Menu for bonfire night?

jay-jay

Having a big party to night but cant get motivated. Please let me know what your up to and help me get going, minds a blank apart from buying in some hot choccie cream and marshmellows yum! Plus its chucking it down with rain here:sad:

Seakay

Bonfire night parties always make me think of baked potatoes, possibly roast chestnuts.
How about mulled wine (or mulled grape juice - tastes just as good, remember to add less or no sugar)
Hope your weather cheers up - thick fog here so sort of dry and yet also wet!

FunkyFairy

We are having a party too.

I am doing veg soup, hot dogs and baked potatoes.

The sausages and the pots are going to be cooked on a BBQ.

We to are having hot choc with cream and marshmellows.

The plan is to get the BBQ going, eat the soup while watching fireworks then by which time the sausages and pots should be ready.

Oh forgot to say i am starting the pots off in the microwave 1st.

i_wanna_save_money!

I am making black peas (love 'em), meat and potato pie and lots of hot vimto

jay-jay

Thanks everyone for the ideas. In the end we had a fantastic time, we made hm soup to eat outside in mugs which went down a treat, choc/toffee apples for everyone and then later we came in for curry with jacket spuds, lovely. The whole sky with alight at 6.30 and went on for over two hours what a fab night!

morganb

i_wanna_save_money! wrote: »

I am making black peas (love 'em), meat and potato pie and lots of hot vimto

What are black peas, please??

Pink.

Hi morganb,

Have a look here: black peas

Pink

kunekune

I have offered to entertain some friends and colleagues next Saturday. It's organised around the local bonfire and fireworks. The bonfire is lit at 7 and the fireworks are at 7.30 - the park is a 5-10 minute walk from our house, depending on the age of the walker. I will be catering for 8-12 people, none are vegetarian or particularly fussy but my daughter - the youngest child there - is very scared of chilli or even pepper in her food. One of the boys coming is a teenager who eats HUGE amounts of food. There are some people I'd like to impress ...

I'm thinking in terms of a mug of home made soup to start with, and then setting out for the park. When we get back, I'd like to serve two main courses and a choice of puddings. The really tricky thing with planning is that the house will be empty for the time in between courses, so they will need to be cooked in advance and warmed up when we get back. Oh, and I don't have a slow cooker (yet???). The other tricky thing is we don't have room for a sit-down meal for this number, so some may be eating with a plate on their knee on the sofa.

My current ideas are:

Pre-bonfire course: home made spicy pumpkin & coconut soup, bought tomato soup for the non-spice eaters (or if there's some left from today, some home made leek potato and bacon soup), served with either home made corn bread or scones. This will be served in cups, so it's easy to manage. All of this first course can be prepared in advance and just warmed up just before the guests arrive, which is probably 6 ish.

Post-bonfire courses:

Savoury: THIS IS WHERE I'M STUMPED!

I'm looking for one or two one-pot dishes that will reheat fast on the hob and that don't need fancy accompaniments. The best idea I've come up with so far is a glazed gammon joint, served cold, a beef casserole, cheesy stuffed baked potatoes and a salad.

Pudding: apple crumble, pineapple upside down cake, cream and ice cream.

These would have to be cooked in advance and reheated or cooked while the guests were eating their main course.

I'd love some more ideas, including ideas about how to come up with hot food FAST when we get back. I don't want to spend too much money but there's a reasonable budget for food (I already have 500g shin of beef and a gammon joint in the house, anyway).

Edited to add: but then I also have 800g of thin sirloin, 800g of sausage meat, a whole organic chicken, two packs of raw prawns, some smoked haddock and lots of mince. So there is no reason why it has to be beef and gammon! And I could shop if the best idea turned out to be something like sausages or chicken drumsticks.

Penny-Pincher!!

HM Soup and rolls
HM Sausage Rolls
Wedges & Chilli
Nachos & Chilli
Toasted Sarnies

HTH
PP
xx

Lalaladybird

Don't know if this helps at all but I have always remembered going to a bonfire party when I was a little girl at a farm and the farmers wife chucked loads of potatoes wrapped in foil into the bonfire and after an hour fished them out and they were the tastiest baked potatoes ever.... she had a table laid with loads of baked potato fillings and everyone was happy:o