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24 June 2009

Reassure me! The party's on Sunday and I'm totally freaking out. Will I have enough food? Will I have too much?→[More:]
I'm catering my father-in-law's 70'th this Sunday. It's an afternoon job from about 2 till 5. It's Winter here and miserable weather. We're expecting about 30 guests, many of whom have interesting dietary requirements. The menu is as follows;

- Spinach & Feta Pastries (warm)
- Onion Quiche (warm)
- Chicken Skewers (teriyaki & satay) (warm)
- Pumpkin Soup (warm)
- Vegetable Maki with my version of ponzu sauce
- Smoked Salmon on Pumpernickel rounds with a wasabi creme-fraiche dressing
- Cheese Plate (huge)
- Fruit Platter with Warm Spiced Chocolate dipping sauce

Everything is made in small bite-size pieces except the soup, which I'm serving in little cups. The warm stuff will be circulated on plates and everything else will be on a table.

Is it too much? To little? These people drink a lot so it's got to soak up some booze.

Any suggestions??

*hyperventilates*

post by: ninazer0 at: 20:03 | 8 comments

No suggestions, other than to say can I come? It looks great! I'll help you do the dishes :)

Does the cheese plate come with crackers? Large amounts of cheese and crackers can usually stabilize even a heavy drinking crew.

You could always get some chips for your pantry for back-up.

posted by Sil 24 June | 20:41

Wait, guess I did make some suggestions.

posted by Sil 24 June | 20:41

I might have one more sweet thing, like a platter of cookies or brownies. Of course, scratch that if there's going to be a birthday cake. It all sounds soooo good.

posted by Kangaroo 24 June | 20:55

Yeah, there's going to be crackers with the cheese platter and there will be a birthday cake, which is why there's only one sweet thing. Hmmm. I think I'll add a bowl of marshmallows on the fruit platter to dip in the chocolate and perhaps just one packet of those little pre-baked dinner rolls for the soup.

I'm trying to cover vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, lactose intolerant and a couple of allergies (but not, curiously, peanut). Should I put labels on each serving platter?

posted by ninazer0 24 June | 21:06

Just in case stock up on some corn chips, salsa and avocado because you can never go wrong chucking those out if you need to!

posted by gomichild 24 June | 23:18

She'll be right, mate!

posted by pompomtom 25 June | 01:21

Boy, that sounds like a grand party! And, too much food is always better than too little.

If you're making the effort to look after so many dietary restrictions, then it's a wonderful idea to label everything - takes the guess-work out of it for guests and you'll not be wasting time answering questions: "what's in this?" I'd just make it simple, (vegan, no gluten..) not an ingredients list.

posted by mightshould 25 June | 06:55

A dish of hummus served with carrot, celery and bell pepper sticks is good for vegans and carnivores alike.

posted by essexjan 25 June | 11:56

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