Food Ideas & Recipes

Sunday Brunch

The Sunday Brunch Shower is definitely one of my favorites! Begin the shower at 11:00am. Serve fresh bagels and muffins, fruit salad and quiche. You can also serve a cold cut platter with rolls to make sandwiches.

For beverages, serve fresh orange juice and coffee. If you want to serve alcohol, you can make Bloody Mary's, Mimosas or a champagne punch.

For dessert, serve cake, lemon squares and chocolate covered strawberries.

Cookies as Place Cards & Favors
 

I'm making cookies in the shape of a flower and a butterfly. I plan to decorate the cookies with icing and write each guest's name in icing on the cookie. These will serve as place cards and favors.

This is a family tradition, and is served at every wedding shower within our family. It's so easy!

Creamy Chicken Bites:

Mix together all ingredients, and place one heaping spoonful on each slice of bread. Place finished bread slices on a cookie sheet and broil in oven for about five minutes - or until cheese is melted. Garnish with parsley.

Mini-Cheesecakes

We served tiny cheesecakes that we had purchase at the store along with a cake for our dessert, everyone liked the miniature portions.

Dessert Shower
 

I had a dessert shower.  I decorated the whole table with lots of tulle and candles.  I made all chocolate desserts and decorated them with fresh flowers.  I served champagne and sparkling cider.  And of course had lots of strawberries for color!  It came out great, what woman doesn't like chocolate?

Light Finger Food
 

Light finger food - cheeses, crackers, fresh fruit, mini-quiches, blueberry cream puffs, crab dip and a bacon, egg and cheese casserole.

Salad Bar
 

I attended a bridal shower in which lunch was served with a Salad Bar. It was perfect for those watching their weight, (like the entire bridal party), while including an assortment of lean meats, cheeses, rolls & crackers. Two soups, vegetable & clam chowder, were offered in large crock pots.

Interspersed between and around the bowls of fruits & vegetables were whole pineapples, heads of cabbage, whole carrots in a vase, (with the greens left on), apples, oranges & bananas. The salad bar itself was a beautifully, colorful display. Some of the foods served included:

• Lettuce

• Spinach

• Shredded cabbage

• Shredded carrots

• Pickled Beets

• 3 bean salad/corn

• Alfalfa sprouts

• Grapefruit & orange sections

• Pineapple slices

• Pear & apple wedges

• Hard boiled eggs (halved)

• Cubes of lean Turkey & Ham, and an assortment of cheeses.

• Croutons & 3-4 different salad dressings.