Anonymous
Post 08/10/2025 12:18     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:caprese kebabs: cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, basil, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic on plastic toothpicks

fruit skewers: watermelon cubes, berries, grapes, strawberries

melon and prosciutto

hummus with tri-color carrot sticks, snap peas, and cucumbers

a variety of cheeses and crackers (pepperjack, cheddar, brie, bleu, boursin, goat with fruit, etc... and baguette slices, pita chips, pretzel thins, seeded crackers)

olives

trader joe's fig and onion tarts

trader joe's pigs in a blanket with grain mustard

brownies, cookies, lemon bars, cut small (or I'd just order mini cupcakes)

white wine, rose, hard seltzer, water, lemonade



I would love to know what people think makes a suitable dinner out of this.


If has a wide variety of choices, it hits all the food groups, and it can be eaten without cutlery. It's fine for game night at 6pm.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2025 12:13     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:caprese kebabs: cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, basil, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic on plastic toothpicks

fruit skewers: watermelon cubes, berries, grapes, strawberries

melon and prosciutto

hummus with tri-color carrot sticks, snap peas, and cucumbers

a variety of cheeses and crackers (pepperjack, cheddar, brie, bleu, boursin, goat with fruit, etc... and baguette slices, pita chips, pretzel thins, seeded crackers)

olives

trader joe's fig and onion tarts

trader joe's pigs in a blanket with grain mustard

brownies, cookies, lemon bars, cut small (or I'd just order mini cupcakes)

white wine, rose, hard seltzer, water, lemonade



Love this. I'm a picky vegetarian and would eat a lot of these items. I see something like this as ideal. If I'm hungry I can have more and just eat a snack later at night, but if I'm not into it I can just have a few crackers and eat a real dinner at home.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2025 10:45     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s probably just better to level with people and explain that you’re broke and that you will be ordering dinner or potluck. An invitation at 6:00 implies dinner. Assuming no known allergies, I would do three different salads, a quiche, a fruit tray, a cheese tray, nuts, pickles and olives, smoked fish, and a bottle of rose, a bottle of white, and seltzer. If people ask what to bring, say dessert.


To the DCUM fatties it does. To normal people who can read an invitation and judge from there, no it doesn’t.


It’s the people who think dinner can be a bunch of pigs in a blanket who are the fatties.


This made me LOL. Good one!
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2025 09:16     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:caprese kebabs: cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, basil, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic on plastic toothpicks

fruit skewers: watermelon cubes, berries, grapes, strawberries

melon and prosciutto

hummus with tri-color carrot sticks, snap peas, and cucumbers

a variety of cheeses and crackers (pepperjack, cheddar, brie, bleu, boursin, goat with fruit, etc... and baguette slices, pita chips, pretzel thins, seeded crackers)

olives

trader joe's fig and onion tarts

trader joe's pigs in a blanket with grain mustard

brownies, cookies, lemon bars, cut small (or I'd just order mini cupcakes)

white wine, rose, hard seltzer, water, lemonade



I would love to know what people think makes a suitable dinner out of this.


DP. What “suitable dinner” would YOU serve at a 6PM game night?

I’m a PP who suggested a Mediterranean spread (as that’s what I do) but as a guest I’d also be happy with soup/sandwich, pizza, the apps described above, anything really.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2025 09:08     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:caprese kebabs: cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, basil, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic on plastic toothpicks

fruit skewers: watermelon cubes, berries, grapes, strawberries

melon and prosciutto

hummus with tri-color carrot sticks, snap peas, and cucumbers

a variety of cheeses and crackers (pepperjack, cheddar, brie, bleu, boursin, goat with fruit, etc... and baguette slices, pita chips, pretzel thins, seeded crackers)

olives

trader joe's fig and onion tarts

trader joe's pigs in a blanket with grain mustard

brownies, cookies, lemon bars, cut small (or I'd just order mini cupcakes)

white wine, rose, hard seltzer, water, lemonade



I would love to know what people think makes a suitable dinner out of this.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2025 09:02     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:caprese kebabs: cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, basil, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic on plastic toothpicks

fruit skewers: watermelon cubes, berries, grapes, strawberries

melon and prosciutto

hummus with tri-color carrot sticks, snap peas, and cucumbers

a variety of cheeses and crackers (pepperjack, cheddar, brie, bleu, boursin, goat with fruit, etc... and baguette slices, pita chips, pretzel thins, seeded crackers)

olives

trader joe's fig and onion tarts

trader joe's pigs in a blanket with grain mustard

brownies, cookies, lemon bars, cut small (or I'd just order mini cupcakes)

white wine, rose, hard seltzer, water, lemonade



I love melon and prosciutto but never see it served anymore. I may have to eat this soon.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2025 02:46     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s probably just better to level with people and explain that you’re broke and that you will be ordering dinner or potluck. An invitation at 6:00 implies dinner. Assuming no known allergies, I would do three different salads, a quiche, a fruit tray, a cheese tray, nuts, pickles and olives, smoked fish, and a bottle of rose, a bottle of white, and seltzer. If people ask what to bring, say dessert.


And this is why I usually eat at home before going to someone’s house, otherwise I end up starving.

I’d rather have the Lebanese taverna stuff PPs suggested than your nuts and smoked fish, quiche and the three different salads.


And honestly, that's what people with food issues or pickiness SHOULD do. In my group of friends, everyone is veg, several avoid gluten, and I don't cook meat at my house, so for a summer game night, we lean into produce. In Fall or Winter, we would do something different. I liked the soup idea, chili could work, even a baked potato or taco bar for a game night seems on-brand.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 21:30     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
caprese kebabs: cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, basil, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic on plastic toothpicks

fruit skewers: watermelon cubes, berries, grapes, strawberries

melon and prosciutto

hummus with tri-color carrot sticks, snap peas, and cucumbers

a variety of cheeses and crackers (pepperjack, cheddar, brie, bleu, boursin, goat with fruit, etc... and baguette slices, pita chips, pretzel thins, seeded crackers)

olives

trader joe's fig and onion tarts

trader joe's pigs in a blanket with grain mustard

brownies, cookies, lemon bars, cut small (or I'd just order mini cupcakes)

white wine, rose, hard seltzer, water, lemonade

Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 21:20     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:My MIL hosted a recurring game night and book club at her place for many years and she did a lot of soup and sandwich type meals since people don’t always arrive on time. You can put the soup in a slow cooker on warm and order a sandwich tray or wrap tray from a deli/caterer. There was also usually some sort of veggie tray and a cheese and cracker tray or pita and hummus.


What a wonderful and simple idea.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 21:16     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:It’s probably just better to level with people and explain that you’re broke and that you will be ordering dinner or potluck. An invitation at 6:00 implies dinner. Assuming no known allergies, I would do three different salads, a quiche, a fruit tray, a cheese tray, nuts, pickles and olives, smoked fish, and a bottle of rose, a bottle of white, and seltzer. If people ask what to bring, say dessert.


And this is why I usually eat at home before going to someone’s house, otherwise I end up starving.

I’d rather have the Lebanese taverna stuff PPs suggested than your nuts and smoked fish, quiche and the three different salads.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 20:54     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Lebanese taverna.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 19:59     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hosting about 12 women all early 40s for a game night together starting at 6 pm. I don’t want to do a full dinner spread, but want to make sure I have enough food. Help!


Was it your choice to start at 6 or is this a standing event that you’re hosting this month? 6pm means dinner is served. You should have started at even 7 and avoided the confusion.


Who makes these precise rules? To me 6 and 7 are equally reasonable dinner times, but I would not assume dinner is being served unless I'm invited to dinner. And game night implies using my hands to play and therefore not eating a sit down dinner but just having light snacks.


You are making dumb rules. I was invited to a 6 pm game night. We had dinner because it’s 6 pm. You don’t assume dinner with a 6 or 7 pm invite? Are you still in college? 25 years old?


I was replying to someone who said "6pm means dinner is served. You should have started at even 7 and avoided the confusion."

I don't see how 6PM definitely means dinner, and 7 PM avoids that confusion. I think they're about the same in that regard, which it sounds like you do as well.

And in addition, I would judge more by the nature of the event than the time, so I would still not explicitly assume dinner was served at a game night unless the invitation actually said that.


See you are imposing your own rule. Game night doesn’t trump 6 pm, a very common dinner time.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 19:53     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hosting about 12 women all early 40s for a game night together starting at 6 pm. I don’t want to do a full dinner spread, but want to make sure I have enough food. Help!


Was it your choice to start at 6 or is this a standing event that you’re hosting this month? 6pm means dinner is served. You should have started at even 7 and avoided the confusion.


Who makes these precise rules? To me 6 and 7 are equally reasonable dinner times, but I would not assume dinner is being served unless I'm invited to dinner. And game night implies using my hands to play and therefore not eating a sit down dinner but just having light snacks.


You are making dumb rules. I was invited to a 6 pm game night. We had dinner because it’s 6 pm. You don’t assume dinner with a 6 or 7 pm invite? Are you still in college? 25 years old?


I was replying to someone who said "6pm means dinner is served. You should have started at even 7 and avoided the confusion."

I don't see how 6PM definitely means dinner, and 7 PM avoids that confusion. I think they're about the same in that regard, which it sounds like you do as well.

And in addition, I would judge more by the nature of the event than the time, so I would still not explicitly assume dinner was served at a game night unless the invitation actually said that.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 19:11     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hosting about 12 women all early 40s for a game night together starting at 6 pm. I don’t want to do a full dinner spread, but want to make sure I have enough food. Help!


Was it your choice to start at 6 or is this a standing event that you’re hosting this month? 6pm means dinner is served. You should have started at even 7 and avoided the confusion.


Who makes these precise rules? To me 6 and 7 are equally reasonable dinner times, but I would not assume dinner is being served unless I'm invited to dinner. And game night implies using my hands to play and therefore not eating a sit down dinner but just having light snacks.


You are making dumb rules. I was invited to a 6 pm game night. We had dinner because it’s 6 pm. You don’t assume dinner with a 6 or 7 pm invite? Are you still in college? 25 years old?
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2025 18:56     Subject: What would you serve at an all women cocktail party?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:6pm must be dinner.

Pizza or
Catered Meteranian.

I'd do Met.

If you must do heavy apps they need to be heavy. Like Shimp platter, egg rolls, samosas, anything at Trader Joes really in the app section mix it up. Charcuterie alone does not cut it.


What is Meteranian?


What they eat on planet Meteran


LOL