TwoMisfits
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2002
Hi everybody,
My spouse is planning my birthday party - a 1920's murder mystery party themed to a Mediterranean cruise ship. We have 11 folks coming (and possibly up to 15), and we are working with Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and No Pork or Shellfish...would you come to this type of menu? FYI - we are trying to keep it very make ahead or very fast last minute prep, so no one gets stuck in a kitchen, too...
1st course Apps
- Antipasto Platter - we're thinking of GF bresaola, roasted vegs (red peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, asparagus), maybe olives (although I hate them)
- Seasoned Nuts
- Gluten Free bread (hoping to pawn this off) with herbed olive oil dip
- Home Brewed Beer (ala 20's bootleggers)...
This course should be able to be set in the middle of the table for everyone to grab and gab...
2nd course Main
- Baked Marinated Chicken Breasts with Tomato-Based Bruschetta Topping (it adds at the end, so if anyone hates it, they can have pretty straightforward chicken)
- White Bean Salad (still deciding what type - like the cold lemon ones over argula and spinach)
- Winter Fruit Salad with Lemon-Poppyseed Dressing or Macedonia
- Possibly a Cold Italian-style Quinoa Salad (to replace one of the 2 sides or extra)
- Wine or Bottled Water
This course will be plated by my spouse after he's been "killed"...
3rd course Dessert
- Champagne Fruit Soup with a Sorbet Floater
- Lemon Almond Biscotti (someone is bringing these - GF and DF and biscotti - they are nice to make these b/c I'd never attempt it!)
- Coffee
I already have someone bringing Biscotti, and I'm hoping I get folks to do the bread and the wine (they've already asked what they can bring...I just haven't told them anything yet b/c I wanted a plan, but I couldn't turn down the biscotti. I figure I have room for an extra app or dessert since I have 4 folks asking to bring stuff (over and above the biscotti family)...
Does this sound like too much, not enough, just right?
I should add, my spouse is prepping everything here and we are going to a friend's house for the party (b/c my house can't fit all those folks)...so preprepped is everything (right now, I think he can just bake off the chicken there and put the bean salad over the greens and the champagne in the soup and everything else is just pulling from a fridge and plating with this menu...
My spouse is planning my birthday party - a 1920's murder mystery party themed to a Mediterranean cruise ship. We have 11 folks coming (and possibly up to 15), and we are working with Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and No Pork or Shellfish...would you come to this type of menu? FYI - we are trying to keep it very make ahead or very fast last minute prep, so no one gets stuck in a kitchen, too...
1st course Apps
- Antipasto Platter - we're thinking of GF bresaola, roasted vegs (red peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, asparagus), maybe olives (although I hate them)
- Seasoned Nuts
- Gluten Free bread (hoping to pawn this off) with herbed olive oil dip
- Home Brewed Beer (ala 20's bootleggers)...
This course should be able to be set in the middle of the table for everyone to grab and gab...
2nd course Main
- Baked Marinated Chicken Breasts with Tomato-Based Bruschetta Topping (it adds at the end, so if anyone hates it, they can have pretty straightforward chicken)
- White Bean Salad (still deciding what type - like the cold lemon ones over argula and spinach)
- Winter Fruit Salad with Lemon-Poppyseed Dressing or Macedonia
- Possibly a Cold Italian-style Quinoa Salad (to replace one of the 2 sides or extra)
- Wine or Bottled Water
This course will be plated by my spouse after he's been "killed"...
3rd course Dessert
- Champagne Fruit Soup with a Sorbet Floater
- Lemon Almond Biscotti (someone is bringing these - GF and DF and biscotti - they are nice to make these b/c I'd never attempt it!)
- Coffee
I already have someone bringing Biscotti, and I'm hoping I get folks to do the bread and the wine (they've already asked what they can bring...I just haven't told them anything yet b/c I wanted a plan, but I couldn't turn down the biscotti. I figure I have room for an extra app or dessert since I have 4 folks asking to bring stuff (over and above the biscotti family)...
Does this sound like too much, not enough, just right?
I should add, my spouse is prepping everything here and we are going to a friend's house for the party (b/c my house can't fit all those folks)...so preprepped is everything (right now, I think he can just bake off the chicken there and put the bean salad over the greens and the champagne in the soup and everything else is just pulling from a fridge and plating with this menu...