Do you have catered meal ideas I can use?
Our singles ministry leadership group is cooking a catered meal for a Valentines Day dinner as a fundraiser for our group.
I am the event planner, but not a cook. I can make a stellar brocolli salad, but just brain block when I look at recipes for main dishes and side dishes for this.
Do you all have ideas for a main dish, beef, pork, or chicken, it doesn’t matter and then side dish ideas?
Actual recipes that I can go by for cooking would be great too.
Thanks for the help I am reallllly struggling with this!
Heck if you want to plan the whole meal, let me know. I truely welcome any help.
I have to put this to voting, I seriously can’t pick a best answer. You all were so helpful and I thank all of you very very much. I am sending this to the leadership group for them to decide on what we should use!
Thanks again everyone, your priceless!
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I do a lot of catering myself for my stores scrapbooking retreats. So heres a stab at a menu.
Coffee, tea, soda
chicken:
Get chicken breasts and bake at 350 with a spread of olive oil, celery salt, pepper and salt.
Side dishes,
potatoes with butter and parsley. Make the potatoes as if you were making potato salad (dice up and boil) then sauté them in butter and add parsley and a little more butter. Small white potatos work great too.
Green been casserole. Mushroom soup (condensed), diced onions with french cut green beans. You can put canned onions on top for garnish. Bake at 350 for about 1/2 hour if that. Just needs to be warmed through.
Your Stellar Brocolli salad
Dinner roll and butter
Dessert:
A simple white cake decorated with white and red frosting.
The best thing I can do for you is give you the website where I get most of my recipes. Scroll down this screen and you will see what I mean.
As for side dishes, buy large bags of vegetables to heat up and serve:
Tossed salad: Chopped romaine with dried cranberries, chopped walnuts, chopped apples or pears and raspberry vinaigrette for dressing.
Chicken Divan: (Very easy and can be prepared ahead).
Chicken breasts (boneless) cut into bite sized pieces. Saute the chicken in butter until cooked through.
Frozen Broccoli spears: Thaw and line 9 X 12 buttered pan or tin pans with spears, put some with crown towards outside dish, next one with crown facing the other way until all spaces are filled.
Top the broccoli with the cooked chicken pieces.
Cut up a box of Velvetta Cheese into small squares and top the chicken with the cheese.
Take 2 large cans of Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Chicken soup undiluted. Spread over the top of the cheese.
Top the cheese with a generous sprinkling of Italian bread crumbs.
You can cover and keep in refrigerator until ready to serve or prepare and put in freezer until the day before you need it. Thaw and cook as desired.
When ready to bake; put in 350 oven and bake for 35-45 minutes or until bubbly. This has always been a big success when we have served it at church dinners.
For dessert: Strawberry Short Cake
Serve pound cake or Angel food cake slices topped with sweetened strawberries and whipped cream or to make it even more special; top cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream topped with strawberries and then whipped cream.
Very easy and delicious meal!!
I D K, but I can give you moral support in the form of a star !
I wish we lived closer. I would love to cook for you and your group.
How many people are there?
Budget?
Email me, I will give you a complete romantic menu, if you want that is.
I am all about easy and it doesn’t hurt to stay with what ya know so make your salad:
Crunchy Pecan Chicken
Wild Rice
Stellar brocolli salad
Chocolate cake with chocolate icing, drizzled with rasberry sauce
Tea, water, coffee
Rolls if you wish
Recipes
Crunchy Pecan Chicken:
1 cup bisquick
1/2 tsp. creole seasoning (I use Tony Charechers)
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 cup chopped pecans
4 chicken breast
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup butter melted
350 degrees. Combine first 4 ingredients. Soak chicken in buttermild for 1 hour (more makes it tender). Coat with dry mixture. Place in greased 9×13 pan. Pour melted butter over checken and backe uncovered one hour. You can make dry ingredients ahead of time.
Container of wild rice. Follow instructions on container. Use chicken broth in place of water.
Make a box chocolate cake and top with chocolate fudge icing. Drizzle with rasberry sauce.
Rasberry Sauce. Put frozen or fresh rasberry’s in a sauce pan with sugar and a little corn starch to make it thick. Bring to boil, stiring and smashing rasberrys constantly. Serve warm over cake. If this is too time consuming then just sprinkle each piece of cut cake with powdered sugar and top with a few fresh rasberry’s or strawberry’s.
Wanna add an appetizer? Serve a wedge of iceberg lettuce covered with bacon bits, blue cheese and blue cheese dressing. If you don’t like blue cheese, then substitute blue cheese with ranch dressing and feta cheese.
Trust me – your gonna love it all.