What Would You Serve on Your Inauguration Luncheon?
After reading the topic All About the Inauguration Luncheon, I wondered if the incoming President has any say in what is served in their inauguration luncheon. One would imagine so...?
If you were to be inaugurated, what 3 courses would you serve?
My luncheon would be rather mundane...
1st course: spring mix with decorative blackberries, raspberries, and kiwi slices with kiwi vinaigrette (yeah, I know, it's so 1990s)
2nd course: filet mignon; sauteed wild mushrooms with grilled asparagus; lobster mash
3rd course: ginger creme brulee with Kona coffee
I am not much of a pairing-drinks-with-a-meal kind of person so I wouldn't know what to serve. I'd just drink unsweetened iced black tea. :)
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22 Comments:
I would pull an Andrew Jackson and invite everyone from my neck of the woods and make the luncheon what they liked to eat. The pastry chef would be working his ass off. My people like cake.
Small plates and a nice mix of flavors
Fish Course
Pasta Course
Killer dessert choices
Wines
JerzeeTomato at 1:55PM on 01/19/09
If I were being inaugurated, I'd host my luncheon outdoors as well in a large garden with circulating trays of Pino Grigio (nice and light and pairs with lots).
Mingling course -I'd do some frois gras croustini with some light mustard and micro-greens to be extra-presidential-fancy!
1st course -I'd do a red, white and blue soup with roasted red peppers, potatoes and sour cream, and blue cheese
2nd course -I'd take your suggestion, Cassandra, as my second course too! Friggin-eh!
3rd course - Some star-fruit spangled sugar-free shaved ice with berries
I would finish the entire event with an extra-rich, extra extravigant cheese and fruit tray that would blow EVERYONE away!!!
hungrychristel at 2:50PM on 01/19/09
excluding obama -- for most of our past presidents:
HUMBLE PIE.
pooch at 4:19PM on 01/19/09
Outdoors? In January?
RegrettableFoodie at 4:56PM on 01/19/09
Oh I don't know what the weather is like down there? I just figuered anything would be nicer than the -50 C we've got up here LOL
hungrychristel at 5:02PM on 01/19/09
Well, I'm not sure I'd want to be inaugurated--but if I were designing the Obama menu--the first thing I thought of was the dessert--something like Dorie Greenspan's 'Twofer Pie' because I heard Obama likes pumpkin pie. The melding of pecans and pumpkin would show unity of two unique American forces, just like the nation is striving for unity!
Actually, I think Cassaendra's fruit salad idea for the first course is a good idea--for the first course, I'd serve fruit salad (with Hawaiian pineapple). This would be followed by Chicago thin crust pizzas of various kinds for the 'main' and then some Twofer pie for dessert.
HeartofGlass at 6:25PM on 01/19/09
I would call Alice Waters and let her create!
veggieout at 6:48PM on 01/19/09
Pulled pork with assortment of sauces, barbeque chicken, baked beans, coleslaw (as much as I hate it), grilled veggies, banana pudding, chocolate cake, and hot apple crisp with ice cream.
beth1 at 10:59PM on 01/19/09
@beth1- Double on that for me. I would add a 7-8 mac and cheese to the menu though. I think that I will have to have your menu for Memorial Day. Thanks for the idea.
pjracz10 at 8:39AM on 01/20/09
I would say Humble Pie for everyone (Obama INcluded), spinach soufle for strength, glazed carrots for maximum "vision" and a large serving of American Apple Pie, followed by Scripture Cake for dessert. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Scripture-Cake/Detail.aspx
lambowner at 9:54AM on 01/20/09
I would serve simple, strengthening food to get us through the rest of the tough times. The food would also have to be traditionally "lucky" and delicious.
Inauguration Beans
A big fresh salad
Votemeal Cookies
butterface at 10:59AM on 01/20/09
Fun Indian finger food like samosas and idli along with lots of dips with pita. I think a nice wine punch would be great for the drink.
wanderingfoodie at 12:43PM on 01/20/09
A fleet of Koji taco trucks.
louclakat at 1:27PM on 01/20/09
In some incarnation, there would be tomato sauce.
therealchiffonade at 1:47PM on 01/20/09
For MY inauguration? Good lord, cyanide. For myself. I'd be an AWFUL president, and I'd hate the job.
Best of luck, President Obama - better you than me!
Kiwords at 5:17PM on 01/20/09
And then I misspelled inauguration. SEE HOW BAD I'D BE?
Kiwords at 5:18PM on 01/20/09
I would start with a roasted poblano soup along with a large assortment of fresh baked breads. Next, would be a cheese platter and seasonal fruit. For the entree, a chipotle marmelade pork tenderloin along with Parmesan and pecan sweet potato gratin and grilled haricort verts. For dessert; Coca Cola chocolate cake.
gammypie at 9:37PM on 01/20/09
@gammypie YUM!!!!!!! Yours is the only luncheon I would eat! I want it right now!
blackliquorice at 3:23PM on 01/21/09
I'd have an informal international feast that also featured traditional "American" foods like fried chicken and apple pie. It would be like a mall food court, where you could serve yourself a taco, slice of pizza, pastrami on rye and a few rugelach cookies with your turkish coffee. Or just have salad with a huge array of fixin's and lobster bisque. A melting pot, so to speak.
PerkyMac at 3:45PM on 01/21/09
*Roasted butternut squash soup with bleu cheese crostini
*Something delicious, unique and vegetarian, like roasted vegetable quiche with quinoa crust
*Whole wheat crepes with chocolate sauce
PestoGal at 4:16PM on 01/21/09
beer and pizza. vote for me!
mhurst826 at 8:26PM on 01/21/09
I wouldn't do anything fancy ... I would want it to feel like a potluck, just a great big neighborhood party. Big trays of roasted veggies, enchiladas, lasagna, avocado rolls, crackers and hummus, stuffed peppers and artichokes and mushrooms, pasta salad, lentil salad, vegetable salad, summer rolls, fruit salad. Then for dessert, an ice cream bar, peanut butter bumb cupcakes (the only acceptable cupcake), blueberry buckle and several kinds of pie, root beer floats. Kahlua-spiked coffee for dessert. All animal-product free, of course.
KarynMC at 10:35AM on 01/22/09