Dinner Partay!

[Gina]

How about a kabab platter with assorted dips and sauces PSQ? And lots of cold mezzah like hummous, moutabal, tabuleh etc?

[X2]

Re: Dinner Partay!

cold noodles with peanut sauce always goes well as a good starter, some cold springrolls with veggies and diff dipping sauces, plum, peanut and hot sauce choices.

fresh ginger ale for drinks

[Reha]

Re: Dinner Partay!

@Niksik

That lady was a cheapo, she didn’t put any coconut milk zalim.

The coconut milk makes a huge difference…tellin ya Nikki…its amazing.

@redvelvet

^ I think a Thai theme would be interesting.

The chicken wings would go with the anti-pasto platter. Because you said you wanted to serve cheeses and meats…so the chicken wings will fall into the meat cattegory. Hmmm…you could do a cheese/veggie/meat platter for starters. So, you can have a platter of veggies n dip, cheese n crackers, and chicken wings. That’s an interesting combination because you’re hitting the various food groups. You could even put bread wedges with dip such as hummus/baba ghanouj, spinach artichoke dip, etc.

I think it’s fun to make appetizers of different textures. So the Khao soy provides a wet…soup-like texture. The chicken wings would provide a crispy texture. And the third appetizers can provide a softer texture: such as steamed dumplings OR sushi. So you have a party or medley varying textures going in your mouth.

Steamed dumplings or wontons…do you know how to make them Aisha?

@X2

cold noodles with peanut sauce always goes well as a good starter, some cold springrolls with veggies and diff dipping sauces, plum, peanut and hot sauce choices.

fresh ginger ale for drinks

Excellent!!! Thank you all!

[RupayHalwa]

Re: Dinner Partay!

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[midnighteyes]

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The coconut milk makes a huge difference...tellin ya Nikki...its amazing.

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We dont put coconut milk in it either, because my MIL finds it too heavy like that, so I only learnt to make it without it. Can you please tell me how to make the curry with the coconut milk, would love to try it like that. Thanks!!!

[Reha]

Update: Dinner Party was a success!!!

I ended up cooking for about 25 girls but loved it!

traditionally the coconut curry is not seperate from the meat, meat is already in the curry, you get better results with egg noodles rather than spaghetti. garnishments are (they vary quite significantly by region as the dish is consumed in china, thailand, china) onions, greenonions, fried onions, slices peppers, chopped boiled eggs, chopped fried garlic, chopped cucumbers, lemon, parsley, cilantro, crunchy noodles, some people also have dried fried pawns, crunchy noodles.

I ended up using spaghetti because Ive never used egg noodles, didnt want to mess up with a first attempt.

My meat took 6 hours to make because I forgot about the damn pressure cooker...:(

The coconut curry sauce was separate but for some reason it was a bit sweet for me...so I did something crazy that actually worked: I did bay leaves and zeeray ka baghar. It was the perfect kick!

For garnishments, I did:

Chopped onions

Fried onions

Chopped green chillies

Chopped boiled egg

Chopped cilantro

Lime wedges

I couldnt find crunchy noodles so I fried long strips of egg roll wrappers and made choora of them.

We dont put coconut milk in it either, because my MIL finds it too heavy like that, so I only learnt to make it without it. Can you please tell me how to make the curry with the coconut milk, would love to try it like that. Thanks!!!

I only know how to make it with coconut milk and its superb!!! I will post the recipe soon, Inshallah! :)