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Originally Posted by jgranzier
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1. Make it easy on everyone, including you and your wife: make it a buffet with some stuff catered, some home-made. That way, you can spend less time prepping and more time enjoyoing yourself.
2. make some hors d'oeuvres and have some made. Different but cool stuff like
a. small roast peppers filled with cheese (25)
b. a shrimp mound (1)
c. a mimosa punch bowl filled with orange juice and inexpensive sparkling white wine-- or a sangria punch, or both. (1)
d. get a gallon of vanilla ice cream or ice milk and let it melt, then stuff a bunch of dixie cups with fruit and pour the ice cream into them. Freeze and when ready to serve, flip upside down into shortcake. (15)
e. Slice French bread (2 x baguettes) thin and get small plates. On one plate put the bread, on the other, a mix of olive oil and several types of pepper (10)
f. Small shish kabobs of red-yellow-green-pepperoncini peppers, small onions, big mushrooms and meat balls made of ground beef or lamb (10)
g. A cold pasta salad (1)
h. Go to the Italian store and get a mix of multiple ravioli: cheese, meat, and m,ushroom+garlic, if they have them. Cover with their own spaghetti/red sauce and serve as a hot dish (50)
i. Order two roast chickens.
j. Make 25 mini bacon cheeseburgers.
Ok, there ya go.
Not expensive, pleases everyone.
And since this is an occasion, order some good beer: MGD, Miller light, Heineken, Heineken light, and a couple of Fischer's.
Or get a keg from the local microbrewery.
Wine: a pinot grigio a chablis or chardonnay for the white. For the red, with this food, only lambrusco and chianti.
Whaddaya think?