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Mother's Day Early-Dinner Menu Ideas?
I've been asked to host an early dinner for my family on Mothers Day (nice...). I'm fine with it - I did it last year and it was fun. Here's the thing - Mother's Day is possibly the most hectic day of the year. I make breakfast for my step-mom in the morning, run over to my mother-in-law's for an afternoon / lunch visit, and now will be hosting approx 10 adults and a few kids for a 4:00 p.m. event at my house.
Any menu ideas? I'd like it to be nice, but obviously easy and preferably make-able-in-advance.
Oh - my cousin's wife (who so kindly volunteered me to be the hostess) suggested that I make the same pulled pork sliders / BBQ set-up that I did for a BDay party last year. If I'd like, she'll even bring cole slaw! Now that's team work:)
Re: Mother's Day Early-Dinner Menu Ideas?
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Lasagna
Crock Pot pulled pork
This calls for -
Lasagna, salad and garlic bread.
Well, I can sort of see why your step mom might not be a great idea at the big family dinner, but why not MIL?
Sliders do sound good. Just put out the pork and buns, make a salad, buy some potato salad and let your SIL bring the slaw.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
Two reasons why I don't invite MIL to the event at my house: (1) I would feel sort of jerky asking her to join the rest of "my family" w/o also asking other members of "her" family (i.e., H's aunts, etc.); mainly due to the fact that; (2) my family are sort of a$$holes. They drink a lot. Including the currently-bald cancer patient (who also smokes with abandon). My in-laws are reserved, sweet folks who I'm pretty sure think my kin are off their rockers (which they are). My FIL is a recovered alcoholic (sober 20+ years). He doesn't drink. When he's around, my uncle makes Betty Ford jokes. I love my in-laws. They would come out of obligation, but I'm pretty should they wouldn't want to.
I was thinking about doing a couple lasagnas - maybe a red and a white. Or do the pulled pork fallback.
In any event, am I wrong to think that it takes at least a medium amount of jackassed-ness to suggest that "we plan a dinner together" at my house, follow it up with an email to discuss menu, at which point you reveal that your intended contribution is, you know, shredded cabbage?