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I need your help deciding what the ideal menu for a public dinner would be.
Not knowing what would be the best dishes to serve is making this an impossible task.
If you will tell me your favorite foods, or point me to your favorite recipes, it would really help a lot.
You can list as many things as you like. They don't have to be fancy things at all. I am all about the comfort food baby! :)
This will be a mixed group of people so I would like to have something for everyone.
Cooking for a banquet is not as hard as trying to figure out WHAT to cook!
Everyone will receive feedback.
Thank you!
P.S. If all that was a lot to digest, pun intended, here is a summary: Please list all your favorite foods. (link)
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Okay, please don't rate this. I'd like to suggest some dishes, but I need more info. Some things, like fetuccine alfredo, would feed a lot of people but can't sit around long and can't really be reheated. So it would help us to know:
1) How many people are you feeding?
2) Are you planning on charging and, if so, do you want it to be cheap or more pricy?
3) What kind of facilities do you have? Like do you have a place to keep crock pots plugged in? Do you have real plates or will it be disposable only? Do you have a refrigerator to keep things that should be kept cold? Are you going to have room for things like salad dressing, butter, soy sauce, etc.?
4) Are the people who are eating going to have to be doing something else as well, such as listen to a presentation?
5) Are there mixed ages present, like toddlers as well as grandpas?
All of these things would factor into what kinds of foods I would tell you to serve. If you could please describe this, I will give you some very specific advice.
Sabine
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Rating: 3
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Hi there, I know you said not to rate this, but it is the only way to do this. If you ammend your answer, I will change your rating.
The purpose of this question was to hopefully get a couple hundred answers, from which to determine foods which are agreed on by the majority. If I could find 10 foods which better than 70% like, then everyone would have plenty to eat.
As for your technical questions: The venue isn't set. This is quite some time away yet. We will have full facilities to cook on site, plenty of outlets, and the ability to make fresh to order foods such as pastas.
Real plates, in theory.
Yes there will be refrigeration.
Yes we have room for all the sauces and such you mention.
The people will be doing something else. They will be socializing.
How many people? Could be 200, could be 2,000. It really depends on the response from the group.
Yes, mixed ages.
We may have a cover charge for the food/salad bar/ buffet, and if so we would want to keep it reasonable, say $10-15.
Thank you for you help, and I WILL check back to see what you have written.
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