Our Cooking Club Needs Food Themes For This Year. Any Ideas?

Toni B on Sat, 13th Feb 2010 9:44 am 



The ethnic themes are always fun, try greek, italian (there is more to italian cooking than pasta and red sauce), appetizers, wine and cheese tasting, favorite comfort food, favorite foods as a kid. A cookie or dessert party. Another idea is “What would I take to a picnic, a tropical theme, a pig or lamb roast. Your favorite wedding food theme. A night at the movies serving your favorite stars food. Good luck and sounds like fun.

Suz on Sat, 13th Feb 2010 3:44 pm 



How about themes based on movies or TV shows? (Southern food–Gone with the Wind, for example)
You could have nights dedicated to a certain year or decade (a 70′s fondue party would be fun).

. on Sat, 13th Feb 2010 7:38 pm 



How fun!
This past summer I would make dinner for my family once a week, and each week I had a different theme with a menu to along. It was so much fun and I am now kinda the expert on themes!
Here’s what I would recommend:
Middle Eastern
Greek
Italian
Thai
Vegetarian
5 ingredient dishes
have fun and good luck with your recipes (don’t forget epicurious.com!)

MommyToo on Sat, 13th Feb 2010 10:51 pm 



How about decade recipes. ie: the 1950′s or 1960′s

Klassy_K on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 12:21 am 



Cajun would be a must second only to East Indian, maybe a Korean BBQ, Tapas is fun. I really love Thai and Afgani food is to kill for. A luah is really fun and easy. Persian is very good. These are all a little different from the run of the mill stuff. I am a caterer and have done these sort of parties often. Also own a restaurant and open one night a month for a theme dinner. Such fun for everyone, we live in a town with few ethnic restaurants so everyone shows up for something different.

istitch2 on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 2:34 am 



I was going to answer this question, but Toni B had such wonderful ideas that I am not even going to try to top them.
Any and all of those sound delightful.
Yes, I am going to give one thought … what about a comfort foods night.

? on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 9:15 am 



Go for Moroccan recipes. That would be exotic and tasty.

chelleed on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 11:58 am 



entertaining
potluck
hors d’oeuvres
deconstructed salads
desserts using liqueurs
French
fondue
seasonal

Barberry on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 2:58 pm 



Polish, Hawaiian, French, Oktoberfest

Ali on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 9:44 pm 



Foods that are red. (or green, blue, orange, etc.)
Foods that start with A, B, C… etc.
Comfort foods.
“Exotic” foods
1-pot dishes
Mnemonic recipes (like pound cake: pound of butter, pound of eggs, pound of sugar, pound of flour… or cupcakes: cup of sugar, cup of flour, cup of butter…)
That should be enough to get your imagination rolling. Good luck!

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