Cook Talk

New Year's Eve community party
Krista
12/12/07
Hi Ellen,

Would you please look over our menu for NYE? This will be served to the homeless so I would like to have larger servings then average.

200 people
4 hour party

40 12" pizzas (different toppings)
50lbs cut veggies with 12 cups dip
25L pasta salad
Fruit platter (8 cantaloupes, 5 honeydew, 3 watermelons, 10lbs grapes, another 10lbs of whatever is on sale fruit, 7L of yogurt)
20lbs deli meats
250 rolls
800 to 1000 cookies/bars/squares
20lbs tortilla chips w/ salsa
15lbs potato chips w/dip
600 bite sized appetizers (meatballs, spinach pockets, etc; the frozen kind)
400 sandwiches (egg, tuna, ham)

A small platter on every table (6-8 people) of pickles, olives, and pickled onions.

Punch, pop, coffee, tea (we're used to serving 1700 cups a day so we have the beverages in hand at least!)

Is that enough food or should we add more?

Thanks

Krista

Krista
12/12/07
I should add that price is no object because we recieved a HUGE grant from a local sports team!!! Mostly, it is ensuring that it's food that our volunteers (10-15 + 5 staff) can warm up easily during the night and that 5 of us can organize in 8 hours before hand.
ellen
12/12/07
Hi,

What a good project. Since there will be set tables, I might not make sandwiches ahead, but instead put bowls of the fillings and baskets of bread with condiments on each table.
I would cut the pizzas in squares, as you have seen some commercial ones done, for easy eating and because 4o only allows about 1 slice per person if sliced in 6ths.

I would probably double the deli meats and definitely add about 25 -30 pounds of sliced cheeses.

Make sure you have one of each type per person for the appetizers and the desserts.

Fruit, pasta, veggies look good.

Since everything is closed new years day, you might consider a pre-made take-away bag of a lunch worth of food for the next day- can of fruit, cookies, packaged cheese, maybe jerky, crackers, etc.

Krista
12/12/07
Thanks Ellen. we are having a pizza company do the pizza for us so I'll ask them for squares. Good idea!
Krista
01/22/08
hi Ellen,

Just want to let you know that the party was great!

Thanks for all of your help.

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