Menu for bonfire night?

Bronnie

Keep the bacon for yourselves that will make you lots of budget meals! Why not serve some nice, cheap and warming soup. Keep it simple!!

DD made a creamy pumpkin soup the other day and it was delish or a curried parsnip or french onion . Get some whoopsied french sticks and warm them through or make garlic bread.

You could line a large shallow baking tin with pastry and top with caramellised apple slices and serve this cut into squares to use up your apples and have a bit of a 'toffee apple' theme going on!!

goggle

jacket potatos with cheese & bacon? you can get 2 snacks out of a potato if you bake them, scoop out the middles & put the skins back in the oven to crisp up a bit. Potato skins (bit of cheese & maybe crumbled bacon & sour cream?) & also a bowl of scrummy mash

What about spiced pumpkin&parsnip soup? bit of crusty bread & that would be lovely!

I'm sure people will have a great time!

Patchwork_Quilt

Whenever we have people over in big bunches, I find that chilli in the slow cooker is very inexpensive - all those tomatoes and beans to go with the meat. This leaves the oven free for a monster batch of baked potates. Put a bowl of sour cream out and one of cheese.

Borrow plates and glasses from friends. Ask people to bring a bottle/some beer

You could make Parkin, which is another Bonfire Night staple (don't have a recipe I'm afraid but it's a tray bake so cheap and can be made beforehand)

My famous chilli recipe, which has got as far as Poland, is

500 g mince
2 tins tomatoes
2 tins drained kidney beans
2 or 3 peppers, cut into strips
a large onion, chopped
1 tablesp mixed herbs
1 teasp salt or an Oxo
1 teasp chilli pdr
1/2 teasp cumin pdr
3 crushed cloves garlic
Tabasco sauce (optional) to taste
Thicken with cornflour at the end

Mix well and switch slow cooker to auto. Bake 8 hours. Is better second time around.

If you haven't got a slow cooker, you could invest. It will save you money in the future.

Lizbetty

Hi everyone!

As usual, me and dh have the trick of inviting folk around and not planning what to feed them. We have some very cheap fireworks from asda and will have 5 adults and 3 kids under 5 to feed tonight...

We have some beef mince (offer at Sainsburys on Taste the Difference stuff) and potatoes, lots of spices and things, so could make a chilli con carne. I've never made a proper one mind you.

Does anyone have any cheap bonfire night recipes please? Economy parkin maybe?? I'm having to stay in most of today because of 'ladies problems' and so I'm stuck with what I have in the cupboard. I do have lots of things in (apart from vanilla extract..my 2 year old has just polished the bottle off while I was typing this! Eeeeeek!). i just don't know where to start.

TIA folks, I always intend to do it cheaply but end up spending too much but we really can't do that this month as we're brassic

Love and best wishes
Lucy xx

Mrs_Thrify

Hi, I would just give everyone a jacket potatoe with cheese or baked beans as a filling. A hot drink such as tea or coffee to hold as it is cold standing outside.


Or a hot dog/burger in bun. People are comming to be social and see the fireworks not for a dinner party.

Have fun.Julie

craftynutters

hi you could make what we call lobby brown off mince or use chopped corned beef peel and chop potatoes into chunks about size of 10p put in pan with chopped onions, water gravy granuals and a dollop of brown sauce and boil, simmer till just starting to mush and serve lovely :D you can serve in bowls or cups with a spoon if feeling adventurus add dumplings:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

tallulah20

Hiya -

I am also doing one on saturday for similar amount and similar ages - I am going to do a big chilli and put in slow cooker and people can help themselves with lots of tesco value garlic bread wrapped in foil to keep warm! for pudding I was going to make the fantastic twinks hob nobs I found on here and a mars bar tray bake - goes well with tea and coffee!

I agree with what the other poster said - its more about the fun of the evening than anything else! have fun!
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xx

greenbee

Given the stuff you've already got, I'd make a chilli (check the recipe index, there are bound to be loads of recipes!), with baked potatoes and cheese. If you have a slow cooker, bung the chilli in asap and leave it, as chillis work well cooked slowly. If not, make it now so it's out of the way, and then warm it up when you need it.

Use a cake recipe that you're confident with, and rather than using an ordinary cake tin, make it as a traybake (if you don't have a baking tray the right size, line a roasting tin with baking parchment), so you can give people squares to hold when they're outside rather than slices that need plates. Something with mixed spice/cinnamon/ginger/raisins is nice and bonfire-y!

If you're feeling up to making toffee, you could make 'bonfire toffee', or alternatively toffee apples (you can dip segments rather than whole apples, as you'll probably find people don't really want a whole one - too much apple, not enough toffee )

Good luck - and have fun!

tallulah20

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If you're feeling up to making toffee, you could make 'bonfire toffee', or alternatively toffee apples (you can dip segments rather than whole apples, as you'll probably find people don't really want a whole one - too much apple, not enough toffee )

Good luck - and have fun![/QUOTE]


Thats sounds good - how do you make toffee?!

timmmers

Cinder toffee is easy.
http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/534217

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