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[quote=Anonymous]I was going to say merguez sausage, or other lamb sausage.  But your chicken kabob or sausage-stuffed pepper ideas would work too.  Pitas for dipping.  If you're doing the stuffed peppers, they'll have rice in them.  Otherwise you could do a lemon rice pilaf, maybe with some raisins and shallots in it.  Or you could roast some potatoes.  If you can find them, marble potatoes are really great for roasting.  (That would be little potatoes the size of marbles.)  If not, some red new potatoes or fingerling potatoes, cut into small chunks and then roasted with olive oil, salt, and a bit of rosemary.

All of this calls for a good red wine.  I don't know your budget, but try to get better than the $10 plonk.  A Spanish Rioja (the entry-level Rioja is sometimes called Crianza) would work well, and good ones are in the 15-20 range.  Or an Argentinian malbec.  There's also very good budget Chilean wine, but ask at the shop--some is great, some not so.  Montes is a good and affordable Chilean label.  (An Australian Shiraz would also work [u]if it's a good one[/u].  Not the entry-level Rosemount, and no purple syrup with kangaroos on the label.)

Outsource the dessert.  Get sweets from a Middle Eastern market.  A nice baklava-type assortment.  Or, if you can find a place that sells cardamom-flavored ice cream or gelato, do that, with crushed pistachios on top.

And Turkish coffee if you're coffee people.

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