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I want your ideas/recipes for my baby shower food... We are having it at 2pm so after lunch, and will hopefully be doing some pampering rather than games...
I am at a total loss for ideas of what food to serve. A few friends are very health concious so some healthy ideas would be great too...
The only things that I can come up with are dips and vegies/chips etc, and sandwhiches????
PLEASE HELP!!! :help:
What about a cheese fondue with vegetables? or a cob loaf dip? A fruit platter is always a hit too.
Perhaps a banana or carrot cake?
Also I have made fruit kebabs before - where you get the skewer and put pieces of fruit on it. You can just leave it fresh or you can lightly grill them.
I will try and think of some other ideas...
Small chicken skewers (using tenderloin strips is easy) grilled with a satay sauce / sweet chilli / BBQ sauce for dipping. Can be served warm or at room temperature. Mini quiches (warm or room temp) with spinach / bacon / salmon fillings. Meatballs (warm or room temp) - these can be made with beef / lamb / chicken / turkey mince depending on your preference. Pastitsies (sp) - pastries with meat or vegetable fillings (can be found in the freezer section of the supermarket if you don't have a local distributor) are nice too if you want something hot. Hope this helps and enjoy the baby shower!!
Tuna Mornay in Volivonts (make the mornay then fill the volivonts, top with a little cheese and pop in the oven for a few minutes. You can get mornay packs in the supermarket).
The fruit kebabs are always a hit, serve with some yogurt or honey for dipping.
Cheese and tomoato on crackers always works.
You can make veggie chips - use a veggie peeler to cut the veggies (potato, sweet potatoe, carrot etc), place on baking tray, spray with a little oil, put in a hot oven until crispy. Healthier version of chips.
Bruschetta
Spring rolls (not exactly healthy though)
You could go for some fun childish things like fairy bread and chocolate crackles.
rice paper rolls (can buy them from Vietnamese shops or make them. I have a couple of reciepies I can send)
Prawn or salmon cakes (AKA patties)
A cheese platter
Antipesto (sp?) - olives, sundried tomatoes,cheeses etc etc and appropriate bread on a platter. Actually, I think you can order these ready made from Coles and Safeway deli sections?
HTH - I have a million cooking books and LOVE this kind of stuff! have a great Baby Shower!
MG
yeah i was just going to suggest a cheese platter, or perhaps some fruit...
Mg seemed to cover all the good stuff lol ;)
LOL Colleen! And I have more!
Jelly cups
Orange Poppyseed cake
mini fruit pies
ham and cheese crossants
real choc hot chocolate (warm milk with choc shavings in it - YUM! Melt cooking choc, spread over surface, shave with veggie peeler, put on plate next to cup of warm milk. add to drinkers taste, let it melt and drink!)
Choc dipped strawberried
I could go on and on and on and on...!
MG - can we go to a party at your place!!!! Yum!!
I'm just waiting for MG to go on and on and on! It sounds great so far!
ok WardyGirl...
prawn skewers (stick a few on bamboo skewers, brush with a little garlic butter, cook - or leave the butter off)
cranberry and port truffels
potato omelets
cupcakes
biscuits in the shape of dummy's, nappies or baby's (Short bread and ginger bread work best)
going back to the hot choc - to keep in the theme of the baby shower - serve it in bottles
home made sausage rolls
"mince pies" (royal biscuits with a little white melted choc on top, a jaffa on toop of that and a mint leaf cut in half on either side of that. More a christmas thing but very tasty)
little hot dogs or sausages in mini bread rolls
salmon with a little sour cream and chives on either crackers or bruschetta
chicken wings and drummetts (messy though)
mini pizza (muffins broken in half topped with tomoato paste and whatever topping you like)
muffins (choc, apple whatever you like)
Fruit salad
mini nacho cups
danishes
ok, better go do assignment now...it's very overdue....
ETA: Forgot to add piklets and crumpets and scones
Damn I just lost my post...
I was saying YUMMMMMMMM I am getting hungry thinking of all this food...
Do you reckon I could put cheese on the fruit skewers???
AND MG - Do you wanna come and cater it for me???? LOL
Mel, you could but it would depend on the cheese and if everyone likes cheese - maybe do half with and half without? And I would come cater for you but am in the middle of exams and am having the WORST nausea and tiredness ATM! I even had to do a nanna nap today! It's taken me ALL day to write one paragraph for this stoopid essay! LOL! But I hope you have a GREAT baby shower! I can email receipies if you want anything expanded.
But if I have a baby shower, you can all come and stuff yourselves silly!
MG - What are you studying?
nursing - not even food related!
But a lovely career!!! Speaking from experience too!! What year are you up too and how are you going to fit in that little one!?!?!?! (Says me who is studying too)
Final year. Am taking maternity leave from work around christmas and hopefully will start a grad year either mid 07 or in sept 07 depending on where I can get one. otherwise I will go back to work and do grad year in 08.
cheese and pinapple on a stick (toothpick) stuck into a foil-wrapped jacket potato!
That was all the rage in the 1980s over here, can't think why it died out.
LOL after all of MG's suggestions... I only have one left!
At my baby shower we had brownies with felt nappies over them in pink & blue.
Wow, well I have nothing to add except I am definitely up for a party at MG's place :D
MG, I love all your suggestions. We are having family here next Sunday for the kids birthdays (DS & DD are a day apart), it's an afternoon tea thing and I'm sure I'll be putting heaps of your suggestions on the menu.
I'll put my hand up for your party too. Perhaps us BB girls can give you a BB Baby shower down the track a bit!
ooh! Wardygirl, for kiddies parties, put a little jelly in a cup and let it set, then add snakes or freddo's and add a different colour jelly and let it set! They love those! Or add sprinkles to the jelly. For older people, add things like little drink umbrellas!
Ice the cup cakes and top with lollies to make a face! (I like doing cupcakes instead of a big cake because then they can take it home without crushing it too much and they don't have to have it right away. Sometimes if you cut a cake it dries out. You could position the cupcakes to make a number or something)
you could make wedges for them (but baked instead of fried. Just cut the spuds and chuck in the over at 180 for about 45 minutes topped with a little olive oil. You could sprinkle paprika or chicken salt on them before cooking for extra flavour)
One my mum used to do was get ordinary biscuits like arrowroot and ice with coloured icing - cost effective and not bad tasting to kiddies.
honey crackles are always a hit with kids (receipe on the side of most cornflake boxes)
have fun at the party!
Is this what you're bringing to the meet Fletch? ;)
Oh i have a good one!
It's my favourite and it's so easy!
It's Spinach dip. And i know it sounds disgusting but it is really yummy!
I can't find the recipe, but i'll do my best to remember
You need:
one packet of frozen spinach
one tub of sour cream (lite i think, probably doesnt make a difference)
one can of water chestnuts
one packet of spring vegetable soup mix
one spring onion (i dont add this..)
Cook the spinach as the packet says. Drain as much liquid as possible from it.
Cut the water chestnuts and spring onion finely.
Combine the sour cream and the soup, add spinach, water chestnuts and spring onions. Mix well.
Serve with crackers.
Yum, i have all the ingredients to make it, i think i might have to go do it now!
:p
For corn relish dip all you need to do is buy a jar of corn relish and mix it with cream cheese or sour cream.
LOL the first thing I thought of when I saw this post was corn relish dip because that's the only one I know how to make!
That spinach dip sounds lovely! Hey Fletch do you think that's the same one that you and I were demolishing a few weeks ago that was in the big bread roll?
Mum always made french onion dip just with soup mix and sour cream.
There ya go.. just google it Fletch ;) lol. Actually, the womens weekly site has pretty good recipes on it.. dunno about dips.:
Spicy Avocado Dip
2 medium fully ripe avocados, peeled, pitted
1 container (16 oz.) BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
1/4 cup green onion slices
1 envelope GOOD SEASONS Ranch Salad Dressing & Recipe Mix
1 Tbsp. lime juice
1/2 tsp. ground red pepper (cayenne)
MASH avocados with fork or potato masher until smooth.
ADD remaining ingredients; mix until well blended. Cover. Refrigerate 1 hour or until chilled.
SERVE with WHEAT THINS Snack Crackers, cut-up fresh vegetables or chips.
You can also do a gherkin one with a jar of gherkin relish and philly cheese, or sweet chilli sauce and philly cheese.
How to make dips, the Ryn way:
1. Go to the supermarket
2. Go to the "dips" section.
3. Pick some dips.
4. Pay for them and go home.
Seriously, I thought making dips looked like more trouble than it was worth! LOL. I like sour cream and chive, or garlic and herb, and I know I'm way too lazy to be bothered with standing and chopping up chives, garlic and herbs when I know DH will help me eat it.
Hummous (sp?)
1 can chick peas
1 clove garlic
1 twist of lemon (or 1-2 tbsp)
1 tsp cumin
2 tbsp olive oil
salt to taste
Stick it all in a bowl and use a hand held blender or puree it all somehow. If its too try add water ;)
Or my guacomole
1-2 ripe avocados
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp chilli
1 tsp coriander or 1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
salt & pepper
Mix well yum!
Or when I lived in mexico we did the same thing but made it really chuncky with 2-3 avocados & 1 red onion chopped finely and 1 tomato chopped.
ok what about tuna dip? Get a tub of philli and a tin of tuna with flavourings (salsa, onion, curry etc etc)
add some spring onions and blend.....yummo :)
basically you can make any type of dip. Start with some philli and add different things. Then you will find the one that tastes best :)
How about I go out on a limb & suggest something a little different, although it's not Zane friendly ;)
Mix together sour cream, brown sugar & Baileys, just add however much of each until it works out nice LOL!! It is soooooo good.
Also, vegemite dip is pretty good - vegemite & sour cream mixed together.
Lol Ryn .....love ur thinking!!!!!!!!
And that spicy Avocado dip looks delish...yummo :)
This is a great layered dip to go with corn chips.
Start with a small layer of 4 bean mix that has been drained really well (or mexe-beans or any other bean you like). Then tip some salsa (from a bottle over it) then a layer of really basic avocado dip (mush up lemon juice, cream, ripe avocado, chilli powder & salt to taste and an optional teeny weeny clove of crushed garlic), then a layer of sour cream and sprinkle some grated cheese over the top. Make sure the layers are all really thin or it ends up too thick - for some reason if you mix it all together it doesn't taste half as nice as it does layered.
Baba Ghannouj or Mtabbal Bathinjan (eggplant dip)
* 1 large round eggplant (aubergine)
* 2 or 3 cloves of garlic
* 60 milliliters (4 tbs.) tahina
* 60 milliliters (4 tbs.) lemon juice
* salt, red pepper
* olive oil
* chopped parsley
Cook the eggplant in a hot oven or on a fork over the flame of a gas stove or on BBQ. When it is well cooked through and the skin is blackened, douse with cold water, peel, and chop into small pieces.
Mash two or three cloves of garlic to a paste with about the same volume of salt. Add eggplant, mash to a smooth consistency and blend the tahineh and lemon juice. Serve in a bowl with little olive oil on top and garnish chopped parsley and a dusting of red pepper.
To get that yummy smoky flavour its best to BBQ it. Poke a hole in the skin so it doesn't pop everywhere.
Ah Dachlostar! Thats one I always make for parties, well close to it, its called the 7-layer dip.
1st layer = refried beans
2nd layer = mix 1/2 packet taco seasoning with sour cream.
3rd layer = guacomole
4th layer = salsa
5th layer = lettuce chopped thin & fine
6th layer = cheese
7th layer = tomatoes & sliced black olives
Our 7-layer Mexican Dip :)
Mel.....I made these for Charlie's birthday......right off the side of the RiceBubble box:
Chocolate Crackles
4 cups of Rice Bubbles
1.5 cups icing sugar
1 cup dessicated coconut
3 tablespoons cocoa
250 block of Cohpa
~ In a large bowl, mix rice bubbles, icing sugar, coconut and cocoa
~ Melt the Copha over a low heat in a saucepan
~ Pour the Copha over the dry ingrdients and mix well
~ Spoon into paper cases and refridgerate until firm
The recipe says it makes 24, so if you are going "mini" it would make stacks more........
I am contemplating having a dip dinner over here....;) just 7-layer dip
Well I have a spinich one too but its a little different to the one Genuinesqueek posted,
I love love love this one it is just so moreish and I am telling you once you start you cant stop even if your not a huge spinach fan LOL
Combine equal amounts of:
S&W whole egg mayonnaise ( has to be S&W or its not quite the same )
Light sour cream
Add to taste:
Spring onion soup mix ( I think this is actually called french onion soup mix as I have yet to find a spring onion soup mix )
(start with only a small tspn & add gradually as can overpower dip really quickly allow dip to sit in fridge for a little while before adding more as it often gets stronger in flavour the longer its left)
Add:
1 can finely sliced water chestnuts
I pkt cooked (drain really well of water once cooked) & cooled frozen spinach
I highly recomend this one cant rave about it enough and now I am wanting to go to the shop to make it LOL *drool drool *
Enjoy
and OMG how yummo do some of these sound I am deffinately going ot be the dip queen at the next party I go to hehehehehe
*bump*
MG are you having a baby shower? I wanna come :D
Not at this stage Danni. I don't really have time to organise one with exams next month, a heap of Uni work to get done and am anticipating a heavy fire season - and I intend to still turn out as much as possible!