suggestions on appetizers and a dessert for a homemade soup, salad & breadstick meal???

some pound cake would be good. You can mix some confectioners sugar with some lemon juice and drizzle it on the cake. If you are serving some wine before hand some cheese and crackers would be simple enough.

Overall, I agree with those saying this isn't quite right, but it may not need much tweaking. The truth is, if your wedding is in the evening, you have to feed your guests either dinner, or a hearty enough set of options that it substitutes for that. If you can't do this, then it's not an issue of spending too much money. It's an issue of throwing a party you can't afford (meaning you have too many guests). The thing I don't get is that a lot of meals would be cheaper than all this stuff you're listing. Pasta and chicken are both inexpensive, and all you'd need is a salad and then rice and veggies with the chicken and garlic bread and veggie with the pasta. The dessert is fine either way. If your wedding is daytime, then this is actually a very nice menu.

this would be the combinations if it were me:

a simple green salad

vegetable soup

cornbread sticks

peach, apple or blueberry cobbler

or

a ceasar type salad

chicken noodle or a cream type soup (potato or a seafood bisque)

bread sticks or yeast roll

applepie, cherry pie, and ice cream

or

nice leafy green salad( romain lettuce, red cabbage, shreded carrots..ect

taco soup or mexican soup

jalapeno bread or jalapeno cornbread

flan, or chocolate mouse..

just a few thoughts

happy eats

I was thinking how I love boiled dinner

HAM BALLS

BALLS:

1 ham loaf

1 c. cracker crumbs

1/2 c. milk

1/8 tsp. pepper

2 eggs

SAUCE:

1 1/2 c. brown sugar

1 tsp. dry mustard

1/2 c. vinegar

1/2 c. water

Mix ham ball ingredients together and form into 1 inch balls. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 1 hour. Mix sauce ingredients together and pour over baked balls and heat in oven until bubbly. I put ham balls in crock pot after baking and pour sauce over and heat.

Me I would serve cole slaw, it can cool your mouth down its crisp and not to much dressing to over power the creamy base. Also a version of cabbage.

I add cheese to everything i love it on my bread sticks

Use leftover hot dog buns. Split each bun lengthwise, then slice each half lengthwise again. Place sticks on no-stick cookie sheet. Drizzle with butter. Sprinkle half the bread sticks with garlic and half with cinnamon and sugar. Place in 250 degree oven for about 3 hours.

Garlic sticks are great served with pasta or sliced into croutons for soup.

then you have a snack for later or dessert.with the cinnamon or if your like us it is al dinner bread.

I thought a dessert is not anything w/o chocolate, my bf said how about one of those grahm crust things you make with jello and coolwhip(I do thid last minute so he thinks i did something for the day LOL) so I am going to send this

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE MINT DESSERT

1 c. flour

1 c. sugar

4 eggs

1/2 c. butter, soft

1 (16 oz.) can Hershey's syrup

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 13x9 pan. Beat flour, sugar, butter, eggs and syrup until smooth. Pour into pan. Bake 25-30 minutes until top springs back. (Top may still appear wet.) Cool completely.

Mix 2 cups confectioners sugar, 1/2 cup butter (softened), 1 tablespoon water, 1 teaspoon mint extract and 3 drops green food color. Beat and then spread over cake; chill.

Melt 6 tablespoons butter and 1 cup chocolate chips in microwave. Stir until smooth and pour over dessert. Cover; chill. Makes 12+.

Hmmm.. for me it would depend on what kind of soup was cooked. What kind of soup are you going to cook?