate their hair.
• Pop in a Sergent Garcia CD.
• Remember these skirts from last summer? This is the perfect time to resurrect one, maybe with a pair of cowboy boots.
• Don’t forget the beer. I prefer Negro Modelo.
• Hang celebration banners above the doorway.
• Make your own guacamole. My recipe: two lightly mashed avocados, juice from one big lime, two spoonfuls of good pico de gallo, teaspoon of onion salt and half teaspoon of chili powder.
• Serve build-your-own tacos or cook up a big pan of enchiladas.
• Offer two kinds of margaritas, standard and mango.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Have a favorite party tip or Mexican recipe? Share it in the comments section below.