Food Themes & Ideas

Need some ideas for your turn as hostess/host? These might help!


Themed Foods 

  • Color themed-- (all green food items, all red or pink etc.)
  • Comfort food-- (mashed potatoes, macaroni & cheese, different soups...)
  • Letter themed-- (items w/ the same letter: steak tacos, stuffed tomatoes & tirra misou)
  • Movie based menu-- ('Under the Tuscan Sun': crustinis, bread soup, crepes)
  • Pub themed-- (try variations on items like fish & chips or other pub inspired food)
  • Tex-Mex-- (we know this well enough, do we not)?
  • Time period-- (1930's: reuben sandwiches, candle salad, orange chiffon pie)


Cultural Foods (feel free to click)*

  • Asian-- (i.e., kimchi, nori, seaweed wraps)
  • Cuban-- (pulpeta, shrimp casserole, sofrito)
  • Ethiopian-- (doro wat [chicken stew], injera [bread], buticha [chickpea dip])
  • French-- (epoisses cheese & apple tart, butternut squash & sage pasta, almond tart)
  • Greek-- (baklava, fried eggplants, amigdelota [almond cookies])
  • Indian-- (allo baigan, stuffed tomato, vegetable curry)
  • Italian-- (pepperoni & gorgonzola, creamy risotto, lemon basil spaghetti)
  • Mediterranean-- (stuffed grape leaves, lentil soup, honey curls)
  • Mexican-- (paella, green chili soup, cilantro soup)
  • Midwestern-- (shepherd's pie, lemon & yogurt chicken, horseradish mashed potatoes)
  • Southern-- (shrimp gumbo, fried green tomatoes, chicken fried steak)
....and if there's something missing from this list, feel free to add to it...