I need food ideas for a 15 person bridal shower at my home. I want to serve some nice dishes.?

Question

What can I serve for the main dish and some sides? I will have some appetizers and a salad and a cake for dessert, what else can I serve. No Italian food. No Mostaccholi or baked chicken or roast beef either. Not the same old stuff you get at these things but something nicer that most of the girls will like.

Answer 1

why not chinese? they have websites that tell you how to make different chinese dishes.. oo or mexican:]

http://allrecipes.com/

Answer 2

A nice lite pasta salad always gets a hit among the ladies. Your choice of small pasta, my suggestion is orraccetti (little ears). Some chopped italian pepperoni, roasted red peppers and artichoke hearts mixed with kalamata olives, chopped celery, and a little red onion with a little drizzle of Italian dressing (your choice).

Try some sushi rolls if you are brave enough. You can get the traditional nori sheets at any grocery store but if that's not you're flavor use rice paper sheete instead. Then they will become summer rolls. Use fresh veggies, crab or shrimp and sticky rice and you've got a finger food hit. Good luck!!!

Answer 3

I gave a bridal shower about a year ago and here's what I served:

1. Grilled chicken tenders on skewers (marinate overnight in Italian dressing)
2. Baby spinach salad with bacon, feta, and mandarin oranges and french dressing.
3. Pasta salad with rotelle, chunks of salami, feta, red bell pepper, green onion, olives and Berensteins Cheese Fantastico dressing (let sit overnight)
4. Chinese chicken salad with sesame seeds
5. Artisan breads and sweet butter
6. Cheese platter with green globe grapes, Spanish Manchenga, Brie with mushrooms, Cambozola, and a fontina, along with sliced baguette and lavosh crackers.
7. White Chocolate Raspberry cheesecake
8. Punch (Pelligrino sparkling water, Torani's Raspberry Syrup, frozen lemonade, limes)

It turned out well, and everyone loved the food!

Answer 4

Assuming this is a winter affair - do a soup bar! Make 3 or 4 kinds of homemade soup and set them out for people to ladle up themselves. Use an assortment of mugs and pretty spoons. Have plenty of good bread available. This will compliment your salad well and let people choose their portion size. When I have done this I usually do a crab bisque, a beef vegetable, a cream of mushroom, and a lentil soup, bean soup or black bean soup.

Another idea is Hot Chicken Salad - a favorite for club parties. I serve it with crescent rolls.
http://watlington.homelinux.org:8000/recipes/hotchickensalad.html

Have fun!

Answer 5

tea sandwiches (merely like turkey and chees decrease into 4 triangles each and every. Make approximately 10 or 15 sandwiches & decrease them up. grant mayo & mustard in separate dishes. which would be 2 - 3 to all and sundry. you are able to make much less in case you elect yet they are very easy. i admire layered dip. Delish! that could desire to be adequate... each and every thing you listed plus the tea sandwiches. merely purchase some categories of soda (like a 2 ltr each and every or pepsi, coke, dr pepper & nutrition ordinary coke counting on what you and your travellers like... additionally make some tea. very almost all and sundry loves tea!)

Answer 6

This is a strictly top shelf dinner and recipe... ENJOY

Lobster Tails Thermidor Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray
Show: 30 Minute Meals
Episode: Seductive Supper

4 (6 to 8-ounce) packaged lobster tails, shell jumbo shrimp or prawns can be substituted
4 tablespoons butter, divided
1 small white onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Splash dry white wine or dry sherry
1/2 cup milk, eyeball it
1/3 cup grated white cheddar
1/2 teaspoon paprika or crab boil seasoning, recommended: Old Bay
2 tablespoons Parmesan
2 tablespoons bread crumbs
Handful parsley leaves mixed with 2 cups baby greens, for plate garnish
Lemon wedges, for garnish

Bring a pot of water to a boil, 3 or 4 inches deep. Add lobster tails to the water and boil 7 to 8 minutes. Drain and shock under cold water to cool. Use kitchen scissors to cut away soft underside of tails. Remove meat and save the shells, arranging them in a shallow casserole dish. Chop the cooked meat on an angle into chunks.
Preheat your broiler to high.

Heat a medium skillet and a small saucepot over medium heat. To the small saucepot, melt 2 tablespoons butter. Add finely chopped onion and cook 3 to 5 minutes until very soft. To the skillet, add remaining 2 tablespoons butter. When the butter melts, add chopped lobster meat and saute.

Add flour to sauce pot with onions and cook together another 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in wine or sherry, then milk. Remove sauce from heat and stir in cheddar cheese and paprika or crab boil. Season sauce with salt and pepper. Pour sauce over lobster meat and stir to combine. Pour lobster into and over the shells in a casserole dish and top with Parmesan and bread crumbs. Broil on high until golden, 2 or 3 minutes. Serve each tail, spilling over with lobster bits in sauce, on a bed of mixed baby greens and parsley with wedges of lemon along side.

To make this dish with jumbo shrimp, cut up peeled, deveined raw shrimp. Saute the shrimp in butter, as with cooked lobster. Cook until pink and firm and proceed with method. Place the shrimp and sauce into a small casserole, then spoon completed shrimp Thermidor over bed of greens and parsley leaves.

Good Luck
Hot Doggggg

Answer 7

what about a taco bar, who doesn't love tacos!!!! and it would be very different! have your meat and all the fixins, maybe some Mexican rice and refried beans also in some crock pots. Yum!!!! or you can make it a nacho bar