Saturday 31 December 2011

Feeding guests quickly and easily at New Year.

Dear Ann,

I have to feed unexpected guests quickly and easily this New Years eve. Any suggestions?


Two good ideas for this one : First one is to ask each of your guests to bring something to contribute to a buffet, but tell them what to provide, nothing too complicated. Ask half your visitors to bring something sweet and the other half something savoury. Include at least two vegetarian options. For example:

Sweet  

Chocolate cake
Pavlova
Fancy Biscuits or mini rolls
Fruit or fruit salad
Cheese and biscuits

Savoury

Dips and bread sticks
vegetarian quiche
sausage rolls
Ready cooked chicken drum sticks
Hummus or cream cheese

You provide plenty of whipped cream to go with desserts and several french sticks sliced up.

Second option is a stew with dumplings or a chilli with quorn mince for vegetarians. Buy packet mix for dumplings to save time, drop them on top of the stew and cover for last 20 mins of cooking time. The good thing about these one pot dishes is that you can just ladle them out as people want them and they can be kept warm.

For dessert try scones with jam and whipped cream. make your own or buy ready made it doesn't really matter. Make sure you've got a good quality jam though and plenty of thick, whipped cream. Be generous! Your guests will love this.

Ask everyone to bring a bottle of what they would like to drink, alcoholic or non-alcoholic.

Hope I've helped out with these ideas.

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