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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.  Thanks for helping me brainstorm!!  Here's the current evolution in my thinking.  It will all be served family style and at the same time.

Two shared sourdough bread bowls--one with spinach-artichoke type dip and one with butternut squash hummus; served with cut up veggies

A new kind of soup (since there's now squash in the hummus)--maybe curried carrot or cauliflower?; Sourdough bread

Cannellini bean fritters--though I may need a better name for these; they are probably 4 inches in diameter and pan fried; they're more substantive than I think people are assuming

Roasted root vegetables

Dipping sauces (again, dill-horseradish and still thinking about the other)

Fennel-orange-arugula salad

Apple tartlets

I still haven't ruled out a lentil "meatloaf" or a savory tart.  I just really want to have sourdough bread and that seems absurd with a tart.  And I make lentil loaf for my kids all the time, so it just doesn't seem special enough for a dinner party.

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It feels very appetizer-like.  But, not my style food.  How about something more hearty with portabella mushroom.

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Can I just ask, for those folks who say that the menu is too appetizer oriented, what's the concern?  That you won't be full at the end of the meal?  That it won't be satisfying?  That you won't get a large enough portion of any single item?  I, like many vegetarians I suspect, have gone through life routinely ordering 2-3 appetizers off a restaurant menu and calling it a meal.  So I'm just interested to understand what you're afraid you'll be missing.

(From my perspective, we've got all the food groups.  We've got crunchy and soft and chewy.  We've got savory, sweet, bitter, oily, herby.  We've got finger foods, spoon foods, and fork foods.  So I'm curious to understand what's missing.  I'm not trying to be antagonistic here.  I just really like to entertain and think about food, so it's interesting to me to understand how others think about food.)[/quote]

NP, I would expect these things at a cocktail & mingling party and it would be fine, I'd definitely be full by the end of it, but it sounds like OP (not sure if you're OP) wants to host a seated meal and this seems too fussy (for lack of a better word) for a seated meal.[/quote]

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