I'm Robyn Moreno, Woman's Day's consumer editor. Wanna wow your friends to your next party? Why not have a theme? Today, we're with David Tutera, host of the Party Planner Show on the Discovery Home Channel and also author of Big Birthdays. He's gonna show us how to create a menu using red, black, and white.

So, we're gonna put something together that's actually very easy to do 'coz it's all about simple steps of preparing your food. But you want them to look beautiful at the same time and you don't wanna be stuck in the kitchen.

I certainly don't.

I want you to be a guest of this party, right?

They need me out there.

Alright. So, we've talked about the color scheme. It's red, black, and white. So, we have 3 slices of beets in the center of each of our plates.

Which are red.

Which are red, which go with the color scheme.


What I want you to do is take the goat cheese and crumble it all across the top of the beets.


While you're doing that, I'm gonna mix in my bowl two-thirds of olive oil and one-third of a raspberry triple thick.

We're keeping that red alive.

It's gonna taste good too. Perfect for a grilling party by the way. So, we're gonna whisk this together.

Yeah the triple-- the heat would really compliment--


everything, right?

You wanna get it already prepared. Alright. Now, I'm gonna drizzle this over my first.


Some more heavy in the middle.

It's easy though. It's just two-thirds, one-third and whisk.

Exactly. If you want it just a little bit more thin, put a little bit more of the olive oil in and on the outside, a little bit heavier in the middle.


There we go. Final step! You know that right?

Sesame seeds?

You got it.

Thank you. And these are--

Garnish on top of our salad.

pretty easy to find, right?

Very easy in the Asian section in your grocery store.


Now, look how beautiful that is. Tastes wonderful and it really begins the-- just matches the whole look.

This looks absolutely amazing. It looks like we actually put really more effort than we did.

And we [unknown] and now you can be a guest at your own party.

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