I'm having a little party Saturday and need food ideas?!
Answers: We are all 21-24. I have hot dogs, chips, beer, and soda. I need some ideas for food. Stuff that's just kind of fingerfoods and easier to keep outside.
BLT Dip.
1/2 Light Mayo
1/2 Sour Cream
Real Bacon Bits (I think the ones I buy are
Hormel - they are the soft ones not the crunchy
kind)
Diced Tomatoes
Bagged Shredded Lettuce
Mix the Mayo, Sour Cream and Bacon in a bowl. Refridgerate. One hour before your guests arrive throw in the Tomatoes and Lettuce. Mix. Serve with tortilla chips.
Since you are going to be outside, assuming you don't have a dish to keep it cold, I'd take a big bowl and put some ice in it and then put a smalley bowl with the dip ontop of the ice. Or maybe even freeze the dish you are going to serve it in and transfer it from the mixing bowl into the serving bowl?
Another suggestion is chunk up cheese and pepperoni. Serve with crackers.
My fave treat is Mary's Meatballs ( my mother in law makes them..hence, Mary's). Take bag of frozen meatballs, can of crushed pineapple, and BBQ sauce & put them in a crockpot. They are SOO good and SOO easy!
Leave the beer off
You can make a tray with shrimp and coctail sauce. You have the chips make some dip to go with it, and a tray with some sweets on it like brownies and cookies.
At my get-togethers, people always scarf down tortilla rollups. Mix softened cream cheese with green chilis and some spices (like garlic, onion and chili powder), and then spread it in a big tortilla or wrap. Then roll it up and slice at centimeter increments. These can be made quite healthfully if you want as well (light cream cheese, whole grain wraps), and the variety of spreads is limited only by your imagination. :) I hope your party is a blast!
There are several things that are quick and easy to fix: I do a nice hot sausage cheese dip.
Here is the hot sausage dip recipe:
2 lb. loaf of Velveeta
1 lb. ground beef
1 lb. hot sausage
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can diced tomatoes with green chilies, drained
1 medium onion
1 T. Margarine
1 (6-oz) can green chilies, drained
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
Brown crumbled ground beef and sausage in skillet; drain. In smaller skillet, saute onion in margarine until translucent. In crock pot, combine soup, tomatoes, green chilies. Add onion, beef and sausage. Cube cheese block. Add to crock pot. Add garlic powder. Cook on high approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour, stirring occasionally until well mixed and melted. Turn crock pot down on low. Serve with tortilla chips. Yeilds 12-18 servings.
You can also get some cocktail smokies and some BBQ sauce and brown sugar.
2 - 3 pkgs. cocktail smokies (more or less depending on #
of guests)
1 btl. Kraft Hot BBQ sauce
1 btl. Kraft Original BBQ sauce
1 Cup packed Brown sugar
Combine cocktail smokies, 1/2 blt. of hot and 1/2 btl. original BBQ sauce and packed brown sugar in crock pot. Heat on high, stirring occasionally, until sugar is melted and cocktail sausages are hot. Increase sugar and amount of BBQ sauce depending on how many guests you are planning to serve. Reduce heat to low and allow to simmer. (instead of 3 packages you may want to use 5)
Of course, you could do some sliced lunch meats and cheese trays, vegetable trays, fruit trays, besides your chips and dip. You could also do a big pan of baked beans.
The above recipes can be made up ahead of time, and be simmering so you can enjoy your guests and not be spending a lot of time preparing food.
Hope these ideas help you out. Have fun at your little party.
chex mix is one of my favorites!
Bite size pieces if chicken breast wrapped in bacon. Broil till down. Reallyyyyyy good. Have fun and enjoy a cold beer. Just be safe and don't drive. Have fun.
