Supper Guests Part Two

[Paddy's mum]

Well, ishers came up with a very varied choice of supper party guests. Certainly got me doing a bit of internet research and added some to my knowledge of this world.

So, we now know who we want. Next question - what food would you elect to have?

Would others prefer to bring whatever is their own "best dish" and all efforts get put out on a huge table and guests do a kind of 'pick and mix' or what?

According to my family, my beef casserole and my fruit cakes take some beating but my sponge cakes come out looking like a close relative of the pancake.

Remember, as has already been pointed out, we'd have Jesus Christ there so no problems about the wine!

[Wombat]

I'd cook...............I'd put on one of my Asian feasts, everybody seems to enjoy those -

Entre would be Sang Choy Bow and/ or Mini spring rolls

Red cooked pork
Mixed (home grown of course) vegetables and noodles with vegetarian oyster sauce.
Sate Chicken
Mussuman curry
BBQ Pork Omelete (Chinese style)
Fried Rice and boiled rice

Dessert (I haven't tried to make this yet but would give it a go) Deep Fried Ice cream.

Nev

[Masco&Bongo]

Mashed potatoes, warm bread rolls, and a huge pot of either steak and ale casserole or chicken and veg casserole

Nigella's Chocolate Cloud Cake, or a chocolate cheesecake for dessert

Nice simple food

[Shirley]

I'd cook...............I'd put on one of my Asian feasts, everybody seems to enjoy those -

Entre would be Sang Choy Bow and/ or Mini spring rolls

Red cooked pork
Mixed (home grown of course) vegetables and noodles with vegetarian oyster sauce.
Sate Chicken
Mussuman curry
BBQ Pork Omelete (Chinese style)
Fried Rice and boiled rice

Dessert (I haven't tried to make this yet but would give it a go) Deep Fried Ice cream.

Nev

How long will it take me to get to yours!! That sounds delicious.

Depending on the time of year, colder months I would do a big pan of chili, a big pan of hotpot and a pan of something veggie for my veggie friends...

In the summer, I quite fancy a foragers barbie... have some essentials handy, but go for a walk in the morning to see what we can find to eat.

Pudding - I don't really do sweet stuff that often, but Ina's honey flapjacks are the most delicious thing I've ever tasted.

[pskipper]

I think I'd do something fairly simple,

Chickpea and sundried tomato pate with toast as a starter.

My own recipe steak and mushroom pie with new potatos and freshly picked veg, probably beans and carrots.

And for desert Sir Kennon Digby's White Pot which has to be the ultimate in bread and butter puddings (excepting chocolate containing ones).

Last time I did this I had guests sneaking into the kitchen to scrape the bowls

[Shirley]

Ummm... recipes please :D - we've got a recipe thread somewhere :D

[Martin]

Roast Southdown leg of lamb with all the trimmings and mint sauce, followed by spotted dick and custard!

[Andy Hamilton]

Just about to have lunch so all I can think about is food at the moment, probally the best time to anwser this.

Definelty depends on the time of the year and in Jan here in the UK there is not much about. As the guests were from any moment in time then I guess that the food is too.

Hmm, thought I could put a big list of things here the more I think the more I will have to say - new food. I mean a whole bunch of dishes that I have never tried, I love trying new foods and according to an ancient japanese proverb new foods add an extra week to your life.

Meat - would like to try goose, squirrel, cockrell (instead of chicken) and some of the rarer breed of pig.

Vegetables - Defientley would like to try nev's choko (custard marrow), blue potatoes, black radish.

And a fruit salad for afters made from all the wierd and wonderfull african fruits that I have not tried.

[Shirley]

I can offer you goose and cockerel... and blue tatties..

Chicken doesn't mean just female anyway so (assuming you do mean cockerel rather than some other bird that I've not heard of) you've possibly tasted it without knowing.

Blue tatties and red tatties... we had some last year from the local organic tatty grower... I'm going to grow some myself this year.

Rare breed pig... Stoney's pork is fantastic. We had a roast leg yesterday. Scrummmmmmmmmmy.

[Stonehead]

Rare breed pig... Stoney's pork is fantastic. We had a roast leg yesterday. Scrummmmmmmmmmy.

You just want an invite to dinner again!

I'm a fan of the old-fashioned farmhouse dinner/supper. Big platters of good stuff, people sitting along the table on benches, chairs, kegs and even straw bales when the chairs run out, and more kegs on tap. (Ask Shirlz!)

So, something along the lines of:

Baked fish - trout, salmon, whatever's been caught recently stuffed with dill, lemon and garlic.

A couple of big pies, hot or cold. Beef and mushroom, bacon and potato, fidget pie (rabbit, pigeon, forcemeat), rabbit pie, pork pie, mutton pie, potato and leek pie, whatever!

A big pot of curry.

A big pot of stew.

A roast, probably hot but cold can be good too. My vaguely Caribbean roast pork might be a good one - rubbed with allspice, chilli, crushed juniper, orange zest, cinnamon, cumin, coriander and various other things.

Potatoes roasted in the coals of an open fire.

A few monstrous salads with lots of home-grown veg and rather odd dressings that actually work quite well.

Piles of freshly baked bread rolls and loaves of bread.

Home-made crisp bread, flat breads.

A couple of big cheeses.

Piles of grapes and apples to freshen things up a bit in between eating all the other things.

An assortment of wicked desserts: cheese cakes, pavlova, my 90% chocolate, chocolate "cake" (hands off Shirlz!), etc.

Kegs of cider, ale, stout, nettle ale plus bottles of barley wine, treacle ale, apple beer, and the like.

Four to six hours at least to enjoy it, plus some music and a bit of dancing.


And yes, I really do these!

[Shirley]

Rare breed pig... Stoney's pork is fantastic. We had a roast leg yesterday. Scrummmmmmmmmmy.

You just want an invite to dinner again!

Damn.... I've been rumbled

I'm a fan of the old-fashioned farmhouse dinner/supper. Big platters of good stuff, people sitting along the table on benches, chairs, kegs and even straw bales when the chairs run out, and more kegs on tap. (Ask Shirlz!)

It's true... The Stonehead family know how to look after their guests... party or no party, in sickness and in health... guests/visitors/friends are always well and truly looked after.

An assortment of wicked desserts: cheese cakes, pavlova, my 90% chocolate, chocolate "cake" (hands off Shirlz!), etc.

Unfair... sulks! Mind you, at least you didn't tell me to keep my hands off that delicious fidget pie!

And yes, I really do these!

Yup - he really does

[Stonehead]

And for desert Sir Kennon Digby's White Pot which has to be the ultimate in bread and butter puddings (excepting chocolate containing ones).

Good old Kenelm Digby and his closet, much favoured by hard-core makers of mead and cordial.

A white pot for the uninformed is:

"Take three quarts of cream, and put into it the yolks of twelve eggs; the whites of four, being first very well beaten between three quarters of a pound of sugar, two nutmegs grated, a little salt; half a pound of rRaisins first plump'd. These being sliced together, cut some thin slices of a stale manchet; dry them in a dish against the fire, and lay them on the top of the cream, and some marrow again upon the bread, and so bake it."

Manchet is fine white bread. I use butter instead of marrow fat, though!

Oh, and that's from the late 1660s.

[Wombat]

I'd cook...............I'd put on one of my Asian feasts, everybody seems to enjoy those -

Entre would be Sang Choy Bow and/ or Mini spring rolls

Red cooked pork
Mixed (home grown of course) vegetables and noodles with vegetarian oyster sauce.
Sate Chicken
Mussuman curry
BBQ Pork Omelete (Chinese style)
Fried Rice and boiled rice

Dessert (I haven't tried to make this yet but would give it a go) Deep Fried Ice cream.

Nev

How long will it take me to get to yours!! That sounds delicious.

Let me know when you'll be round takes me about 3-4 hours so i need a little bit of notice!

nev