What's an easy dinner recipe for a large group?!
What's an easy dinner recipe for a large group?
I need to make dinner for about 30 people, but it needs to be easy and quick. Any help?
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Sam's Club--or probably Costco, depends on where you live, has Stoffers Lasagna, Meat or Veggie, buy enough you need according to serving size, I would say about 6 (they are about $9.99 each). They are really really good. I am Italian, and with three small kids now, I never make huge meals from scratch. Buy pre washed Salad. add fresh tomoto and cucumber, and get italian bread, cut down the top center, pour melted butter, and garlic salt, add mozz cheese, bake until cheese melted, and everyone will go nuts. The lasagna can be baked frozen, or you can let thaw and bake. Get the nicer large paper plates. I promise this will be a success!! I did this for my kids b-day party and the family loved it...
oh thats easy, when i have that much company over i just heat up a large cauldron of GRUEL
anything with pasta. it is quick,you can use the meat and sauce of your choice.
Spaghetti
that sounds like fun.
u should check out foodnetwork.com
look for rachel ray's 30 minute meals
and find something that suits your palette.
Make 2 different types of stir fry's
1 chicken n veg with one of the following sauc
es sweet n sour, honey soy, lemon, sweet chili
2. Beef stir fry with blackbean sauce
cook some prawn crackers
Boiled rice with abit of garlic butter
maybe make a noodle dish as well with some soy, garlic, broccoli, snow peas, carrots and capsicum.
its quck and easy and doesnt cost very much money.
it will take maybe 1 hour to cook
chili! borrow some crock pots from the neighbors and get cookin!
I like recipezaar.com for quick and easy meals. I learned to cook from that site.
Pot Roast. Get a few chuck roast and sear them to lock in the juice. Put one pack of lipton onion soup mix to every roast If you have a big crock pot use that if not big roasting pan cook on 350 till they are falling apart. Add whatever veggies you like, potatos, carrots, mushrooms, onions and cook till veggies are tender.
Crock pots the best cuz you can put it on before you leave for work and when you come home all you have to do is add the veggies.
GOOD LUCK!!
Hi biphies,
I'd say spagetti with or without meat, lettuce salad & garlic bread,
You could use jar spagetti sauce make it easier just add a few more spices-garlic fresh & oregano maybe basil too, get prepared garlic bread too but the salad I'd say 3 heads chopped up fine,green or black olives, tomato, cukes, or just lettuce with Garlic ranch dressing. Have a good day. :0)
pasta, stir-fries, casseroles, fondue, stews and chili.
A couple of big pans of lasagna, a huge tossed salad, garlic bread, and the best bakery cakes you can find. If you don't want to cook everything from scratch, you can always buy the lasagna and garlic bread pre-made. Buy a couple of big bags of salad greens and add some cherry tomatoes, diced green peppers, sliced cucumbers, or whatever you'd like in your salad.
Presentation is everything, so even if the stuff is storebought, transfer it over to your prettiest serving dishes before cooking. Garnish the food creatively, hide the "evidence" boxes and bags well in the garbage, and nobody needs ever know that you didn't spend hours in the kitchen!
A green salad is a no brainer, a macaroni salad is also a good choice (there is a lot of recipes and pre-packaged mixes available) Soup is another good choice, because it stays hot & ready for ages without any effort. The choice of entrees depends a lot on who you are serving (age, food preferences, gender, and even season.) Is it a sit down dinner or more like a buffet?
Decide on your menu, making sure that you only have a single dish requiring any personal attention during the hour before your first guests' arrival. Delis can provide options too. Summertime means a cold entree is often a great choice, requiring little last minute preparation.
If I was preparing one for a mixed group of adult friends, I'd have a buffet, offering a pasta salad, a vegetable tray, a basic cheese tray, crackers, two choices of dips for the vegetables, a crock pot of a light broth-based soup, a fruit tray with sliced apples, pears, papaya, and strawberries, an antipasto tray, and two cakes for desserts. If it was a group that was a heavy meat eating sort of crowd, I'd add a crock pot of shredded bbq'd chicken meat and buns, along with pickles and sliced cheese. (bbq'd chicken made by stewing chicken until tender in water, boning & removing the skin, shredding the meat and mixing it with bbq sauce and only enough broth to keep it from scorching in the crock pot. Using hindquarters means it will be moist and inexpensive.)
With this menu, EVERTHING is done ahead, with the last minute stuff only being removing the plastic wrap from the trays and adding the preheated bbq chicken to the crockpot.