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Anonymous wrote:Low country boil: Potatoes, shell-on shrimp (buy USA wild caught, frozen is fine), kielbasa, and corn on the cob cooked in a stockpot with either Old Bay or Zataran's seasoning and bay leaves. Serve with crusty bread and cold beer or white wine. So good.

People so seem to like this. I must be the only one who thinks it's gross.

[b]I don't like it either. I'd be upset if I showed up to dinner and had boiled sausages and shrimp w/bland potatoes.[/b]

If serving pasta, I think any good light salad-y sides that were recommended above would be good accompaniments. I like the goat cheese endive dish especially. [/quote]

They're totally different dishes, and totally different parties.  For the Italian-style garden party OP has in mind, pastas and antipasti are the way to go.  
Low country boil is a wonderful thing, but a much more casual beach thing -- kind of like cracking crabs.  (And the potatoes aren't bland.  You spice them up -- either with hot sausage as I suggested, or Old Bay, or both.   And then serve hot sauce on the side for people who like that kind of thing.)

BTW I'm the goat cheese/endive poster, and I think that would totally fit at OP's party.  But I'm also the hot-sausage-in-shrimp-boil poster, and I love that on a different kind of day (not for OP's party).  
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