Murder Mystery Dinner menu ideas needed
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Comments (6)It sounds like you already have some ideas. I think there are so many different things you can make with just the veggie and sea food ingredients that both you and your guest enjoy. I think a Thai style menu would work well I also think an Indian style menu would work If you don't consider it too exotic for your palate give it a try. You don't need oven or microwave to make either of these cuisines and a rice can be cooked in your rice cooker in no time. Thai Menu: Some type of soup or your salad would be fine but dress it with a soy peanut and lime dressing. Use lettuce, bean sprouts, scallions and grated carrots to give it an asian feel. Instead of croutons sprinkle some toasted peanuts to finish it off. For the main course make a thai style shrimp curry. You can make your own curry or buy a store bought (Any Asian market will sell it). Mix the curry with couple of cans of coconut milk. Let it simmer until it's thick, add the shrimps to it, squeeze of lime and garnish with cilantro. Serve it with rice. You can also make a vegetarian pad thai as yet another dish if you'd like to go elaborate. All you need are some rice noodles that you soak in hot water and then stir fry them with veggies of your choice (even frozen oriental mix will work). Ensure you use garlic and ginger as you stir fry it and add some soy, sugar, lime juice and scramble eggs. Finally add the noodles. Garnish with lime quarters and cilantro Dessert - Mango Icecream or Sorbet. Hagan Daz makes many exotic versions of this. It's a fitting end to a Thai meal. Indian Menu Salad - You can use whatever salad you planned to. Try to find some pappadums that you can fry up (available at Indian stores). Also buy a few dipping sauces (green and red also available at Indian store, known as chutneys). Pappadums can be served with a salad and some dipping sauces as a starter Main - Make a shrimp curry. Again coconut milk cans and perhaps Patak or any other ready to make curry mix. It's easy and results are very good. Add shrimps, garnish with cilantro Spicy Potatoes and cautliflower - Make this Indian style. Chop an onion and fry it in oil. Add curry powder to it along with some freshly grated ginger and garlic. Add the potatoes and cauliflower. Cover and cook it until tender. Garnish with cilantro. Dessert - Mango Icecream will work well with this too....See MoreMurder Mystery Dinner Party Games
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Comments (3)I've been to one, and it was great fun. I had to dress up as a femme fatale! Sort of "murder on the orient express". The hostess made it easier on herself by asking guests to bring a starter or dessert. During starters, we had some wine and went over the various scenarios of the game. We tried to stay in character (we were given our "parts" in the mail with the invitation). The hostess made the main course, and that is where the bulk of the "questions" were asked. It was simplek---cornish hens with baked potatoes and veggies; nothing fancy to stress her out. Dessert was back in her family room with eventual "who dun it" solved. Not sure you can ask guests to bring stuff, but make it as simple as possible. Your food will not be the focal point of the party; the guests and their alter-ego will!! Good luck!...See MoreNeed help finessing Hanukkah light dinner menu
Comments (15)Update: Dad said he wanted matzoh ball soup. He has new neighbor friends he's invited to dinner, and he's been talking up the soup so he wants me to make it. I think that means I am going with chicken for the protein. I'm torn on what to make. My Moroccan chicken recipes are one with apricots which is only slightly orangeish due to being colored with paprika, and the other one is with saffron and peas and golden raisins and is yellowish. I could add some red pepper and cabbage to either recipe. But neither one calls for tomato. I am getting that mixed up with Mediterranean style chicken. Mom has a great recipe for chicken cacciatore which is flavored with mushrooms and rosemary, but my husband turned up his nose at the idea of mixing Italian style chicken with latkes. I don't know, I'm wondering the same thing. Using one of mom's recipes has some sentimental appeal though. I also have some home made plum sauce that I could use, it needs to get used up and is pretty basically sweet and sour but kind of purplish brown, not particularly pretty but again, I could add red peppers and cabbage. I will definitely make a beet salad. I have two recipes for a salad similar to the one you describe Agmass. Both are in the Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special Cookbook. I've made both. One is called Lobio and calls for red kidney beans instead of beets! The other is called "Syrian Beet Salad" and is a basic marinade. I was not too crazy about the taste and texture combination of red kidney beans and walnuts when I made the Lobio recipe, although it looks good! Has to be carrot cake for dessert. My dad is notoriously picky and that's all he would agree to....See Moremaiaa
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