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Monday, October 30, 2006

Menu Redone

OK, I just published that menu and read through it and I've decided I've made this entirely too complicated. I think I will nix all salads and just do a large, Caesar salad. Then I will add another lasagna dish to give the menu some more variety. I think I will also scratch the last two appetizers and substitute in my crab, cream cheese, salsa appetizer but maybe add some other ingredients to that one (maybe avocado and something else?) That means the menu will look more like this. Please comment on this menu if you have feedback. Assuming I make enough of each dish, do you think it's enough variety?

Drinks

Appetizers
Salads
  • Caesar salad

Main Courses

Side
  • Garlic bread

Desserts (this is the set part of the menu - all from Piece of Cake)
  • Chantilly Cake - Moist chocolate cake iced in cream cheese frosting and topped with a lacy chocolate pattern
  • Chocolate Raspberry Buttercream Ganache - Layers of chocolate cake filled with raspberry, iced in buttercream & topped with ganache
  • Marionberry Poppyseed - Four layers of moist poppyseed cake filled with marionberry preserves & iced in cream cheese frosting.
Posted by Megan at 11:14 AM

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:42 AM

    good grief, I can't keep up. :)

    - If you drop an appetizer, I'd drop the pomegranate one not one of the last two (per previous post). Especially b/c it seems there will be some similarities to the crab/cc/salsa dip. (Which, btw, is fabulous and doesn't need any other ingredients, in my opinion.)

    - I'd offer a second lighter salad. With 35 people, there will be enough dieters who won't want Caesar.

    - Drop a main dish. You do not need three. The butternut squash lasagna adds little. You have a lasagna already and you have a vegetarian option already.

    -mavmomma

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  2. Megan12:10 PM

    The last two appetizers are more time-consuming and I was trying to lighten the load. Maybe I'll do one of the ones MB mentioned in her comment on the last post in lieu of those two. I might just do the spiced chips and then some guacamole to be served with the spiced chips and plain chips. That way it's both more adventurous than the usual and more traditional for those who prefer this.

    I think a second salad is a good idea.

    After I posted, I was thinking the same re: third lasagna. I think I will drop that one.

    Regarding Mavmomma comments on Cooking Light: I actually have found great success with most Cooking Light recipes I've tried. That said, I've been picky about which ones I've tried, so perhaps that is why I haven't found issue with the recipes yet.

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  3. Anonymous12:24 PM

    Yes, I had a string of several good CL recipes to start. Then it seemed I started getting off results here and there, and then it became more and more frequent. Then someone else in supper club mentioned it and everyone was like "YEAH ME TOO!"

    I think part of the problem is we all like baking, and many of those recipes in CL tend to be disappointing. I tend to think their meat/fish main course recipes are pretty good. Haven't done many apps from them.

    I like the idea of one guac to be served with two types of chips. Good balance.

    -mavm

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  4. Megan12:38 PM

    I found that, at first, I loved Epicurious. Then I kind of hit a string of bad recipes. I think the key must be to cherry pick from all the various places and always be very picky.

    I want someone to start a website called Cream of the Crop. And in order for a recipe to be posted, it must have been tested by 100 vetted (don't ask me how - I just want it to happen) foodie reviewers and have scored at least 4 out of 5 stars. Kind of like a Master's Massage thing, but with recipes.

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