Lent meals for large group, ideas?

You could do a big seafood pasta. Crawfish and shrimp. Just no sausage

BBQ Shrimp & Grits

you can do a big spaghetti with homeade sauce, and use big chunks of portobello mushrooms as the "meat"

8 gallons of etouffee
20# crawfish (or shrimp for cost savings)
Light roux made with 2lb butter and 1.5lb flour
10# onion or Guidry's mix
5 green onion bunches
parsley, Cajun seasoning, etc.
about 2.5 gallons water
-Serve with 12 pounds of rice


shrimp pasta
20# shrimp
15# pasta (fettucine, rotini, cavatappi, etc.)
- find a fettucine/cream sauce recipe and multiply it by the amount of pasta it calls for


crawfish monica
20# crawfish or shrimp
15# rotini
15# onion or Guidry's
5 green onion bunches
3 parsley bunches
3 pounds butter
30 cups heavy cream
2 jars parmesan cheese
-melt butter, saute veggies, add cream and parmesan, add crawfish
-cook pasta and mix with sauce




Another option that may work if you have ovens is a seafood lasagna.

Shrimp stew and throw in a bunch of eggs.

Shrimp Jambalaya
Roux Peas
Corn Maque Shou


Seafood fettucini
Garlic Bread
Smothered Green Bean

Shrimp Stew
Buttered Corn
Creamed Potatos

we do a 'meatless' spaghetti for San Giuseppe/St Joseph on his feast day at church. Red sauce with no meat and we use boiled eggs instead of mushrooms. I'll admit, it's not the best spaghetti, but I've been doing this with my family every year since I was born so it's a tradition and I look forward to it. There's also plenty of casseroles with cabbage, eggplant, etc. but no meat