What would be the best meal to cook at a dinner party??!
What would be the best meal to cook at a dinner party??
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I find the best recipes for a dinner party are the ones that are low stress... something you can just have heating in the oven while your guests are arriving. After all, the whole idea is for you to enjoy yourself too, and have time to spend with your friends. If you're relaxed and having fun, your guests will be too. For this reason, anything that requires a lot of last minute prep isn't a good idea. Go with a one dish meal... I made a chicken dish once that people liked: browned chicken breasts stuffed with Prosciutto and sage in a casserole dish. The chicken was surrounded by wild mushrooms that had been cooked in shallots, olive oil, and Marsala wine. Pretty much everyone likes lasagna too, and once it's in the oven you don't have to worry about it. I've even made it with those "oven ready" noodles that don't require boiling and it's turned out fine. Anyway, good luck.
Chicken or a pasta. Those are pretty hard to mess up and most people like them.
Something what your visitors like :)
I like lasagna and cold juices (orange, mango etc)
I've served Chicken or Turkey Tetrazinni with a fresh salad and crusty bread. It's easy to make, you can do it ahead of time and it's comparatively inexpensive. For dessert you could serve cake and ice cream or sherbet and cookies or trifle. Pretty much anything you like. :) Good luck!
Nothing dear - get the chef to do it for you.
But if you have to - try beef stroganoff - it's quick to rustle up after the starter.
best meal would be garlic sour cream and cheddar cheese mashed in with mashed potatoes
or
buy a rotisserie chicken at the deli section in grocery store and just heat for party or serve as is
or make hot wings buy 4 pound bag and deep fry them and pour hot sauce with tabasco butter and microwave them and pour all over hot wings and heat when time to serve
make potato skins or mozzerella sticks found in frozen food isle
make a cheese cake with cherries on top in graham cracker crust
make a green bean cassarole or broccoli cassarole
Depends on who you're inviting.. but generally speaking:
Lasagna OR Linguine with Clam Sauce OR Osso Bucco or any braised meat and roasted garlic mashed potatoes...
Bacon and Crab Chowder
This looks like such a lovely fall/winter comfort dish! And crab... YUMMO!
30 min 15 min prep
6 slices bacon, chopped
2 russet potatoes, peeled and cut in 1/2 inch dice
1 large onion, chopped
2 celery ribs, with leaves, chopped
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups chicken broth
6 cups milk
12 ounces lump crabmeat
3 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
1 tablespoon Old Bay Seasoning
3 tablespoons dry sherry
4 tablespoons chives, snipped
oyster crackers
Put a medium pot over med-high heat, add a drizzle of olive oil and cook the bacon until it is crisp. Remove and drain on paper towels.
Pour off a little of the bacon fat. Add the potatoes, onion, celery bell pepper and bay leaf, season with salt and pepper and cook until the vegetables are softened.
Stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes. Add the chicken broth and stir with a wooden spoon, scraping up all the brown bits at the bottom of the pan.
Add the milk and bring to a simmer.
Break up the crab meat with your fingers, removing any shell bits. Combine with the thyme and Old Bay.
Stir the crab meat into the pot and simmer 6-7 minutes, until the potatoes are fork-tender and the soup has thickened.
Finish the chowder with the sherry and serve with the bacon, chives and oyster crackers.
i nice steak kabob with rife pilaf usually goes over well, other wise go with chicken and brocolli alfredo. never any complaints with that.
spegetti
As a snack:
Bread.
Pepper.
Extra virgin olive oil.
Salt.
Mix the salt, pepper and olive oil in a plate, and tip the bread into the mix...., delicious.
Who are your guests? Casual or fancy? Budget?
I've found so many people have eating restrictions these days! A few friends are vegetarian, a couple don't like fish and everyone and their brother is on a low carb diet to lose weight for the Holidays!
I'm also on a low carb diet so I make meals that I can enjoy, too, while offering a variety of choices for my picky guests. I follow the Kimkins Quick Loss Diet and this is my favorite menu:
Soup: Homemade Vegetable (no potatoes or corn)
Salad: Baby Greens Mixed Salad (variety of dressings)
Entree: Oven Roasted Herb Chicken (no skin)
Sides: Broccoli & Roasted Red Pepper Saute + 1 starch
Plus a bar of various sparkling waters, wine or low carb vodka based punch (depending on my guests).
All legal recipes and I know the scale will go down, down, down!
Rack of Lamb
http://www.smh.com.au/news/general/an-ea...
Salmon Scaloppini over Linguine w Tomato Vodka Sauce
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/johnson/special...
Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding
Beef Wellington
Veal Scaloppini or Veal Marsala
Soup, salad, dessert, side dishes - the dishes you like.
Hungarian Goulash and Napa Valley Red Wine.
Hungarian rolled Palachinken -
similar to Crepes - for desert.
A nice meal and it is easy to make and looks impressive is chicken en croute.. Or simply put chicken in puff pastry. If you would like the recipe email me..LOL
Seafood pasta
Salad with slices of red onion, roasted garlic, and olives
Fruit tray with the works
Fresh hot bread
Soup lite and not heavy
and to drink a Reisling Wine
steak
hippo potomous