What to fix for adult birthday party?!
What to fix for adult birthday party?
I am having my husband's family over for his birthday and need something low-fuss, cheap to fix for 12. Any suggestions?
Answers:
One of my family's favorites is a soup party. You can pick a couple of kinds of soup that are fairly popular, including your husband's favorite, and then make them in crock pots so that they stay warm and people can eat and mingle. Make a soup with some interesting noodles or that's tasty and you have a favorite for kids to old folks. This also solves the "some people are vegetarians" kinds of problems - you can make one soup without any meat for vegetarians, or even be sensitive to someone's allergies, etc. Also, you'll find that most soups are super easy and cheap. A couple of suggestions would be chili, potato soup, cheesy broccoli, chicken noodle, veggie beef, or just veggie.
The additions are easy as well - you can put out bowls of cheese cubes, for snacking or adding to soups, pretzels, bread and butter, breadsticks, etc - really, the additions are as you please and as much as you choose. Leftovers are nice and easy too - just chuck in Tupperware and you have lunch for tomorrow. So borrow some crock pots and have a much easier day for preparation - hey, go with cupcakes or decorated cookies for dessert and do the whole thing with as little muss and fuss as possible while looking like you've made a ton of food.
Source(s):
http://allrecipes.com/recipes/soups-stew...
http://www.soupsong.com/index.html...
http://www.cookingcache.com/cat/soup_rec...
With it being winter time, Chili would be good. I did this for my husband one time and had about 75 people or so. It stretches, you can add a lot of different stuff, ie: chips, cheese, onions, beans separately. So that everyone would like it somehow.
When i have the in-laws over for a Birthday party i all way order Pizza I dont know were you live but most pizza places have med pizza for like 5.00 each couldnt get easier and cheaper good luck
well if you are good on the grill burgers might be the way to go. or maybe meatball sandwhics.
I love cheap and low-fuss.
Here you go: Hors.' Tortiall chips with salsa and cheese & Chips with any dip. Cocktail sausages, put in baking dish add honey BBQ sauce oven 400 degrees 20 minutes done!
Main course: I did this great recipe on New Years from MSN it was the Rosemary Pineapply Ham... it was so easy and people were raving about it. Side dishes, you can make a potatoe souflee or a macaroni casserole.
Dessert: people freaked on how good the dessert was. Take a baking dish, butter it, add brown sugar on the bottom for a glaze, put pineapple slices, add yellow cake batter (from the box) <- but instead of water you add pineapple juice and add pineapple chunks. Bake as the box says.
Super easy can be done ahead of time. Good luck.
chicken
quesadillas!
Lowfuss = Stouffer's Lasagne, "Bag o' Salad" (romaine lettuce
of course), Italian dressing and breadsticks. Brush the sticks
with butter and sprinkle with grated parmesan and garlic salt.
If there is a Smart and Final by you, they have the really big trays,
much larger than you get at the grocery store or "Costco".
You can then get a cheesecake there for desert :-)
Have fun and Happy New Year!
amaretto, haha, if you want, but an open bar is always good, order chicken and steak too
salad, garlic bread and pasta
My dad makes these mouse cookies all the time for his parties. They are little chocolate mice made of hershey kisses, cherries w/ stems, almonds slices, red writing gel, melted chocolate, and Keebler chocolate graham cookie.
take a hershey kiss and 2 almond slices use the the red writing gel to stick the almond ears to the hershey kiss mouse head. After you have the head together then grab your cherry by the stem and cover the cherry in melted chocolate. After the cherry is covered w/ chocolate then stick the cherry to the flat part of the hershey kiss and place it while the hershey and cherry are together on the graham cookie. this is the body. use the red writing gel to make the nose and eyes. Then let chocolate dry.
Now you should have a cute little mouse cookie.