Reception food ideas...

Hi think simple. You will hate yourself if you have to do all that cooking and your hair falls on your wedding day. Try to make things that can be made a day or two before. I suggest Cooking.com strongly because they not only have recipies, they have menus too! For just about any style or occassion. While you are there you should set up a registry too. Obviously you like being in the kitchen. lol

Check the cost of a caterer over the cost of the ingresients and supplies. They are usually LESS than if a novice tried to do it themselves. Good luck I am praying for you!

Hey platinum I'm a half do it your self cook.I will be having traditional Thanksgiving food at my wedding.I will be ordering a turkey and a ham from the honey baked ham store but I will prepare all the side dishes myself. Girl please dont try to do it all by yourself.I will be getting the help of my FH sisters when I cook.Find you a couple of people who love to cook and Im sure they will be more than happy to help you prepare.Like Big Mama who knows how to throw down on some greens and mac and cheese!Or Uncle Robert who can hook up a mean bar-b-que rib dinner.Girl get them for what they good for.The key is to find the ones who always bragging about how good they cook.That way you can put them to the test and get what you need all at the same time. When Im outside looking all cute I will have them sistahs in the kitchen heating up food I cooked the night before.As for a menu how about preparing you and FH's favorite meal.

My menu will be Turkey, Honey baked Ham,Dressing/Stuffing, Mac and Cheese,Greens (collard and mustard),Yams,cornbread/dinner rolls,fried chicken,and since FH loves them Sweet potatoe pie will be his grooms "cake".And of course a huge wedding cake!

You could also grill chicken breasts, and have different types of pasta (angel hair, bowtie, penne etc.,) and have 2-3 different sauces. That way guests can mix their own creation. It will fill them up. Plus, pasta is inexpensive and easy to cook. It's just a matter of keeping it warm.

AT MY WEDDING WE HAD A THANKSGIVING DINNER ALSO. WE HAD SALAD FIRST, THEN TURKEY, HAM, AND THE SIDES WAS GREENS, YAMS, MACNCHESSE,red BEANS N RICE, Potato SALAD, stuffen, pig feet, rolls, and our wedding cake for desert. i hope this helps you

Someone please tell me how do you serve PIG FEET?

THE PIG FEET ONLY GOT SERVED TO 1 PERSON MY FATHER, HE BROUGHT THE PIG FEET AND COOKED THEM HIS SELF THERE WAS ONLY 1 BOWL. NOT ALL THE GUEST GOT SERVED PIG FEET

We're having grilled chicken breast (or turkey as the option), seasoned yellow rice, veggies, & pasta salad. Gotta keep it simple (folks are so picky these days)

Thanks Happy but you still ain't tell me how is it prepared???
I am just trying to become acquainted with your cuisines...I just learned about whiting and collard greens..

my bad i thought you meant why would you serve pig feet. every ladies cooks pig feets different, but what i do is put them into some water in a large pot, with all the season salt you like pepper salt all that good stuff bell pepper, and just let them boil for about 1hour to 45 minutes, it depends on how tender you want them to be

[quote="CharlotteModebe"]Someone please tell me how do you serve PIG FEET?
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We call pig feet souse in the lower caribbean. It is slow cooked with parsley, garlic. Very minimal spices and served with potato salad. I used to have it EVERY saturday when I was on St. Thomas. I think it made me 60% fat. [LOL] So I am with your dad on this one, Happily! lol

I think Alivinslove is having Thanksgiving dinner at her reception. YUMMMY!!! Me so hungry.

Charly where are you located because you don't know about any of the soul food dishes dear? Do you know what Chitterlings, pronounced (chitlins) are? Are you from the island? I thought I saw you writing some Potua Spelling?

[quote="virtuousV"]Charly where are you located because you don't know about any of the soul food dishes dear? Do you know what Chitterlings, pronounced (chitlins) are? Are you from the island? I thought I saw you writing some Potua Spelling?
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I am from the Bahamas - not potua, that is Jamaican - my native language is English but we broke it up so bad we call it Bahamianees (its not official just really messed up) in my daily life I dear not speak that way but sometimes people really bring out the negro in you.

What in the world is chitterlings - I don't think I like how that sounds, I'm afraid to find out what it actually is...but tell me anyway.

[quote="Rosetta"]Someone please tell me how do you serve PIG FEET?

We call pig feet souse in the lower caribbean. It is slow cooked with parsley, garlic. Very minimal spices and served with potato salad. I used to have it EVERY saturday when I was on St. Thomas. I think it made me 60% fat. [LOL] So I am with your dad on this one, Happily! lol

I think Alivinslove is having Thanksgiving dinner at her reception. YUMMMY!!! Me so hungry.
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Yes Rosey I know what is pigfeet souse...it is a dish most bahamians eat on Saturday mornings - they go to a souse house and order it - it is served with johnny cake (which is a bread but not a loaf, more of a cake consistency). It is prepared by boiling with whole spice, onions, salt, and potatoes...at the end it is seasoned with lemon juice.

Listen here ya'll this is one of the biggest morning breakfast in the Bahamas along with boil fish, sheep tongue souse, chicken souse, mutton souse. Especially on holidays.

I always like to ask how you prepare your native dishes because we are a melting pot on this site with our own unique lifestyles.

HHHHEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLOOOOOOOO PEOPLE HAVE YA'LL GONE MAD?????WHAT!!!?...INTESTINES....HELP ME JESUS!!!!! - Sweetgirl I see why you are not a big fan of them - GO FIGURE! EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW

Charley you think they sound bad....you should smell them1I hate going to black folks houses on New Years cuz that is deffinatly going to be cooking.....It just smell like poop all in the house...even while cooking them and when you eat them....I CANT STAND THE SMELL.The last party I went to that were cooking chitlins had my clothes smelling like that too...I had to double wash it cuz it stunk so bad!maybe its just me but I cant see why the heck people will eat something that smels so horrible!!!

I don't fool with chitlin's or pig feet. I just can't, but I don't knock anyone that does!

HA! HA! yall crazy, but it true, they stank bad. I never ate them and never will, my mom use to makes them a lot. When we were little we would never come home if she was cooking chitlins. I was just wondering if you heard of them.

This is just too much of a blow in one day - Lord have mercy...I have never had such a vivid visual before...yuck!. Not that I am knocking your cuisines but oh my goodness.

I think you have to have a very strong stomach to eat chitlins,if you can handle it more power to you...i just dont wanna be around when you do. Growing up I would never eat the food that stinks or looks bad.I think its all in my head or something but I cant force myself to eat something that dont look or smell right.Even if I fixed it before and I know how it taste if the look and smell is not appealing it aint going nowhere near my mouth.

my whole family eats chitlins we have them everty othre sunday and on all the major hoildays. i can eat them i just cant bring myself to clean and cook them the smells just turn my belly upside down

Ya'll gatta be kidding me....THAT SHOCKED THE HELL OUT OF ME!...(LOL) but seriously I remember growing up my mommy would cook turtle - YES TURTLE - and that STANK real bad and to make matters worst the meat was like jelatin (YUCK) she could not get me to eat that is it was the only thing on this planet to eat - it was just too much and smell so bad - Lord give me strenght I gat cold bumps just thinking about Chitterlings and Turtle EEWWW.

Charly turtle, now that one takes it!

eww Charley.I can just image you being a bad girl so the punishment was a turtle dinner.I had turtles as a kid and I srill like the now but I cant picture my pets floating around in a pot and them put on my plate as dinner.I think in would have taken a old fashion butt whipping than eat that!

LOL i would have to agree eith you. that would be so nasty, ill take butt wipin for 100 please

[quote="CharlotteModebe"]Ya'll gatta be kidding me....THAT SHOCKED THE HELL OUT OF ME!...(LOL) but seriously I remember growing up my mommy would cook turtle - YES TURTLE - and that STANK real bad and to make matters worst the meat was like jelatin (YUCK) she could not get me to eat that is it was the only thing on this planet to eat - it was just too much and smell so bad - Lord give me strenght I gat cold bumps just thinking about Chitterlings and Turtle EEWWW.
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I had chittlins. --not bad. never smelled them stinking though thank GOD! i HAVE EATEN TURTLE, TURTLE SOUP ANS STEW TURTLE. i SAW THEM CATCH AND CLEAN ONE ONCE WHEN WE WENT SPEARFISHIING! i WILL NEVER EAT IT AGAIN. oH THEY CRY SOMETHING AWFUL AND MOANING. So sad. What's with me and the damn caps lock??? lol

Sorry ladies, but I just can't imagine eating turtle. International cuisine is really interesting. I remember an African friend of mine made some peanut butter chicken, (now mind you she had to twist my arm to get me to taste it), but girl once I did it was on! That is one of the most tastiest dishes I have ever tasted. Go figure.

To hell with the international cuisines---I don't eat some of my own hertiage dishes, if I think it's gross I am not eating it. Nah Rony I do not like peanutbutter but I can see me eating that because I eat chicken all the time....and I hope you mean chicken as in KFC and not spring chicken as in Frog...that is another story ewww