Comfort food

Lasairiona

If you're serving this, whatever it may be, are you keeping it simple and familiar that your guests will enjoy or are you jazzing it up so that it's "fancy" for "appearance's sake" instead of something guests are familiar with and will actually eat?

ExpatPumpkin

We had "normal food" for our reception (menu in bio)...  We didn't serve anything that we and our guests hadn't eaten many times before.  And it was delicious, so everyone did "actually eat it"

Does jazzed up mean that it's well-presented?  I'm not sure what your question is...

CaptiolBride

We are having food that is very recognizable to the average person... however, it will be presented nicely.  Nothing that looks too "fancy" where people will ask their neighbor.... "what is this?"

Lasairiona

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_reception-ideas_comfort-food?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:5Discussion:e8cecb44-8538-42d1-99c0-7ac8b658465dPost:d24895b3-5231-4305-b9bc-b42ee6ec06db">Re: Comfort food</a>:
[QUOTE]) Does jazzed up mean that it's well-presented?  I'm not sure what your question is...
Posted by ExpatPumpkin[/QUOTE]
I meant adding ingredients you wouldn't normally put in just to make it look fancier than normal. For example, many people tend to think that anything wedding-related has to be extremely fancy outside of what they normally do, in terms of impressing other people. They often will do that with their food too, and many catering menus are evidence of that as well. As an example, if you wanted to serve mac and cheese at your reception since you and your guests like it, but instead of a basic recipe that you and your guests like, you go for exotic add-ins that you wouldn't eat with it under any other circumstance, but it comes across as perfectly normal since it's for a wedding. That type of thing can be and frequently is applied to any food that is served.

ExpatPumpkin

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_reception-ideas_comfort-food?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:5Discussion:e8cecb44-8538-42d1-99c0-7ac8b658465dPost:f78388a1-c4fb-4c58-a426-59d481b0061c">Re: Comfort food</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Comfort food : I meant adding ingredients you wouldn't normally put in just to make it look fancier than normal. For example, many people tend to think that anything wedding-related has to be extremely fancy outside of what they normally do, in terms of impressing other people. They often will do that with their food too, and many catering menus are evidence of that as well. As an example, if you wanted to serve mac and cheese at your reception since you and your guests like it, but instead of a basic recipe that you and your guests like, you go for exotic add-ins that you wouldn't eat with it under any other circumstance, but it comes across as perfectly normal since it's for a wedding. That type of thing can be and frequently is applied to any food that is served.
Posted by Lasairiona[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>I understand what you're saying.  But don't nice restaurants do that too?  One of my favorite restaurants in Dallas - Hibiscus - has an amazing mac and cheese with premium cheeses, spices, and gratin bread crumbs.  It's delicious!  </div><div>
</div><div>If I were to serve mac and cheese at my wedding, I'd certainly choose a Hibiscus-type recipe and not Kraft's...  It IS one of the nicest dinners you'll ever serve, after all :)

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TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Yeah I agre with Expat. Lobster mac and cheese or mac and cheese with gruyere and marscapone aren't really uncommon, especially at restaurtants.

We're doing mini vegetable and 3 cheese pizzas as one of our passed apps.