Pirate themed food- help needed!

[shinyaholic]

My wonderful DH has promised his son that we can have a Pirate Picnic this weekend and is now panicking because he can't think what food to do!

I've taken pity on him and offerent to sort it out and so far have:

Chicken drumsticks (maybe with a nice BBQ glaze if anyone has a good recipe)
Pirates Teeth (corn on the cob)
Seaweed pasta (green tagliatelle with pesto)
Palm Trees (carrots topped with green pepper held together by toothpicks)

and now I'm stuck! It'll be an indoor picnic as the weather forecast is rubbish, so food can be hot or cold. SS is allergic to dairy (apparently, although his Mum lets him eat Chicken Korma, cakes, biscuits and Yorkshire puddings ), but apart from that anything goes.

Any ideas?

[littlepinkpiglet]

Banana boats.

[shinyaholic]

Banana boats.

Is that banana filled with fresh fruit? I like the sound of that. Maybe I could use some maple syrup to sweeten it as ice cream and chocolate are no-gos.

I've thought of Golden Nuggets (home made fish nuggets) too.

Thanks littlepinkpiglet

[Amanda36]

Just done a search and come up with

Pirate Birthday Party Food:
Here are some cool ideas for pirate birthday party food (remember to make little signs in front of each dish to make sure the kids recognize that it's authentic pirate food…).

*Chicken legs (no utensils allowed!!)
*Seaweed Pasta (Green Linguine)
*Treasure Salad (add dried cranberries, golden raisins and pecans in the salad
*Hot Dog Ships (spear a wooden skewer through a small piece of paper to make a schooner sail and then pierce it through a hot dog, then add a few Goldfish crackers)
*Octopus (split hot-dogs)
*Pirate's Teeth (corn)
*Golden Treasures (macaroni and cheese)
*Golden Nuggets (chicken nuggets)
*Veggie Palm Trees - Cut up various vegetable and serve on a platter with dip. You can then decorate the platter with palm trees that you make out of vegetables. The way you make these is by taking a carrot and securing it in the vegetables with a toothpick. Then take the top fourth of a green pepper, cut a small whole for the carrot to fit snuggly in and you have a palm tree!
*Fish 'n' Chips
Pirate Birthday Party Drinks:
*Frosty Ale (root beer) in mugs.
*Sharks Blood (take red Kool-aid or punch and make them as ice cubes…. Then you take sprite and the kids get to drop the red Kool-aid ice cubes into the sprite - kids think it's awesome that the drink turns pink/red…. This can also be called "Crocodile" or "Alligator" blood… whichever you think is tastier….)


Pirate Patch PB&J sandwiches- circle shaped, peg legs- carrots, goldfish crackers and ocean with sunken treasures- blue Jell-O with diced peaches.
canon balls- grapes, red rubies- strawberries and treasure salad had dried cranberries and golden raisins and pecans

(have copied these ideas of a couple of websites)


http://recipehut.homestead.com/KidsRecipe.html

Sounds like fun, hope you have a great pirate party.

[~Flutterby~]

What about some Fruit jelly boats (jelly pirate ships )

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/food/rec...?recipeid=3743

[shinyaholic]

Brilliant, thank you!

[bean80]

Pirate ice cubes!!!! I know a place where you can get them in Liverpool though and proabably too short notice.

[shinyaholic]

Pirate ice cubes?! They sound so cool! Is it something like this?

[bean80]

Exactly exactly that - I'm always on the look out for stuff like that for Mr Scrobble x