3 course quick holiday meal for 9

happy35

if it is sunny while you are away a mozzarella and tomato salad with basil and balsamic vinegar dressing is nice and light

a quick dessert is a prebough sweet pastry case filled with macsarpone sweetened with icing sugar decorated with strawberries, i somtimes do this with meringues and find that kiwi fruit is really nice on the top

If you could take a slow cooker with you I would take one, would come in really handy for main courses as you could cook a joing while you are out for the day or curries, casseroles etc

puddy

for that many people and bearing in mind you're on holiday you really need someething you mix together in one pot or dish and people help themselves.

fiddling about with poached eggs and wrapping things up for 9 portions would be time consuming i reckon

so starter could be a simple potato salad with bits of bacon, a mayonaisy type dressing with added bits like chives, garlic, capers, bits of tomato
you can chop all that up whilst the pots are cooking, fry off the bacon a bit, bobs your uncle

desert, a large rice pudding bung it in the oven (presuming the cottage has one) and it cooks itself or roasted fruit like pears sprinkled with black pepper and honey, apples with cinnamon etc etc

the chicken dish, im well into spanish food at the moment and theres couple of 'spanish chicken' dishes ive found where basically you chop up a whole chicken or just put loads of thighs on a baking dish with onions, herbs, olive oil, lemon rind, maybe some sultanas, pine nuts that sort of thing. nice with a salad

cdodd

I would go for chicken chasseur in the slow cooker, either chicken thighs or a whole chicken, pasatta, chopped up onion, garlic, s&p, dried thyme, worcester sauce, chopped veg eg carrots and/or peppers, bung in sc in the morning before you go out and it will be perfect by tea time, meat will just fall off the bone, serve with rice or potato.

I think the microwaved pud suggested earlier is good for quick and easy pud, roasted veg or tomato soup for starter, could make the night before and leave in the fridge to warm up the next day.

poppy-glos

hi, for starter i like pate and toast, do a pack of smoked mackeral fillets (pull of the skin) and blend with whizz stick or magimix with half a block of butter and small tub of cream to be indulgent, or just with some 0% greek yogurt to aid the calorie control. i don't often make meat/liver pate so would buy a slab of that, and do sauted mushrooms and onion blended with some cream cheese for a veggie one.

main the chicken curry and rice sounds nice

and pud, um, fresh fruit cut into chunks and everyone help themselves - a bit like fruit salad but bigger chunks on a board...

have a lovely holiday

rsdiscos

Thanks for the idea about the chorizo chicken that sounds lovely.
I also forgot about pate!
Melissa