Pirate Dinner for 14 Adults - Help!?

Question

Hi everyone, I'm making dinner for about 14 adult non-vegetarian PIRATES and I really need ideas for what to make. Also, where I'll be cooking, there aren't any ovens - just hobs - eek! Please help, I've got no inspiration about pirate food at all - I was hoping to do 3 courses and prepare some stuff at home beforehand. A lovely big fat ten points for the winner xxx

Answer 1

Heres a couple of sites : www.chiff.com/entertain/pirate
www.partymerchant.com/pirate
entertaining.suite101.com/article.cfm/kids
The internet is a great place to start.

Heres a recipe for a pirate cake but you could make a more sophisicated version with a mud cake. or look up a recipe for treasure chest cake on the internet.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
2 baked 9" or 10" round cakes
3 to 4 cups chocolate icing

Decorations:


Chocolate wafer sticks (such as Pepperidge Farm Pirouette Cookies)
Milk chocolate wafer rolls (Waffeletten cookies)
Several pieces of white or off-white paper
3 10" wooden skewers
Malted milk balls
Rolo candies
Root beer barrels
Plastic pirate figures (we used Playmobil), washed thoroughly
1. Cut the cakes in half and layer them, rounded sides all facing the same direction, adding a thin coat of chocolate icing between the layers.

2. Trim the bottom curves of the cakes slightly to help them sit flat, then turn the cakes upright, as shown. (Tip: If necessary, wrap the cakes in plastic and chill in the freezer to make them firmer. Also, two drinking straws stuck through the four layers of cake will help keep them together.)

3. Cover with the chocolate icing, then create planking lines along the hull with a butter knife. Chill at least one hour to firm the icing.

4. Use dabs of icing to anchor wafer stick gunwales along the edge of the deck.

5. Press the wafer rolls into both sides of the ship for cannons.

6. Cut sails from the paper, then slip them onto the skewers and set the masts in place.

7. Add malted milk ball cannonballs, plenty of Rolo gold booty, and root beer barrels, then station a few pirates to keep watch.

8. For safety, place the candles in the cookie cannons, far from the paper sails. Also, make sure that the surface on which the cake rests is impervious to wax, as the burning candles will drip.

Other food to serve up is a treasure trove of fishy delights from the sea. Clam Chowder - only needed to be heated up. Boulibaise also made there if you want. A fish stew served with rice.Tuna fish casserole - also made at home and heated up in the microwave. Fish and chips - made there. Crunchy fish skewers. Poached ocean trout. Seafood rissotto, crab cakes, seafood stirfry. Maybe a selection of cold seafood for starters. Make sure there are lots of bread rolls and salads - even a sea weed salad, sushi is good as well, you could maybe order some suchi and then deserts.

There is the pirate cake, cheese cakes, fruit salad and make a exotic citrus punch with lots of oranges floating in it for the cure of scurvy. Also pirates love rum so some rum and mixers - pine apple juice, other juices etc.

Get a big chest from a cheap store and decorate it like a pirate chest and fill it with lollies and chocalates. you could even make a game out of finding the treasure chest with a map etc. and serve the treasure chest with port and coffees for afters.

Hope I have been of some help. Use you imagination and I am sure people will have a great time.

Answer 2

Here is a website that may help, if you click on the dishes listed in the menu, they give recipes. Most of this could be made ahead and warmed to serve, or keep warm in Pyrex Portables.

Good luck! May you have enough Grog...Arrrr!

Answer 3

do sea food......like fish, shrimp, and maybe even seaweed!

for a drink you can just use water...put a salt shaker in the middle of the table and say, "If you dont like regular water, go ahead and put some salt in it" (sorry that was random but whatever)

waaaaait. are they real pirates??? 0.o