HOW TO THROW A WILD LUAU!
Contents:
Page 1: Preparations
1. the invite
2, costumes?
3. start watering
Page 2: MENU
4. planning the menu
5. to cater or not to cater?
6. potluck!
7. the booze
Page 3: Setting the mood
8. decorating
9. music
Page 4: Flowers
10. fresh flowers
11. aloha
Page 5: LUAU!
12. Pariarts' Luau 2002 photos
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Salads
Chinese chicken salad, a mixed green
salad, jello mold, or fruit salad
served in a scooped out pineapple.
Side Dishes
Rice goes great at a luau. Try
fried rice with some diced
pork, diced green onions,
pineapple chunks & pecans
Grilled eggplant, peppers, and
sweet potatoes are also
big hits.
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Desserts
Desserts are also a MUST. You gotta
have something sweet to wash down
all those fruity drinks! Pineapple
upside down cake, Hawaiian coconut
cake, more fresh fruit, banana
cream pie are some favorite choices.
If you can get your hands on a
macadamia nut pie,
that's REALLY Hawaiian!
Serve with Hawaiian flavored coffees
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PLANNING THE MENU
If you're going to make all the food yourself, then plan
your menu now. If you're a hard-core vegetarian
you'll want to skip this section.
Here's some suggestions:
Appetizers (pupu).
These can be munched easily while balancing a
rather large and decked out umbrella drink in the
other hand. Sweet & Sour meatballs, Satay (grilled
meat on skewers with peanut sauce, mmmmm.),
Yakitori (grilled chicken on skewers), veggies with
dip, cut fresh fruit, and other such things work
well. A good selection of pupu is all you need
if you're having just a few freinds over for
cocktails.
Keep it all in the tropical theme though.
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Main Course
If you're having a large luau then your friends will
need something more substantial: Pork is the
meat of choice at any luau. If you can get a roast
pig then GET ONE. It's traditional, your friends will
flip and you'll be able to feed lots and lots of
people. Our friend Gerad actually buries a pig in
his backyard and cooks it the traditional way, over
hot rocks for his luaus. If you're not that
courageous, we suggest either having a
professional caterer supply one (see below)
or what we did this year was to go to a nearby
Latin Market (El Cubano in North Hollywood, CA)
and order the pig about a week in advance.
A 50 lb. pig can feed about 80 people.
We then had to pick it up and then take it to a
Latin bakery (La Rosa Blanca also in North
Hollywood) the day before the luau for
overnight marinating and roasting. I'm sure
many other Latin markets in large cities will do
the same. Call ahead to make arrangements.
Then you'll need to pick it up from the bakery
on Luau day and bring it home. Serve it with
sweet and sour sauce on the side.
It was outstanding and we saved BIG bucks!
Otherwise barbecued ribs, chicken, fish and
other such island delicacies are all excellent.
Just remember: Luau is all about eat and drink
so you need to have plenty of both!
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2002 BUFFET PICS
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