Mara
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Kim here's what our menu is tonite....or shaping up to be anyway!! We have about 18 people so hopefully this is enough food, but I imagine most people will be drinking!
Drinks:
Champagne Sparkling Punch
Hot Mulled Apple Cider
Non-Alcoholic Pear and Apple Ciders
Eggnog spiced with Rum or Brandy
Various wines
Appetizers:
Cutup beef/pork tamales with toothpicks
Smoked salmon cream cheese dip with dill, crackers
Baked raspberry rosemary brie, bread or crackers
Artichoke Pesto from TJ's, crackers
Cutup dried sausage, cranberry cheddar cheese, crackers
Garlic filled olives; bleu cheese filled olives
Curried shrimp salad in romaine leaves
Mini mac and cheeses with gouda and emmenthaler, baked in mini muffin cups (got from latest Food & Wine!)
Random TJ appetizers in the frozen aisle (still have to go see what they have but probably mini seafood/crab cakes; potstickers and something else)
Small/Easy Desserts:
Variety of european small cookies
TJ truffle cups
Fudge bites
Orange chocolate hazelnut filled rolled wafers
Cutup sweet tamales with toothpicks
I was going to make a fun martini for the night, like make one up for the party, but I have done the champagne punch before and it's a huge hit typically, plus we have a huge beautiful optic glass punch bowl so it's more fun on presentation and then we aren't stuck in the kitchen making people drinks. I'm just trying to keep things easy for ourselves so we can enjoy the party rather than be prepping and cooking stuff.
Drinks:
Champagne Sparkling Punch
Hot Mulled Apple Cider
Non-Alcoholic Pear and Apple Ciders
Eggnog spiced with Rum or Brandy
Various wines
Appetizers:
Cutup beef/pork tamales with toothpicks
Smoked salmon cream cheese dip with dill, crackers
Baked raspberry rosemary brie, bread or crackers
Artichoke Pesto from TJ's, crackers
Cutup dried sausage, cranberry cheddar cheese, crackers
Garlic filled olives; bleu cheese filled olives
Curried shrimp salad in romaine leaves
Mini mac and cheeses with gouda and emmenthaler, baked in mini muffin cups (got from latest Food & Wine!)
Random TJ appetizers in the frozen aisle (still have to go see what they have but probably mini seafood/crab cakes; potstickers and something else)
Small/Easy Desserts:
Variety of european small cookies
TJ truffle cups
Fudge bites
Orange chocolate hazelnut filled rolled wafers
Cutup sweet tamales with toothpicks
I was going to make a fun martini for the night, like make one up for the party, but I have done the champagne punch before and it's a huge hit typically, plus we have a huge beautiful optic glass punch bowl so it's more fun on presentation and then we aren't stuck in the kitchen making people drinks. I'm just trying to keep things easy for ourselves so we can enjoy the party rather than be prepping and cooking stuff.