Hogwarts Feast served by volunteer House Elves

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Since we were feeding a lot of kids we kept the menu simple (not a lot of cooking) and focused on my daughter’s favorite foods that were easy to make, but made them special by giving them magical sounding names. I printed out signs to put in front of each dish with the magical name. I also printed out the menu (2 per sheet of paper and cut it half) and placed one at each chair around the tables. We made as much as we could ahead of time, so that at the party it was mostly just heating things up in the ovens and microwave at the firehouse hall.

Feast Menu with Directions

Hagrid’s Horned Toad Stew – a yummy thick chicken soup (homemade by Teacherman, he doesn’t follow a recipe), added a few large bones to stick out of it, and served it ladeled from a crockpot.

Professor Dumbledore’s Wizard Combo (dragon dogs, spirals & fromage, doxy beans) – hot dogs with optional chili, corkscrew noodles with sauce and mozerella cheese, and baked beans.  We have a nice three compartment electric serving dish that was perfect for this. (I was going to originally make macroni and cheese – but my daughter asked for the noodles with a red sauce instead – so we just used a couple jars of sauce – I didn’t mind at all, it was easier then making the mac & cheese.) The could easily have been served from three tin foil roasting pans too.

Professor McGonagall’s Transfigured Trio (frog legs, spuds, and ears) – large tin foil pan of chicken wings (baked in oven with a nice sauce), tater tots (frozen from a bag), and small ears of corn (frozen).  We were fortunate that the hall had three big ovens and stoves we could use, so it was easy to reheat everything. But crockpots would have worked also.

Madam Hooch’s Quidditch Pie – a simple Shepherd’s pie in a large tin foil pan (about 3 lbs. of cooked ground beef on bottom, topped with two jars of gravy, 1 package of nibblet corn – thawed and drained, toped with 5 lbs. of mashed potatoes colored green with food coloring (for grass), then decorated with Quidditch cake decorations (two plastic towers and three hoops) that I bougth from Ebay. I made it the night before and just reheated it at the hall, it was quick, easy, and the kids and adults really liked it. If cake decorations are not available, could color some mashed potatos with yellow food coloring, add milk to make them smooth, and pipe with a pastry bag to create snitches (to give the illsion of wings could use a toothpick to draw wings for each snitch into the mashed potato topping itself).

Professor Sprout’s Mixed Greens – HUGE bowl of mixed greens with cherry tomatoes and olives on the side and lots of various dressings, (decorated the area with silk ivy garland).

Professor Snape’s Potions & Brews – soda in pitchers, three carafes filled with flaked jello and koolaide (in red, blue and purple) – looked very cool.  Served from a cart that was brought to the tables as the students enjoyed their feast.

The kids could also continue going up to the 3 Broomsticks Inn for more pumpkin juice, butterbeer and other refreshments.