Help with Graduation Open house menu?!
Help with Graduation Open house menu?
My daughter is graduating from HS this Sat, we are doing a pink/black themed graduation open house..any great ideas for a menu we can serve? It starts at 6, so the appetizers have to be heavy...thanks!
Answers:
Congratulations! I would buy a lot of Good n' Plenty and put it in a huge glass bowl as a centerpiece. And have lots of it around as well. Now, for substantial food, a pasta or meatballs with a tomato cream sauce can get very pink. Have you thought of beets, or borscht with sour cream? That is really pink. You could do a poached salmon decorated with dark pepper strips. You could do a vegetable plate with black olives and cooled beets. Strawberries dipped in chocolate. The Blue corn tortilla chips look black, and if you make a creamy salsa dip, that would look cool, too. You could make pink and black cherry jello squares (or her initials if you have the cookie cutters.) Pink frosted chocolate cupcakes. Watermelon balls and dark purple grapes. And don't forget a pink lemonade punch - get black swizzle sticks. The easiest thing would be to order pizzas with black olives and sausage...
Chocolate covered strawberries - not exactly pink and black but may go well with the theme!
black olives; pink salmon?
You could serve ham salad (that's pink); black olives or something with dark dark chocolate.
tuna salad, fruit and vegetable platters, sweetish meatballs, rice, salads, cake, whatever drinks you all prefer, chicken ( wing dings prefered.
Deviled Eggs with Black Caviar (just a dab on the top of each)
Jumbo Shrimp..cocktail...
Small Egg Rolls
White Cheese and Crackers with Strawberries, Grapes and Pineapple
Crab Dip and Toast Points
Artichoke Dip and Whole Wheat crackers or rolls
Sliced Turkey with small bread slices, and small bowls of condiments (mustards, mayo....)
Prosciutto wrapped asparagus
shrimp crab strawberriers dio cherry watermelone