Korean Party- Simple Party Menu

Banchans/ Side Dishes: 
All of this need to be prepared in advance, and served in small bowls. However, a shortcut to this is to get all the stuff from supermarkets, if you have a bigger budget. I would suggest at least getting the kimchi  and the seaweed from the supermarkets, as it will make things easier.

Kimchi
Seasoned seaweed
Soybean sprouts Muchim
Spinach Namul
Garlic Chive and Cucumber Muchim
Bowl full of Big-leaf lettuce

Mains: 
Dwenjang Guk (Korean style miso soup)
Rice


Drinks:
Barley tea drink
Soju

Simple Entertaining- Housewarming Party- Treasure Hunt Centerpiece and Menu

Since a new house is only slowly getting stocked, coupled with the fact we are busy giving attention to the guests, we can keep it simple with the decor and meal. After all, guests are here to see the house and walk around chatting.

Set up a table for food and drinks, and use paper plates and cutlery to save time on cleaning.

Candles set the mood for a housewarming party, so maybe a centerpiece like this will be great!!

(pic credit: digsdigs.com)

Have chairs around to encourage people to sit while eating.

Suggested Menu:

To minimize mess, it's better to use food that can be held easily, or if it's wrapped separately.

Sandwiches

Satay/ meat skewers

Dips

Buns

Cookies

Mini pizzas

Samosas

Simple Entertaining- Happy 10th Anniversary Party Menu

Menu: 10 items (To be laid out)

Actually, it can be anything really, but as we are thinking of quantities of 10, we've to make sure it's easy to make and or easily bought.

So , here it is:

10 Sandwiches

10 Kebab sticks

10 Chicken Wings
10 Mini trifles
10 Ferrero Rochers
10 chocolate cream biscuits
10 custard tarts/ egg tarts

10 pieces of watermelon10 glasses of Wine

Last but not least, Number 10 cake

(pic credit: splodgecraftparties.co.uk)

Movie Night Party-The Incredibles Menu

Theme: Bright Orange (Incredibles)

Menu:

Pizza

Popcorn

Orange Skittles, M&Ms

Orange Gummies

I-shaped cookies

Orange fizzy drink

Vietnamese Party Menu

Main:
Vietnamese Noodles
Fresh Spring Rolls

Drink:
Cold Tea

Dessert:
Fruits

Shall we play cards? Menu

Mains:
Tuna Salad
Crab Salad

Drinks:
Mango Shake
Banana Shake
Honey Dew Shake

Dessert:
Cheesecake

Chinese Dinner For 10 Menu

Menu is as follows:

Main:

Rice

Fried Prawns

Pork Ribs

Steamed Fish

Stir fry Spinach

Stir fry French Beans

Bittergourd Omelette

Drinks:

Chinese Tea (example in pic above)

Dessert:

Fruits

(Pic above credits to culturalink.gov.cn)

Farewell Party Menu

For 50 people, we definitely have to have lots of food. so, we asked our guests to bring differnt variety, and then we have a lovely range and variety of food to enjoy. To ensure enough food, we have to have at least 5 types of what we call filling food (mainly carbos), and then the rest can be side dishes.

What we had in the end:

Asian Menu:

Filling food:

1) Fried Noodles (20 servings)

2) Butter Rice with Cashews (15 servings)

3) Plain Rice (10 servings)

Side Dishes:

Curry Chicken

Rendang Beef

Satay Chicken

Ginger Chicken

Butter Prawn

Mixed Vegetables

Vegetarian Spring Rolls

Caramelized Potatoes

Western Menu:

Filling Food:

1)Taco Pie (10 servings)

2) Pasta (10 servings)

Side Dishes:

Potatoes Patties

Beef Stew

Fried Chicken

Green Salad

Bean Salad

Desserts:

Fruits

Apple Crumble

Mocha Cake

Trifle with Icecream

Tea Break for 20 Menu

Sweets:
Cinammon Cake
Chocolate Chip Cookies

Savouries:
Garlic Bread-see recipe in collection

Fruits:
1 Watermelon- cut into slices
2 Papayas- Cut into cubes, served with toothpicks.

Drinks:
8 Bottles of Soft Drinks
2 Bottles of Water
1 Packet of Ice Cubes

Kids Wanna Have Fun Menu

Since kids have quite a short attention span, the preparation time should be fast and interesting, and they should be kept busy all the time. I found that these cookies fit the bill.

1) Cut out cookies

2) Ice cream cookies

Then, the jelly, there are many different kinds that we could do, but in the end, i opted for konnyaku. It's easy and it's suppose to be healthy..

3)Konnyaku Jelly

Recipes next..

Dumplings and Spring Rolls Menu

(oops, the dumplings will be in another pic!! )

Main:
Spring Rolls
Pan-fried Dumplings

Side Dish:
Stir-fry Bean Sprouts

This is a little obvious heh?

Recipes and more pics in the next few posts...

Anniversary Party Menu

My father likes lamb, and mum loves pumpkin soup so, naturally, lamb and pumpkin soup has to be part of the menu..

Starter:

Pumpkin soup and garlic bread

Main:

Herbed Lamb

Baked Potatoes

Carrots, peas

Dessert:

Cake

Drink:

Red Wine

Sparkling grape juice (for non drinkers)

Unexpected Guests- after dinner dessert

Rather than doing the usual, there's something classy and simple enough to do... a dessert that can really wow your friends. This is what i made: Coffee Banana Trifle !!


Many of my friends can't have coffee at night, but they absolutely love coffee, so this is an alternative. The recipe in the next post...

Hot and Spicy Menu

This menu is very simple, and everything can be done in 15 minutes. Check out the recipes, and you'll know why. The drink of lemonade is to help cope with the heat. And the dessert is to help cool down. Recipes next...

Main:
Tom Yam Noodles

Drink:
Lemonade

Dessert:
Ice cream (to cool down)

Game:
Hot hot hot!!

If you're wondering what that middle thing is, the centrepiece bowl is suppose to have sambal. (next post will have the pic of which sambal i use)

After Work Party Menu

All of this can be done in less than an hour, and with some help it'll even faster.
And if you go through the recipes later, you'll find that most ingredients are normal ones that can be found in the supermarket/ mini market nearby. So, if i need to entertain at the last minute, I'll just pick up the ingredients before i head back home.

Sausage pasta
This is really comfort food, I feel really satisfied after the meal because it's just delicious, and the best thing about it, I didn't slave in the kitchen for it!!

Salad

Our Veggies need only cutting and then combining with a herb vinaigrette.

Vanilla-rum colas
Yes, some do prefer to have the rum alone....hahaha...but if your friends are going to drive back after the party, it's best if they don't have too much alcohol. So, this should be just perfect!!

Dessert
Ice cream and chocolate sauce. Yum!!

Simple tea party menu

A tea party needs:


1)TEA!!
Lady Grey Tea
Lady Grey is a light, refreshing tea, pale gold in colour and infused with the flavours of orange, lemon and bergamot. Brew for 3-5 minutes. Drink black or with a little milk, or with a fresh slice of citrus fruit.

2) 2 sweets
Chocolate Peanut Butter cups
Chocolate

3) 1 savoury
Tuna dip with nachos

recipes tomorrow..

Movie night-doggie movie menu

Very simple menu...

Oreos
Chocolate love letter biscuits
Chips
Lots of Popcorn
Doggie Bone Cake

Soft drinks
Punch with fruits

Almost Vegetarian Potluck Menu for 15 people

It looks like we'll be having a nearly vegetarian potluck this time, not by intention, just that everyone prefers if we have more greens. That's no problem, that would mean that we have to balance it out with a little more carbo main meals.

So, after asking around, the menu will be:

Asian:

Fried Noodles

Fried Rice

Stir fry brocolli

Mixed vegetables

Fried Vegetable dumplings

Vegetarian meat ( specialty stores)


Western:

Pasta salad

Creamy potatoes



Dessert:

Chocolate slice

Konnyaku jelly


Drinks:

Fruit Punch

Barbeque menu for 20 people

Meat:
Estimating about 200gm per person, this should be more than enough for everybody with extras too. ( if your friends have a huge appetite, then consider getting more chicken wings, or 2 kg of pork ribs)

1 kg Grilled Fish
40 Chicken wings
1 kg Beef
2 kg Pork Chops

Salads:
We need vegetables to balance the barbeque meat, and salads are really refreshing and goes wonderfully with barbeque.


Lettuce and tomato salad
Potato salad
Garlic bread

Others:
Corn

Dessert:
We need desserts too. So, in line with our barbeque theme, we'll have:

Chocolate bananas
Watermelon

Drinks:
Soft drinks

Depending on how our budget goes, the balance can be used to buy wine or beer.