re: Dinner Party Menu Planning...need some advice. (Updated, proposed Menu on pg 2)

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Is this going to be a formal sit down meal? Casual sit down meal? Will you be serving the courses yourself or will they serve themselves?

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Well, it's going be casual. I had planned for it to be a buffet style and have everything lined up on a table in chafing dishes.

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What foods that you cook does your Mom like? Does she want you to prepare some of her favorites that you make or surprise her?

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She's a creole woman. She loves seafood. She loves dishes that are tomato based. She really doesn't care for steak so that's out. She wants me to make something that surprises her that she never had before. Sunday night, I experimented with a new dish it was called Baked Catfish Creole. The base is made just like your typical shrimp creole, but the difference is that you layer a casserole dish with catfish and spoon the creole based of the catfish and bake it. The dish is served over rice. My wife and I loved it!

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It will be easier to suggest when we know a little more about the meal.

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I agree and I apologize that I wasn't clearer in my initial post.

I'm wondering should I only make one type of appetizer, entree, and dessert or should have make two of each to have a little variety?