Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

Throwing a Pirate Party for DH's 30th.

I need food/drink ideas that go with the theme.

So far I have

- Ribs
- Mac & Cheese
- Buffalo Wings
- NJ Corn (his mom is bringing)


- Rum Punch
- Pina Coladas/Margaritas
- Corona
- Wine
- Captain Morgans

Re: Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

spinach.... like popeye!!!

i think you got it all covered sounds fun!!

Re: Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

PIRATE BOOTY!!!!!!

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Posted by kris_gets_hitched

PIRATE BOOTY!!!!!!

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YES!!

Re: Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

What about gold chocolate coins (like something from a treasure chest?) as favors.

Re: Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

http://www.coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com/pirate-birthday-party.html

scroll to bottom they give ideas for food

Re: Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

I think any kind of seafood would work. The first thing that comes to mind is coconut shrimp.

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Posted by kris_gets_hitched

PIRATE BOOTY!!!!!!

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i was gonna say the same

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Posted by kris_gets_hitched

PIRATE BOOTY!!!!!!

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That's exactly what I was gonna say!

Maybe also those chocolate gold coins (as long as you try to prevent them from melting). And put them in with things like ring pops or other things that look like jewels?

Re: Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

The Ship
What is a pirate without a ship? There are many food items that can be made to resemble a ship. For the ideas below use a toothpick or a straw for the mast of the ship. Make your sails by cutting triangles out of construction paper. Attach the sail by cutting two small holes in it to thread your mast through. Don’t forget the pirate flag. Use stickers or print them out and glue to your sail.

Banana Boat - Peel and cut a banana in half long ways. Add a scoop of sherbet or frozen yogurt between the two halves. Top with fruit, and/or drizzle with chocolate.

Mini Ship Cakes – Make your favorite cake recipe in mini loaf pans. Frost the cakes with chocolate frosting. Place a few mini pirate figures on the cakes. Serve individually with gummy or cracker fish surrounding the boat.

Stuffed Celery – Fill celery sticks with cream cheese or peanut butter. Add raisins for pirates.

Deviled Eggs – Simply add a sail to your egg halves.

Watermelon Boat – Cut the watermelon to resemble a boat. Fill with mixed fruit.

The Sea
And where is the ship to go without the sea ?

Jello Ocean – Use blue jello filled with fruit treasure or with gummy fish.

Underwater Snacks – Spread cream cheese on crackers. Then add fish crackers on the cream cheese, and a little alfalfa sprouts for seaweed.

Fishy Sandwiches – Make tuna salad sandwiches and use a cookie cutter to cut them into a fish shape. Add a raisin for the eye.

Fish Sticks – These could also double as swords.

Grog

Frosty Mugs of Ale

Pina Colada

Crocodile Blood – Freeze cubes of red fruit drink and serve in lemon lime soda.

Fruit Punch – Don't forget the pirates of the Caribbean had plenty of tropical fruit at hand.

Other Treasures
Always on the hunt for treasure, those pirates are.

Sword kabobs – Use plastic sword skewers for fruit or meats and cheese.

Cannon balls – Grapes and melon balls.

Chocolate coins – These can be purchased at most places that sell candy.

Nuggets of gold – Caramel or butterscotch candy or chocolate kisses in gold or silver foil.


Let them eat grilled parrot - Prepare glazed chicken drumsticks and serve inside a pita pocket, as suggested in the recipe, but decorating the pita with a skull. Just add a few drops of brown food coloring to 1 beaten egg or ¼ cup milk, use it to paint a skull and crossbones on one side the place under the grill. Open the bread once warm and fill with shredded iceberg lettuce and sliced tomato and cucumber, top with one of those parrot legs -cooked chicken piece. If your pirates are older, let them eat the bones of their enemies, and decorate with tomato ketchup blood, but young pirates may be squeamish about having people for food.

Glazed Chicken Drumsticks

Description The ketchup, honey and mustard glaze adds a nice flavor and makes the chicken moist. Perfect for both, outdoors and indoors, grilling.
Ingredients

Difficulty
Very Easy
Special Diets
Dairy Free
Serves
48 chicken drumsticks

For the glace

•2 Tbs tomato ketchup
•2 Tbs brown sauce
•1 tsp soy sauce
•1 tsp clear honey
•½ tsp French mustard
Methods/steps
1.Mix all the ingredients for the glaze.
2.Cut the skin of the drumsticks 3-4 times and coat with the glaze.
3.Grill for 15 minutes, turning frequently.
Additional Tips
Serve with ketchup with a salad and rice on the side. Make a perfect light meal by serving only one drumstick per person packed with the salad inside of a pitta pocket.

Feed them dead man’s fingers a.k.a. known as date squares. Follow the recipe but cut into fingers, instead of squares, once the cake has cooled.
Date Squares


Description A healthy variation of a fruit snack bar. Dates are naturally sweet and a good source of fiber.
Ingredients

Difficulty
Very Easy
Special Diets
Meatless•1 Tbs butter
•1 cup chopped dates
•1 Tbs sugar
•1 Tbs self-raising flour
•1 egg
Methods/steps
1.Preheat the oven to 350F.
2.Grease or line a 7-inch tin.
3.In a medium size pan, melt the butter. Remove from the heat.
4.Add sugar, flour, dates and egg. Mix.
5.Place the mixture in the prepared tin, pressing down.
6.Cook in the center rack for 30-35 minutes.
7.Let it cool slightly and cut into squares while still warm.
Additional Tips
No need to make it squares. Cut it into other shapes: triangles, finger style...

Take them to the pirate coconut islands – make cupcakes with the basic sponge mix, but flavored with 2 Tbs of desiccated coconut. Make grass by coloring some more desiccated coconut green and stick it to the top of the cake with some icing. You can even plant a palm tree made with 1 chocolate stick and some green colored marzipan leaves.
Basic Sponge Cake

Description This basic cake is a breeze to prepare with a food processor. If baked in a tin, the result is a cake that can be decorated any way you wish. If baked in a muffin pan or in individual cake paper cups, the outcome is a batch of cupcakes to decorate to suit any theme.
Ingredients

Difficulty
Easy
Special Diets
Meatless
Serves
8•1 cup all purpose flour
•1 cup sugar
•1 cup soft margarine
•4 eggs
Methods/steps
1.Preheat oven to 375°F.
2.Prepare the cake batter.

3.Transfer it to a lined or buttered baking pan.
4.Bake in middle shelf for 40-50 minutes for a cake, 15-30 minutes for cupcakes.
Food Processor
1.Place flour, salt and baking powder into the bowl. Pulse briefly to sift.
2.Add margarine and sugar. Whiz briefly.
3.Add the beaten eggs and process until blended.
Traditional
1.Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
2.Whisk cream and sugar. Beat eggs and add, one by one, together with a tablespoon of flour each time.
3.Fold in remaining flour.
Additional Tips
Flavor by adding a few drops of your favourite essence or flavouring, for example vanilla lemon, orange or almond essence –for special occasions, add a little grated citrus zest.

A pinch of forestberry will give the cake a sweet berry taste. Try adding some spices such as cinnamon –cinnamon and lemon zest are a great match.

For a chocolate sponge cake, add 2 Tbs cocoa powder to the mix. For a coconut cake, add 2 Tbs desiccated coconut.

This cake recipe is very easy to double or to make in any desired quantity.

Margarine makes the cake less perishable, but it can be substituted with the same amount of butter -the cake will keep for less time. It is also possible to use vegetable oil to produce a much more moist cake.

Re: Need Ideas - Food & Drinks, Pirate Themed

When the party guests' stomachs start to growl, it's time for some pirate party food. There are lots of pirate party food ideas you can serve at a pirate theme kids party.

While you don't want to serve what pirates actually ate on the open seas, remember that to be a pirate means not using good table manners and centering the food on a pirate or nautical theme. This means lots of finger food as well as food that makes the party guests think about ships and the ocean.

For the main course, consider serving chicken drumsticks and wings. Little hands can grab these easily and tear right in with pirate gusto. Another entree idea is to make pigs in a blanket, but call them 'pirate fingers.' Chicken nuggets can double as gold pieces and even sandwiches can take on a pirate theme with little plastic swords holding them together. Fish and chips are the perfect nautical fare for party guests as well.

Side dishes allow you to use even more creative pirate party food ideas. Turn creamy pasta alfredo into slimy seaweed with a few drops of green food coloring or serve round cheese puffs and call them cannonballs. Change the traditional 'ants on a log' to 'pirates on a ship' and use celery and apple slices filled with peanut butter. Thread little paper sails onto toothpicks and insert gently into each portion and don't forget the raisin pirates. Of course, cheddar goldfish crackers bring the ocean right to each plate. Cut up refrigerated breadstick dough and form a dozen little X's. Bake and coat with butter and Parmesan cheese and you'll find that every pirate is eager for an 'X marks the spot' at the pirate theme kids party.

Consider drinks in your pirate party food ideas. Everyone knows that pirates drank grog or ale, so use foamy root beer in mugs to satisfy their thirst. You can also make 'Barracuda Blood' drinks by mixing fruit punch and fizzy lemon-lime soda. For simple convenience, purchase juice boxes of apple juice or fruit punch and paste a skull and crossbones cutout on each one.

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