Impress your guests with the best dinner party menu!

Dinner parties are a great way to see all of your loved ones in one place, catch up, and entertain all in one evening. At Marshall Pines Memory Care & Transitional Assisted Living in Evans, GA, we always encourage our residents’ loved ones to come and visit or to bring their loved one home for an evening to enjoy a dinner accompanied by family and fun. Any good dinner party has a great balance of games, music, ambiance, and of course delicious food. No matter where you’re hosting, the food must stand out–it is a dinner party after all! Keep reading for 5 menu ideas that are bound to impress your guests.

Antipasto Bites

As everyone arrives, it’s essential that you have a few appetizers out and ready for your guests to snack on before everyone sits down to eat. Antipasto Bites are the perfect little dish to hold your guests over as you continue to prepare dinner and as they stay entertained with games and great conversation. The best part of these is they’re super customizable! Follow the recipe or incorporate some of your own favorite flavors into it. The possibilities are endless!

Stuffed Mushrooms

An important aspect of hosting a dinner party is to remember if your guests have different dietary restrictions. Incorporating a meat-free option is always appreciated by those who follow a vegetarian or vegan diet. This meat-free option is also in alignment with the MIND Diet that we follow for our community at Marshall Pines, so your loved one won’t be straying too far away from the balanced diet they have grown accustomed to! These easy stuffed mushrooms can make a great addition to your appetizers, or you can serve them as a side dish.

Couscous Pomegranate Salad

This couscous pomegranate salad will certainly impress your guests with its light and elevated flavor. It’s important to have a good balance of hearty and healthy options when developing your dinner party menu. This dish is a great way to incorporate something light and a little on the sweet side. With its variety of healthy grains, vegetables, and fruits it is another dish that follows the MIND Diet guidelines. And if you’re curious you can always read more about the MIND Diet we adhere to at our community.

Lemon Asparagus Pasta

Now we’re getting to the main dishes! Incorporating a whole wheat pasta dish is a great way to incorporate some grains while also keeping our vegetarian and vegan friends in mind. Most main dishes include meat of some sort, but this Lemon Asparagus pasta is a great blend of grains and vegetables and will pair up nicely with or without the final dish we’re covering!

Baked Chicken Thighs

With just a total prep time of 15 minutes, this baked chicken recipe is going to be the easiest main dish you’ll ever throw together! When hosting a dinner party, you don’t want to make things harder on yourself by having a time-consuming and difficult menu to make and put together, which is why we chose this recipe as the main dish. It’s simple, and most importantly, you can make a lot of servings at once. Who wants to be stuck cooking in the kitchen the whole evening instead of enjoying their company?

Dinner parties don’t have to be something to completely stress over. At the end of the day, they’re the perfect opportunity to gather your loved ones and bond over the love of good food. We can’t wait to hear about your dinner party plans here at Marshall Pines!

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