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Star Trek-Themed Birthday Party Food

General Preparation

  • All dishes & beverages are best served in glass punch bowls or pitchers.
  • Serving sizes: 12 Bridge Officers.
  • Make name tags for dishes out of construction paper for those who are less familiar with interstellar cuisine.

Appetizer

  • Star Trek insignias dipped in the blood of the enemy (secret Klingon delicacy) = Cheese-covered Nachos and Salsa. ($10)

Drink

  • Romulan Ale = 7up + blue food coloring. ($4)
  • (Alt.) Klingon Blood Wine = Cranberry-pomegranate juice + lemonade and orange frozen concentrate + sparkling lemon-lime water. (Or anything red, like Cherry Cool-aid with sugar.) ($10)

Salad

  • Moba Fruit Salad (Bajoran) = Strawberries, raspberries and julienned fresh basil. ($10)

Side

  • Neelix's 7-Galaxy Pasta (from ??) = Pasta + Tomatoes + Veggie Broth + Olive Oil + Seasoning (recipe). ($5)
  • (Alt. Side) Ardanian spuds (Vegetable that grows in the clouds of Stratos) = Red garlic mashed potatoes (recipe). ($5)
  • (Alt. Side) Ferengi Tube Grubs = Whole wheat orzo pasta in a cheese sauce (recipe). ($5)
  • (Alt. Side) Brown Gagh (Klingon) = Whole wheat linguine noodles in a peanut butter sauce (recipe). ($5)

Main Course

  • Klingon Warrior Food = Beef Roast Recipe + Hard rolls (preferably) ($30) 
  • (Alt. Vegetarian Main) Vulcan Plomeek Soup = "Plomeek Soup, a very popular dish amongst the Vulcans, is essentially a broth harvested from the Plomeek plant with vegetables in it. It isn't bad, but despite its bright orange color, its not much more flavor than any typical vegetable stock from Earth. After a few months of eating this bland broth for breakfast every morning, myself and some of my crew decided that something must be done. We took some of the known edible vegetables of Vulcan and made a more flavorful and robust soup using the plomeek broth. We humans found it so delicious we decided to present it to the Vulcans, who found it too spicy and rich. However, we felt that the people of Earth should try the soup, and so our chef has transcribed a recipe using similar Earth flavors." ($10)

Dessert

  • Plak Tow medication (for Blood Fever during Pon Farr) = HawaiianMacadamia Chocolates (from Costco). ($10)
  • Red Gagh (Klingon) = Twizzler Pull-and-Peels (pulled apart) and gummy worms. ($5)
  • (Alt. dessert) Chocolate Tribbles = Dark chocolate truffles rolled in and decorated with various toppings (cocoa powder, dark chocolate, white chocolate, peanuts, almonds, shaved coconut, fleur de sel (gray sea salt from Brittany, France), powdered sugar and graham crackers). If I had the time, I'd use this recipe. ($15)

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