Easy Holiday Buffets If you plan to receive this holiday season, consider preparing a dinner buffet. There are many recipes that work party on a buffet table, and if you plan ahead, it can be quite easy on the cook.
A dinner buffet works especially well if you are hosting a large group and have no room for them around the table in the dining room.
The key to a buffet holiday dinner truly successful is to offer a variety of foods for your guests to choose from. This way, if customers do not like a particular food, there is always something for them to try.
If people have plates on their knees, make sure no food to serve the required cut with a knife, because it is simply too difficult. The best solution is to offer a selection of appetizers and both foods that require a fork. Roast beef or steak, for example, can be difficult to eat the meat with the plate on your lap. Instead of choosing something like the meatballs in a sauce with good taste or very thin slices of meat.
When planning your holiday buffet menu, taking into consideration the color of the food you serve. A buffet table, especially during the holidays, it is much more appealing when it includes a variety of colors in the food served. A few colorful salads often do the trick. This is the dessert table that has a mixture of colorful candies and attractive.
During the holiday cookies with red and green cherries and a variety of squares and pies sprinkled with nuts, fruit and caramel really add color to your buffet dinner, even without the decoration of the table.
One of the most important things to consider for your holiday buffet is how to get all the food cooked and ready to be used simultaneously. The point here is to plan as many foods as possible that can be prepared in advance. This way, you can smooth it over several days (or weeks if you can freeze a portion of revenue) instead of having everything ready on day one.
Many recipes like the one below for the meatballs can be made a day or two before, then reheated just before serving. Mix in some recipes for salads that can be prepared in advance and require no cooking at all and life will be much easier on the cook.
Meatballs in Cranberry Sauce
2 pounds ground beef
1 cup cornflake crumbs
1 / 3 cup parsley
2 eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 / 4 c. teaspoon pepper
garlic powder to taste
1 / 3 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons chopped onion
Mix and form small balls and place in roasting pan.
Sauce:
1 can of jellied cranberry sauce (large)
12 oz bottle chili sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tsp tablespoon lemon juice
Mix and heat the sauce ingredients in a saucepan until cranberry sauce is melted. Pour over meatballs raw and bake at 350 degrees F for about 40 minutes.
With a little advance planning and some simple recipes for holidays, your holiday dinner buffet will be a great success.
Posted on May 11, 2010.
