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How can you have a lavish party spread when you are on a tight
budget?
If you know most of the guests are on a diet, are there to
socialize and not there to stuff their faces with food, you
could create a lavish feast for the eyes, with lots of
creativity.
Serve tiny bite size portions that allow your guests to taste
everything at the table.
Serve everything on beautiful plates and bowls. Food looks more
expensive when served in dishes and bowls that look expensive.
Sure, they can use disposable plates and cups so you wouldn't
have too much washing up to do, but the food on the table should
look beautiful.
Spread out the food. Halve the fish balls and sausages so they
look more, yet are in lighter, bite sized portions.
Here are some of my favourite party recipes.
Tuna Crisps
A can of tuna, a lemon, an apple and a box of Ritz biscuits or
salty crackers are needed for this recipe. Remove
all the salt water or oil from the can of tuna. Squeeze
the lemon for the juice. Chop the apple into small
bits. Mix the tuna, apple and a teaspoon of lemon juice
(More or less juice to your taste) to form a paste
Arrange the biscuits or crackers on a pretty dish..
Put half a teaspoon of the tuna paste on each biscuit.
The extra lemon juice can be mixed with other fruit juices
and sodas to form a fruit punch.
Here is another version my friend invented. This is our
preferred recipe.
you need a can of tuna, a box of ritz biscuits or salty
crackers, a can of campbells cream of chicken soup.
Mix that thick condensed soup with the drained tuna to make
a mushy paste Put half a teaspoon to 1 teaspoon of this
paste on each cracker or biscuit.
Pineapple Fried Rice
You don't want your guests to go home hungry right? Fried rice
should fill them up. Slice the sausages
Peel and chop up the garlic. Cut the pineapple
lengthwise into 2 halves.. Scoop up all the fruit
within the pineapple. Cut the fruit into cubes.. Save the juice
of the pineapple to add to your fruit punch. Heat up
the olive oil and fry the garlic. Add the sausages and
most of the pineapple. Save the prettier pineapple cubes for the
cocktail sticks. Add the boiled rice and stir
thoroughly. Add salt to taste. Take the 2
empty halves of the pineapple. Serve half the fried
rice in each half of the pineapple.
Cocktails the toothpick Wash and
slice a cucumber thickly then quarter it. Do not remove the
skin. Japanese cucumbers are best here. You might need 1 or 2 or
even more cucumbers depending on how many guests you are
inviting. Wash some blueberries and strawberries. Cut
some of the strawberries into slices and the rest of the
strawberries into cubes, for variety.
Yellow pineapples, red strawberries, blue blueberries and green
skinned cucumbers provide your cocktail sticks with a pretty
array of colors. Now you need the meats.
Sliced canned sausages, halved fishballs, fried prawns,
sweet meats, ham, cubes of spam, grilled mushrooms or whatever
you fancy would do nicely. Get ready pretty plates
to present your cocktail sticks in. Poke the toothpick
into a berry, a slice of tomato, a pineapple cube or a cucumber
piece. Then poke the toothpick into
a halved fishball, or a slice of sausage
or a folded piece of ham or a slice of spam,
or a grilled mushroom or a fried prawn
or a sweet meat
Get creative. Make interesting things like sail boats with these
sticks.
For a sailboat, the ham could be the sail, half a fishball,
sausage or a slice of strawberry could be the boat. A berry,
pineapple or cucumber in between adds color to that creation.
When you can, invest in a set of beautiful dinnerware. These can
be used over and over again and are a worthwhile investment if
you entertain often. You might want to consider floral
dinnerware for the feminine touch or cryst
al dinnerware for the very classy elegant touch. Whatever
you serve on expensive looking dinnerware looks even more
lavish.
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