PO, Renda, and others.... Need your help....

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Margies3

I hadn't thought about brisket. I wonder how that would go over with ladies?

On the other hand, how will they feel about fried chicken? that's kind of a finger food, in my opinion. Very hard to eat with (plastic) silverware, even if we get the really good plastic (which we will)

I would go with the fried chicken. (But I really don't like brisket, so I'm biased.) Something else you can do that's really easy is pork tenderloin sliders. Jeff smoked some tenderloins to 145 and sliced them about 1/2" (again, for Barak's party) Put on rolls and serve with sauce. Pastor T mixes half BBQ sauce and mayonnaise for a great slider sauce. The sliders are still a finger food and would go good with the fried chicken.

I've been trying to think of traditional southern dishes to have. Bean soup comes to my mind. But do we need soup AND a salad? And if we do bean soup, we definitely will not do baked beans. One or the other maybe.

We want traditional southern foods (like Kentucky/Tennessee type southern foods). But we also want foods that the ladies will enjoy. So I hesitate with things like bean soup for that reason.

Jeff has a great recipe for baked beans. We've used it for years; he got it from a fellow BBQer who gets his newsletter. They're called Dutch's Wicked Baked Beans. I can send it to you if you want it. I think the recipe is in his book, too....

The other thing I am trying to decide is how to serve these foods. In the past we always had them get up table by table and go into the next room where the food is laid out buffet style. We can do that. But I really don't like doing it that way.

So my other two options are:
1) We can have the men fix their plates for them, then bring them in on serving carts and pass them out. or
2) We can serve the foods "family style". I would get a whole bunch of disposable (but nice) serving platters and bowls. The men could put enough chicken on a platter and enough of the other stuff in the bowls to put at each table. Then the ladies could pass the food family style.

What do you think? What would be your preference?

I really prefer the buffet style.