A few months ago, the Unicycles took our parents on a tasting to choose food for the wedding. I'm not that into food, to be honest. That could be why it's taken me months to post this. I can't tell the difference between different cuts of steak or between a $5 bottle and a $500 bottle of wine. I like pretty much all restaurant food. I pretend to hate on Olive Garden, but I secretly find it very fancy. And I eat the exact same thing for breakfast and lunch every single day. Thus, I knew the food at our wedding would taste good to me no matter what we got.
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The venue gave us a menu and said we could choose 2 entrees, 2 vegetables, and 2 starches to taste. The first thing we had to decide was what meat we wanted to serve--the ever popular steak? The crowd pleasing chicken? The ritzy surf and turf? We decided that, if we were going to serve steak or seafood, we had to also offer the option of chicken since it is a crowd pleaser, after all. Not everyone eats red meat or seafood, but most people can stomach some good, ol' fashioned chicken.
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We considered giving everyone a choice between chicken and beef or chicken and fish, but then we read the fine print and discovered that all entrees would cost the same amount, regardless of what each guest ordered. This meant that if we offered chicken and steak, and only one person ordered steak, we would still pay for steak for each and every guest. When you're inviting about 250 guests, and the price difference between different meals can range as much as $15 a head, that's a Big Deal.
So, chicken it is! We chose the Stuffed Breast of Chicken Poulette and the Mediterranean Chicken for our tasting. For sides, we tasted the Steamed Broccoli, the Zucchini and Carrots, the Garlic Whipped Potatoes, and the Parsley Red Potato.
Obligatory face-stuffing pics. I enjoyed the cake-tasting pics so much that I had to feature these too.
And here's the carnage:
We pwned that shiz.
In the end, I thought it all tasted good. Surprise. Mr. Unicycle liked it all too, and our parents' opinions canceled each other out. We decided to go with the entree that seemed "fancier," aka something our guests were less likely to randomly whip up at home some night, which was the Chicken Poulette and Parsley Red Potatoes. Since no one could decide on the vegetable, we're getting both!
We also got to choose our beer and wine selections, our salad, and our hors d'oeuvres. I'm excited about the hors d'oeuvres even though we didn't get to try them--we're getting mini crab cakes, mini deep dish pizzas, and brie with raspberry in a flakey crust. Raspberry is kind of a food theme at our wedding, since we're using it as our cake filling and our salad dressing too--it's Mr. U's flavorite!
Are you a foodie? Or will you eat pretty much anything? How did that affect your tasting experience?
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