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Harvest Soiree- what do you think?
Harvest Soiree (mainly for Italians)
apps- cheese plate, grapes, copanata, brushetta, crackers, wine and a sig drink of mulled wine
Pasta dish- angel hair with marinara sauce
main- sausage and peppers, brats/beer/saurcraut on heros, mozz and tomato salad- more wine Sicilian red
dessert- italian pastry, caramel apple bar, smores over a fire pit- Godiva hot cocoa, chocolate dessert wine
Activities- Painting Pumpkins for the little kids, pinata (maybe), jack o lantern carving contest, maybe a spot for photos- decorated with pumpkins..etc which I can send to parents later, history of halloween hand out or game.
favors- recipe boxes with family recipes, geneology info I researched
Some activity for 1-3 yr olds like some sort of giant paper for them to color?? Ideas?
Re: Harvest Soiree- what do you think?
You've got kind of an Italian meets German meets American Fall mix which is fine, but I wouldn't call it "harvest". Harvest to me is squash, grains, apples, pears, spices.
I'd also kick out the tomato salad. Maybe sub in a spinach salad with dried fruits and nuts. Like pp suggested, figs are a great way to bring a more harvesty (I like that as a word) feel while maintaining a bit of the mediterranean mood. Olives would also work well.
Our Share of the Harvest:How a couple cooks from a CSA share. Pick Up Day Week 15
I agree with pp; a "Harvest" themed get together should have pumpkin, and squash, apples, and cranberries... foods that signify autumn.
A pumpkin ravioli or squash dish would seem more Harvesty to me, or a pumpkin or apple pie. Even a cranberry dessert.
Caprese feels like a summer dish to me; I'd serve a hearty cous cous or quinoa salad with autumn veggies (bringing in the squash here would work).
You guys are all right. I intended on making pumpkin soup and some of the other recipes you guys mentioned, but they are picky and only eat specific Italian foods. So, I was really limited in what I can make that they will all eat.
What do you think of the activities?
Pumpkin painting sounds fun. Pumkin carving could be a bit messy - unless you plan on using those really small pumkins - but those are kinda hard to "carve"...
For the little ones, you could cut a huge orange pumpkins out of construction paper and have them decorate (just cut black squares, triangles, circles, etc.) for them to make a face and they could use glue sticks to put the eyes, nose, etc. on the pumpkin cut out.
Apple bobbing is fun for the kids. Tie a string to the apple and hang it from a tree branch (if you will be outside) and they try to bite the apple.