fire work party

mountainofdebt

Must admit since I saw a programme about how they get the stuff to make hotdogs 'sausages' I've never been able to eat one.....

Why not ask everyone to bring a dish?

The other thing to consider is can your garden cope with 50 people safely?

Pollycat

memelalou wrote: »

Ah i am!

It's something i've always known always to be served at bonfire night along with the usual hot dogs and jacket potatoes. It's always at the seaside too, so it can't be just us strange Nottingham lot:rotfl:.

I'm from Derbyshire and second the mushy peas and mint sauce.

Didn't there used to be a cafe in the Victoria Centre that served mushy peas and mint sauce?

OP
if you buy the dried peas, soak them and boil yourself it would be pretty cheap dish.

kimmi_b

Why not just make the jacket spuds and ask people to bring a topping with them then get the kids to judge the best filling?

My faves for fireworks parties are:-

Chilli - veggie & meat option, topped with cheese
Cheesy beans
Spicy sausage
Bacon & mushroom

brightonman123

i hope most peeps are wise enough to go easy on the beer, until after the bangs!

Fiasco55

My friend holds a party every year to which 40-50 people attend. She is very organised and people are given an item to bring on the night. These include a box of fireworks, sparklers, pot luck dish to share, sing star and wii games - (for indoors when people need some entertaiment whilst warming up) and their swimsuit/shorts as she has a spa pool in her garden.

It is always a good night.

nuttyrockeress

The pie and pea stall I believe is still in Victoria Centre market - used to be my dear departed dad's first stop in Vicky Centre for mushies and mint!

I used to hold a bonfire party for friends on our large garden, along with the mushies and mint, I served jacket spuds, chili, sausage cobs, soup/stew.

People were asked that they bring their own drinks and some fireworks which on arrival were decantered into a plastic box with a lid on (the second time we did this we went on for hours and hours we had that many but there was plenty of food to keep people sustained.

sassy_one

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Must admit since I saw a programme about how they get the stuff to make hotdogs 'sausages' I've never been able to eat one.....

Why not ask everyone to bring a dish?

The other thing to consider is can your garden cope with 50 people safely?

Was this that one on the BBC a few weeks back?

Lovely, and specially how there is 0% meat content!!

AnthonyUK

laura.1984 wrote: »

for god sake surely people can have fireworks and a drink not everybody is stupid to do both. Also whats wrong with hot dogs as a treat? Nothing

It is safer to leave the drink till after the fireworks,I have seen drunken idiots set up and let off fireworks and they think nothing of it until a firework goes wrong usually because it has not been secured before lighting causing it to tip over or rock or flip back and forth while going off or an accident happens to themselves or somebody else thru drunken stupidness ie holding a firework while lit or firing rockets from launchtubes held in the hand. Setting off fireworks when drunk leads to sloppy safety awareness,accidents and mishaps.

carolan78

We have a bonfire party almost every year (my birthday is the 5th so double celebrations lol). We always have jackets with various fillings, pie and peas (pork pies and mushy peas with or without mint sauce), hotdogs and chilli and rice.

For puddings we always have parkin bonfire night isn't bonfire night without it for me Someone usually makes treacle toffee and then we have things like gingerbread men for the kiddies

FatVonD

Toffee apples!