Graduations are a real reason to celebrate if there ever was one. Organizing a party is much easier than book reports and messy science projects -- or the prospect of tuition bills that may be ahead.

Here are recipes and catchy ideas to add pomp to your circumstance.

Jewels Quelly, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, wrote this for the Express-Times of Easton, Pa. She can be reached at angelfoodpcs@verizon.net.