Dori's Wedding Reception

Cami and her fiancé Joseph blessed Joseph’s sister and her new husband by doing the food for their wedding reception.  Joseph and his sister chose the menu, and I helped Cami and Joseph figure up the amounts, etc. They had a few glitches along the way---needing to make the punch at the last minute when they weren’t prepared to do so and dropping a glass bowl filled with several pounds of cheese ball (and the bowl shattering, resulting in starting over on the cheese balls), but overall they did an awesome job—and Cami, once again, saw the benefits of all of her early mega-cooking training days!

 The wrap recipe is Joseph’s own recipe—and he has gotten quite famous for it at his other sister’s wedding a few years ago and his brother’s graduation party a couple of years ago. (He has been a bachelor living alone or with his younger siblings for six years, so he’s had lots of cooking experience!) The other recipes were ours—mostly simple concoctions of cream cheese and something else—sure to please most guests with all that creaminess! J

Dori’s Wedding Reception With Recipes—to feed 300

Vegetables and Dip—6 trays of 8-10 lbs of veggies (48-60 lbs total) on each tray; 6 (16 oz) containers of dip

Fruit and Dip—12 trays of 6 lbs of fruit each (approx 72 lbs total) and 8 “containers” of dip (recipe below, divided up)

            Dip—3 lbs marshmallow cream; 3 lbs cream cheese; vanilla

1.     Cream the cream cheese with a beater/mixer.

2.     Fold in and cream the marshmallow cream. Do not overmix.

3.     Pour in vanilla as desired and stir.

Cheese balls and Crackers—4 cheese balls of 4 lbs each; 8 boxes of crackers

Recipe: 6 lbs cream cheese; 12 pkgs dried beef (6 oz packs); 3 bottles Italian dressing (16 oz each)

1.     Cream the cream cheese with a beater/mixer.

2.     Continue creaming while adding dressing.

3.     Fold in dried beef that you have snipped into small pieces.

4.     Mold and chill.

Joseph’s Wraps—ingredients to feed 300:

            15 lbs thinly sliced ham                      15 lbs thinly sliced turkey

            15 lbs sliced cheese (swiss and provolone for this; they like pepper jack too!)

            6 lbs cream cheese                              156 (12 inch) soft, four tortillas

            1 large mustard                                    3 bottles ranch dip (not dressing)

            3-5 lbs baby spinach

Instructions:

1. Place the following ingredients in the order given on ¾ of a tortilla shell:

(1) cream cheese            (2) cheese slices

(3) both meats                (4) spinach

(5) squirt of mustard       (6) thin spread of ranch dip

    2. Start at thick side of wrap and roll up loosely, keeping the meat in place as you roll.

    3. End with the thin edge.

    4. Wrap individual wraps in plastic wrap tightly and refrigerate.

    5. Remove from fridge, cut off ends (and feed to helpers!), and cut in half, then cut those halves in half again.