Anonymous wrote:Italian cold cut platter, provolone and swiss cheese, really good bread, olives, peppers, lettuce, tomato, sandwich toppings, fruit salad, and chips or cold salads. My grandma's signature lunch for guests and was always sooo good.

We grew up with this and eagerly called it ‘the spread’. No one went hungry.

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Anonymous wrote:For lunch my go to is fruit salad and croissant sandwiches. All different meats and cheeses as well as vegetarian spreads. Roasted vegetables and something sweet like a scoop of sherbet, ice cream or whipped cream on fruit.

For dinner I usually do a family traditional Gullah meal and make sure there are plain options like white rice and pasta noodles if a guest doesn't like flavored rice or macaroni and cheese.

love the crossaint sandwich and fruit salad idea. you could even provide chicken salad for the crossaints … it’s something I imagine Ina Garten serving ca. 1986.

What is a crossiant sandwich??

What could it possibly be but a croissant cut in half with stuff inside. Such as ham and cheese or chicken salad?

I mean who knows, yall love some weird depression era food around here. It could have been a croissant stuffed with jello mold or stewed onions.

Croissants aren't a depression-era food.

watch the SNL on Penne ala Vodka

Why do we end up back at chicken salad? My go to company dinner is shawarma spiced broiled salmon over a warm salad of roasted corn, grape tomatoes, chopped cilantro, and a lemon vinaigrette. First serve drinks with a bowl of nuts, a bowl of olives, and maybe some marinated goat cheese (just chopped into pieces then scattered with chopped sage, fresh chopped garlic, a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper) with nice crackers. For dessert, some sliced strawberries soaked in a bit of Chianti, sugar, and a bit of lemon juice, over a slice of Angel food cake.

Italian cold cut platter, provolone and swiss cheese, really good bread, olives, peppers, lettuce, tomato, sandwich toppings, fruit salad, and chips or cold salads. My grandma's signature lunch for guests and was always sooo good.

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Anonymous wrote:For lunch my go to is fruit salad and croissant sandwiches. All different meats and cheeses as well as vegetarian spreads. Roasted vegetables and something sweet like a scoop of sherbet, ice cream or whipped cream on fruit.

For dinner I usually do a family traditional Gullah meal and make sure there are plain options like white rice and pasta noodles if a guest doesn't like flavored rice or macaroni and cheese.

love the crossaint sandwich and fruit salad idea. you could even provide chicken salad for the crossaints … it’s something I imagine Ina Garten serving ca. 1986.

What is a crossiant sandwich??

What could it possibly be but a croissant cut in half with stuff inside. Such as ham and cheese or chicken salad?

I mean who knows, yall love some weird depression era food around here. It could have been a croissant stuffed with jello mold or stewed onions.

My go to is chicken piccata, lemon green beans and roasted potatoes

I’m Arab so it’s always a variation of Arabic food- a lot of vegetarian and a chicken/meat option. Appetizers are often various spreads - hummus, babaghanoush, muhammara, labne, pita, olives, pickled veggies, spinach and cheese pies and maybe falafel. Dinner would be grapeleaves, an eggplant dish, or maybe a chicken shawarma or shish taok. Salads would be tabbouleh and fattoush. Dessert would be mint tea and Turkish coffee with knafeh and baklava and cookies.

Anonymous wrote:For lunch my go to is fruit salad and croissant sandwiches. All different meats and cheeses as well as vegetarian spreads. Roasted vegetables and something sweet like a scoop of sherbet, ice cream or whipped cream on fruit.

For dinner I usually do a family traditional Gullah meal and make sure there are plain options like white rice and pasta noodles if a guest doesn't like flavored rice or macaroni and cheese.

I'm picky af and vegetarian and I love this!

What kind of vegetarian spreads?

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Anonymous wrote:For lunch my go to is fruit salad and croissant sandwiches. All different meats and cheeses as well as vegetarian spreads. Roasted vegetables and something sweet like a scoop of sherbet, ice cream or whipped cream on fruit.

For dinner I usually do a family traditional Gullah meal and make sure there are plain options like white rice and pasta noodles if a guest doesn't like flavored rice or macaroni and cheese.

love the crossaint sandwich and fruit salad idea. you could even provide chicken salad for the crossaints … it’s something I imagine Ina Garten serving ca. 1986.

What is a croissant sandwich??

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Anonymous wrote:For lunch my go to is fruit salad and croissant sandwiches. All different meats and cheeses as well as vegetarian spreads. Roasted vegetables and something sweet like a scoop of sherbet, ice cream or whipped cream on fruit.

For dinner I usually do a family traditional Gullah meal and make sure there are plain options like white rice and pasta noodles if a guest doesn't like flavored rice or macaroni and cheese.

love the crossaint sandwich and fruit salad idea. you could even provide chicken salad for the crossaints … it’s something I imagine Ina Garten serving ca. 1986.

What is a crossiant sandwich??

What could it possibly be but a croissant cut in half with stuff inside. Such as ham and cheese or chicken salad?

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Anonymous wrote:For lunch my go to is fruit salad and croissant sandwiches. All different meats and cheeses as well as vegetarian spreads. Roasted vegetables and something sweet like a scoop of sherbet, ice cream or whipped cream on fruit.

For dinner I usually do a family traditional Gullah meal and make sure there are plain options like white rice and pasta noodles if a guest doesn't like flavored rice or macaroni and cheese.

love the crossaint sandwich and fruit salad idea. you could even provide chicken salad for the crossaints … it’s something I imagine Ina Garten serving ca. 1986.

What is a crossiant sandwich??

Roast chicken or if it’s summer I grill a chicken and shrimp on skewers.

I had some friends over with kids the same age as mine (3-6). The dad looked at my chicken skewers and said his kids wouldn’t eat that. I said- oh I made some just with chicken (not touching onion or any vegetable). He said his kids don’t eat chicken, just chicken nuggets. I really couldn’t believe it but we ran to the grocery store for some hot dogs for the kids. I really was trying for a kid friendly food. Frankly if your kids are that picky, you need to travel with a lunchbox of food. I had tons of sides as well as shrimp skewers.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok I'll play. I'm a vegetarian and the cook of the family, but DH cooks meat. Most recent gathering was for pretty picky eaters (nothing spicy or strong flavors).

-Grilled sliced steak
-Roasted farm stand tomato, eggplant, garlic, mixed with white beans with homemade pesto on the side
-quinoa with caramelized onions
-home made focaccia, some plain, some with roasted onions

And for the record, I'm also the OP of the chicken salad thread, which is bringing me endless joy today.

What were you planning to serve with the chicken salad?

I never finalized a menu for it because I'm not making it, but when I do a simple meal like that it's usually some kind of hearty chopped salad, and a bean or a veggie patty (like a zucchini fritter, falafel style patty, or mini black bean burgers with a sauce that goes with it like a tzatziki or chipotle mayo - since I'm veg I try to work in beans into the salad or fritter). Whatever bakery bread looks good. Homemade cookies or fruit cobbler. Fresh iced tea or lemonade.

NP. Soooo your husband asked you to make chicken salad but you’re a vegetarian? Burying the lede there.

What will you be serving the colleague guest?

Bean patties. OP is obviously trolling.

Falafel or black bean burgers are offensive, as a side dish to a meat main, when the host is veg?

Sorry, but these sound amazingly delicious- vegetable/bean fritter? Yes please! With fresh tzakiki or other sauce? Yes, yes. I would eat like this all the time but it's so much work. Anyone remember the original veggie burgers? They were bean-based and seriously amazing.

Anonymous wrote:For lunch my go to is fruit salad and croissant sandwiches. All different meats and cheeses as well as vegetarian spreads. Roasted vegetables and something sweet like a scoop of sherbet, ice cream or whipped cream on fruit.

For dinner I usually do a family traditional Gullah meal and make sure there are plain options like white rice and pasta noodles if a guest doesn't like flavored rice or macaroni and cheese.

love the crossaint sandwich and fruit salad idea. you could even provide chicken salad for the crossaints … it’s something I imagine Ina Garten serving ca. 1986.