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Ok ladies, need a menu review for a "mocktail" party
So this year to kick off the Christmas season, I'm hosting a "mocktail" party for my church ladies. I should have 25-30 ladies present, from the age of 24 to 75. Not many big drinkers in the crowd anyway, and no vegetarians. No dietary restrictions that I know of. Last year I hosted a "Souper Ladies" fellowship with different soups and sandwiches and it was well received, but this year, I wanted to be a bit different. I'm looking at doing this on a Thursday night from 6-8. Most of these ladies don't have school aged children, and they go to various other events on weeknights (OMG, they have SO many sales parties it's ridiculous) so the timing shouldn't be an issue. My DH has volunteered as their pastor to be the "bartender."
Menu--Sorry, I don't know how to link to recipes.
Savory:
Ham, swiss and poppy seed finger sandwiches (hot)
cheese wafers (like cheese straws, room temperature)
Bacon cheddar pastry bites (hot)
shrimp and ricotta puff pastries (hot)
veggies with parmesan peppercorn dip (cold)
mini sour cream and chive baked potato cups (warm)
spinach artichoke spread on crostini (room temp)
Sweets:
nutter butter truffles
cream cheese and raspberry fig tarts (made with raspberry fig jelly homemade by a lady at church)
Fruit with peppermint dip
Drinks: Apple Cider-tini, cranberry mockarita, Baptist champagne, water, and coffee with various creamers and chocolate dipped spoons
(Apparently, I like to use parentheses!)
Re: Ok ladies, need a menu review for a "mocktail" party
The food sounds good!
You could add hot chocolate as an alternative to the coffee, or at least offer decaf. In the evening, not everyone will want to load up on caffeine. A hot chocolate bar is fun, you can have marshmallows, flavored syrups, etc.
A quick lesson on adding links:
1) in anther window (or another tab), copy the URL you want to link to, for example www.awesomenutterbuttertrufflerecipe.com
2) in the compose box, type out the text you want to become a link. For example: nutter butter truffles.
3) Highlight that text.
4) Click on the tool bar icon that looks like chain links
5) paste the link from the website you're linking to
6) choose to open the link in a new window under the "target" options (so the reader doesn't navigate away from the message board website
7) click "insert"
That's all!
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Ok. I think I'll sub the cheese wafers for some pesto chicken mini skewers. Those wafers are a lot of trouble anyway!
And duh, hot chocolate! I knew it was missing something. Thanks for reminding me.
Off to try out this linking thing.
Not quite, hold up.
Ok, I don't get a separate box when I click the chain links. Am I supposed to? I'm using Chrome, is that the problem?
Got it, I had to switch to Explorer.
Nutter butter truffles
mini sour cream and chive baked potatoes
bacon and cheddar bites
The ham, swiss and poppy seed finger sandwiches (hot) and bacon cheddar pastry bites (hot) sound like they'd have similar tastes. I might choose just one of them.
For different presentation, I might do the spinach-artichoke as a dip. You have lots of little bites that need to sit on trays.
Desserts sound good. If you want to add something chocolate and simple, make box brownies as directed. Let them cool for a minute or two, then layer on these type mints (I think they're at Dollar General/Family Dollar), then spread with a spatula. Makes the whole thing taste like a GS Thin Mint cookie.
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I think it all sounds delicious and this may be the first time someone has proposed the first draft of an apps menu that is served at meal time and would fill people up like a full dinner. The whole thing sounds just wonderful.
It looks like you've thought of this because you indicated the different temps but you can definitely keep all that hot and warm stuff at temperature?
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I'm going to borrow the chafing dishes from church and get some sterno for those. It works well for church functions, so I'll just use them at home. I'm going to serve the veggie tray and dip in a pewter chip and dip server that I'll keep in the freezer until time to plate it up. It seems to work.
Thanks y'all!