Food Station Suggestions

Food stations are a fun way to get your guests to mingle. Generally food stations offer a single type of food like seafood or a particular cultural theme like Asian. Choose several to give your guests a variety of tastes and perhaps the chance to try something new!

Fire and Ice Seafood

Iced shrimp with cocktail sauce
Iced Chesapeake oysters and little neck clams
Steamed mussels with lemongrass, coconut milk & chilies
Sautéed garlic shrimp tossed with angel hair pasta
Pan-seared cocktail crab cakes with jalapeno with crushed corn and thyme cream

Asian Noodle Bar

A selection of three hot noodles served from woks in brightly colored Chinese take-out cartons with chopsticks
Teriyaki beef noodles with scallions
Thai chicken satay noodles with peanuts and coriander
Chinese vegetable noodles with eggplant, pepper and onion

Yo! Philadelphia

Miniature Philadelphia cheesesteaks with sautéed onions, mustard and ketchup
Miniature Italian hoagies
Pepperoni calzone
Caesar salad with creamy parmesan dressing
Soft pretzels with yellow mustard

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Entertaining Tip

BY STEVE POSES

The Joy of Garlic

It’s a painful thought: What would cooking be without garlic? Like the oceans without water. The sky without the sun and moon. Garlic is absolutely essential to good eating. In its raw state, it is almost sharp and pungent. Mixed and muddled with salt, it loses its edge. Lightly sautéed, it starts to sweeten, and roasted until soft, garlic is almost sweet. Garlic is common to all of the world’s great cuisines — throughout all of Asia, into Eastern Europe and the Middle East, around the Mediterranean’s northern and southern shores and down into Africa. Garlic is also central to cooking in the New World, especially throughout Latin America and, of course, the United States. Always use fresh garlic, never garlic powder, unless it’s to be sprinkled on a slice of mediocre pizza. Garlic is best chopped shortly before using, but cloves can be bought pre-peeled and stored whole in your refrigerator for up to a week.