Help me plan menu for Mom's wedding.

[Cort]

Good of a place as any:

Just got word mom is getting married..... AGAIN (6th)o_O so the family (mostly hillbillies) will gather in a few weeks and I will slave in kitchen. I need menu ideas. below is the plan so far for 20-30 heads

brined / Smoked turkey and a couple chickens
baked taters, on grill
corn on cob, on grill
pasta salad (deli meats, cheeses, italian dressing, veggies)
steamed broccoli
ceasar salad
deviled eggs
veggie plate
melons
chips / onion dip
chips, salsa guacamole
garlic bread
some other bread I make with a baguette, garlic butter, prosciutto and mozzarella cheese.
bulk Costco rolls
for desert: 4 dozen cream puffs and a few lemon meringue pies. Both can be seen in CM's "Whats cooking" thread.

possibly a batch of squash soup depending on how many heads and how much help I get.

Pretty please make suggestions on things to add, subtract or substitute. . The meat is set in stone, flexible to all others. Broccoli is only on the list because Costco sells 3lbs ready to eat crowns in bag. Would really like a better offering.

Everything but the bread, Italian dressing, pasta and cheese will be made from scratch, so your ideas should be inline with this. There are some awesome chefs here so I hope to see some good ideas. Price isnt an issue, but being able to pull all this off with limited help is. Most things on list so far can be made or prepped the day before.

 

[Seamaiden]

I'd love to see some collard greens, and some good black-eyed peas made with ham hocks, and some good rice to go with 'em. In fact, I bet most hillbillies can appreciate some good southern Louisiana cooking, couldn't they? Can you do a whole piglet? A weanling would be a good size, started early in the day, bet you'd have no one refusing it or the leftovers. Some dirty rice.. all I can think about are beans and rice, no matter how they're made. I fucking LOVE cream puffs, good choice!

 

[Cort]

Epic Idea Sea!!

I have a source to get a piglet from, and it should fit on rotisserie well. So much better than smoked birds!

Wish I could smoke it, but smoker is vertical rather than horizontal.

 

[Natural]

Sounds well rounded. IMO..and yes just another opinion..I'm with SM on another meat. It seems most receptions I've been to offer 2-3 main course meats. Personally, I really like prime rib with a cream horseradish. I know you only have 20-30 heads..but red meat helps satisfy hungry people if it's in the budget. I also prefer mashed potato to baked..but the grill seems quick and will be hot-off-the-grill compared to warming mashed. I agree with Sea..beans would compliment the poultry.
I would make half that of cream puffs..less a couple meringue pies and add ice cream and cake..unless that is ordered already...weddings and cake have a long tradition.
hope all goes well..you sound prepared.

 

[mendel]

I'd love to see some collard greens, and some good black-eyed peas made with ham hocks, and some good rice to go with 'em. In fact, I bet most hillbillies can appreciate some good southern Louisiana cooking, couldn't they? Can you do a whole piglet? A weanling would be a good size, started early in the day, bet you'd have no one refusing it or the leftovers. Some dirty rice.. all I can think about are beans and rice, no matter how they're made. I fucking LOVE cream puffs, good choice!

Was exactly my idea after reading 'hillbilly'. We are of that sort as well, the spring greens are beginnig to flow in, having collards fried potatoes and ham steak tonite.

Cook some hog and greens.

You can cook the pig in a hole in the ground, itll kick big asses rest assured. Hillbilly luau baby!

 

[mendel]

You will need about a 80 lb pig to feed 40 folk. I assume you want some to take home w you to make some pit (bbq) pork for sandwiches and such......

 

[Cort]

Id love to do an in ground pig but I dont think I have the time. I am already planning on 2 extra days off from work to shop/cook/prep. First time in ground pig is, i think, more risk than I willing to take for a wedding.

Infact, an in ground pig has been on my culinary bucketlist for some time. I think as soon as I have my own place it will be a part of the self housewarming party

 

[Dad]

Deep fried pickles , BBQ anything with cannabis in it

 

[stanknugzz77]

the family (mostly hillbillies)

Who are you calling Hill Billy? lmfao. Seriously though, this is a really nice thing that you are doing for your family. My old lady makes great "Kale Chips", fresh from the garden. Yum. Just speaking on it, makes me hungry. Good luck to you and karma on your mother's marriage. Positive vibes...

~nugzz

 

[Cort]

Mendel. Do you have any experiance putting a piglet on the rotisserie?

Say I brined it in sage, apple juice, rosemary, ginger, onion and garlic, what kind of time per lb am I looking at ?

 

[Cort]

Sounds well rounded. IMO..and yes just another opinion..I'm with SM on another meat. It seems most receptions I've been to offer 2-3 main course meats. Personally, I really like prime rib with a cream horseradish. I know you only have 20-30 heads..but red meat helps satisfy hungry people if it's in the budget. I also prefer mashed potato to baked..but the grill seems quick and will be hot-off-the-grill compared to warming mashed. I agree with Sea..beans would compliment the poultry.
I would make half that of cream puffs..less a couple meringue pies and add ice cream and cake..unless that is ordered already...weddings and cake have a long tradition.
hope all goes well..you sound prepared.

Wedding cake is not my department, but I really like a prime rib option. My garlic smashed taters are not off the menu by any means, in fact I think its a go on my end. Saves me from firing a second grill.

If I oven roast any beef, the other side of my family requires yorkshire pudding. Mom might not dig that but I for sure will.

 

[Mogrow]

we like bacon and pork chops, no fucking salad.

 

[Cort]

Fuck you, I am watching my girlish figure. Salad is a must.

Besides, I got 3 weeks to drop enough lbs so I look all Jersey Shore so I can hook up with one of my cousins.

 

[Natural]

Wedding cake is not my department, but I really like a prime rib option. My garlic smashed taters are not off the menu by any means, in fact I think its a go on my end. Saves me from firing a second grill.

If I oven roast any beef, the other side of my family requires yorkshire pudding. Mom might not dig that but I for sure will.

last reception I was at they had the bird and the prime rib..it was off the hook..I think they had sliced fried taters and green bean with that..but the Prime Rib is a stand-out memory. Yorkshire pudding sounds easy enough..I bet the prosciutto evaporates the min you put it out. A large cake or individual minicakes can be whipped up at a bakery...but find decent small bakery to do it..you don't want the expensive "wedding cater" bakery to do it. Maybe a volunteer from someone in the fam. I just don't know if everyone would be happy with lemon meringue...I like it..but some people seem not to like a heavy lemon flavor.

 

[Cort]

last reception I was at they had the bird and the prime rib..it was off the hook..I think they had sliced fried taters and green bean with that..but the Prime Rib is a stand-out memory. Yorkshire pudding sounds easy enough..I bet the prosciutto evaporates the min you put it out. A large cake or individual minicakes can be whipped up at a bakery...but find decent small bakery to do it..you don't want the expensive "wedding cater" bakery to do it. Maybe a volunteer from someone in the fam. I just don't know if everyone would be happy with lemon meringue...I like it..but some people seem not to like a heavy lemon flavor.

York pudding done right is an art in the best of timess. Easy and Hard at sane time :confused:​

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Yes, the prosciutto bread goes very fast, From past catering event I can tell ya as fast as it comes out.​

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[mendel]

Mendel. Do you have any experiance putting a piglet on the rotisserie?

Say I brined it in sage, apple juice, rosemary, ginger, onion and garlic, what kind of time per lb am I looking at ?

I have no idea, never rotisseried a pig in my life. Id brine how you want and let a meat thermometer tell the tail.

We have ground cooked little 15-20 lb pigs here for small family dinners here and they are something special. We soak them overnite in apple cider then stuff them with apple halves, sew em shut and ground cook in a shallow pit. I sometimes rub them with brown sugar and honey when we pull em out.

regards, mendel

 

[Cort]

To my chagrin, mom nixed a baby pig real fast.

looking at mid/upscale foods, buffet style. rented chafing dishes and all.

The woman knows how to crush my spirit.

 

[outwest]

Have you catered all 6 weddings?

outwest

 

[Cort]

Thinking of telling her 1 of two things

Shut up and let me handle this

or

Hire a caterer so they can do everything the way you want,

 

[GanjaAL]

Damn Cort I am hungry now brother...LOL!