Fish dinner menu help?!
Creamy Brocolli soup
Octopus in garlic
Mix shellfish plater
then as a main course
Salmon with tomato souce with jasmine rice and salad
As a Dessert ;
ice cream and fresh fruit
liquer or limoncello
coffee
Answers:
I think the menu looks fine overall. Admittely, I think you'd be fine without the Cream of Broccoli Soup. It's rather heavy and you might want to keep things light. Now, if your heart is set on it, you could offer it as an "Amuse Buche". This is like of like an appetizer but it's smaller, like a one bite treat to ("Amuse the mouth"). So, if you have Chinese soups spoons that sit up on a tray or little tiny cups like espresso cups or even fancy shot glassses, that could work. I just think that a large bowl of heavy soup unlike a light bisque might fill them up and they won't enjoy the rest of your fabulous dinner menu. Enjoy your evening with your guests.
I'm a personal chef.
Normally an entree would be just one of those things, not the lot. By the time they got through all of that there wouldn't be much room for anything else. Of them I would suggest the broccoli soup and a dinner role, so the other seafoods detract from the main dish of fish.
As long as the tomato sauce isn't something that comes out of a bottle. I would rather see the fish more or less plain, just lightly seasoned, with veggies like green peas, diced carrots parsnips forded into the rice with the tomato sauce. I wouldn't want the tomato sauce taste to over power the taste of the jasmine rice unless that is your intention.
The dessert sounds great (limoncello is just another liqueur)
Perhaps an Irish Coffee would be a better choice instead of a liqueur and a coffee.
Regardless of my opinion, I would be happy to eat that and perhaps be proven wrong.
Sounds wonderful, although octopus isn't my cup of tea. The soup sounds like kind of a heavy start to me. How about a gaspacho, or a leek soup, with a little fennel, or dill, in a lighter broth? Just a thought. Good luck.
Are you going to serve any vegetables? Anybody on a diet may not want to load up on protein and carbs alone. I'd recommend some salad/vegetable offerings without heavy sauces for those who are watching their calories.
How about just the soup.
Then the salad
The octopus And mixed shell fish platter is overkill.
Then have a nice veggie with the salmon.
This is just my taste, but personally I would replace the octopus dish with a Caesar salad or some other salad. Then with the salmon, maybe serve some asparagus or green beans. The rest sounds great!
Try the McDonald's Filet of fish, it's like a sore tallywhacker, you can't beat it...
I'd go with the Salmon and Rice dish.
what ever deal your workin on would be sealed if you served that to me