With only 5 days to go I am glad to say the menu is FINALLY set.....The main attraction will be the MONSTER MASHED POTATO bar. I just LOVE the idea of serving them in martini glasses too, I love love love a great martini any day, but fill my martini glass with mashies and my favorite toppings... I am in pure bliss....Ingredients on the bar will be ...
Fluffy White Mashies
Butter
Sour Cream
Fresh Chives
Grilled Sliced Flank Steak
Grilled Sliced Garlic Butter Chicken Breast
Bearnaise Sauce
Bacon
Broccoli
Sweet Corn
Mushroom Gravy
Mini Shrimp with Alfredo
Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Shredded Jack Cheese
Crumbled Blu Cheese
Can you say YUMMMMMOooOooooo
The biggest decisions came with the drink menu this year... I wanted something a little creepy, mixed with really good ingredients. I am tired of buying all kinds of new concoctions and getting stuck with leftovers because what looked cook didn't taste so great.. even if it is Halloween. So each of the cocktails below have been tried and tested and enjoyed quite well and I am excited to be sharing them with our guests this year. The only one not shown below is the Brain Hemorrhage we are still going to offer it, but as a "shot" in an actual 60 ML plastic syringe, I will have the syringes filled with the peach schnapps and grenadine already and the guests will suck in the Baileys to create their hemorrhage.... wicked cool!
The Zombie
Ingredients:
1 oz. apricot brandy
1 oz. light rum
1 oz. dark or Jamaican rum
1 oz. lime juice
2 dashes grenadine
Orange juice
1 oz. Bacardi 151 rum
Preparation:
Mix light and dark rum and brandy in a cocktail shaker, add lime juice and grenadine. Shake well and strain into a higball glass filled with cracked ice.
Fill glass with orange juice but leave enough room to float the 151 on top. Garnish with a cherry and orange slice.
Witches Brew
Ingredients:
2 oz. mixed pineapple and cranberry juice
2 oz. 7-Up
1 1/4 oz. shot Malibu Coconut Rum
Preparation:
Mix juices and 7-Up in a highball glass. Pour shot down the side of the glass right before drinking.
You can even mix up a batch of this Halloween Moon Hue inspired drink in a large cauldron and let your guests ladle it out into cups.
Liquid Ghosts
Ingredients:
2 oz. vodka
1 oz. vanilla simple syrup
1 oz. cream
2 oz. soda
Preparation:
Mix vanilla simple syrup, cream, vodka and soda and serve in a martini glass.
Warm Carmel Apple recipe for a Single Serve
Ingredients:
6 oz. apple cider (heated)
Shot of Butterscotch Schnapps
Whipped cream
Pinch cinnamon and nutmeg
1 cinnamon stick
Preparation:
In a glass coffee mug or heat-resistant goblet, combine your heated cider and Schnapps. Top with whipped cream. Sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg. Add cinnamon stick.
Vampire Ritual
1 1/2 to 2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. triple sec
1 1/2 oz. blueberry-beet syrup (recipe below) careful this STAINS
10-15 blueberries
3/4 oz. lemon juice
Crush blueberries and syrup together, then pour mixture and all other ingredients into cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into martini glass. For garnish, use a lemon slice colored with beets.
For syrup: Boil equal parts water and sugar along with several slices of raw beet and small handful of blueberries. Strain out solids and let liquid cool before use.
3 comments:
I love the martini potatoes idea, I was at an event once that did that and I have been dying to do it myself ever since. Let me know how yours goes.
Wow, looking at your menu, I think I rather be at your party than mine :D
Good luck with the event.
Cheers!
*gasp* You have solved my menu problems! I ADORE the potato bar idea, you are genius!
TY kindly for both compliments. I must beg to differ I think I would love to spend quality time in the Davis Graveyard, and genius not I ma'am... just tired of trying to come up with lots of things to cater to everyone's whim, this way... they can cater to themselves! I just got a fabulous recipe to try as an appetizer, I will let you all know how it turns out when I test run it Wed.
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