The Great 'Dinner party for 4 for under £10' Hunt

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lostinrates wrote: »

Thanks for this confirmation Caterina!


Btw, to truely horrify, my favourite carbonara ever, the cook told me their secret...a dash of vermouth. Dh almost died at the thought, but it was delicious.

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lostinrates, your posts alway make me smile!

rachbc

HM chicken liver pate, onion marmalade and bruschette (butter 98p, chicken livers 50p, baguette 39p, onions 20p)
Tarragon chicken, petit pois a la francais (small whole chicken £2.79, cream 79p, tarragon 65p, peas 99p, little gem 69p)
Chocolate mousse (choc 99p eggs 95p)

£9.91 - and you'd have some cream, butter and 2 eggs left over. This does assume you have salt, pepper and sugar in but inc buying whole packs of all the thing you need to make the meal rather than the cost of 4 eggs etc.

prices are based on aldi ex chicken livers and tarragon from asda.

edited afte checked a couple of prices in aldi today!

It is possible but the reality is - i'm taking dessert to a dinner party this weekend and spending about £10 on that plus at least the same again on a bottle of wine

katecheshire

Asda usually have small bottles of decent wine on offer at 4 for £5. Enough for a couple of glasses or ideal for use in cooking if, like us, you don't drink very often so opening a full bottle could be wasteful.

LannyLee

The closest I can get is £10.59, but that is with buying full amounts of things, so you will have leftover for another day. I've assumed that people have a basic store cupboard, with butter, salt pepper etc

This is all based on current prices today from ASD@ website.

My menu:

Pate with french stick & caramelised onion

Pea & Bacon risotto

Pavlova with fruit sauce

Just noticed it's all 'P's'!!! :0)

Pate x 2 - £1.16
2 x part baked baguettes - 78p
1 loose onion - approx 100g - 9p

Risotto:

Arborio rice - £1.12
Smoked Lardons - £1.28
Garlic & herb cream cheese - 50p
Frozen peas - £1.00
Chicken Stock cubes - 50p

Pavlova:

6 eggs - £1.00
Double cream - 55p
Frozen forest fruits - £2.00
Sugar - 61p

You will have some leftover, for eg; that includes 6 eggs, but you will only need 4 egg whites, & 1kg of frozen peas, but you will only use approx 250g etc

Not too bad for just over £10!!

MidLifeCrisis_3

What about this wine to go with dinner....

A panel of experts has named a wine sold by Aldi for just £3.59 as one of the world’s best. Judges at the International Wine and Spirit Competition awarded the own brand Spanish Toro Loco Tempranillo from 2011 a silver medal. Described as ‘fruity, rounded and appealing’ with hints of ‘nice bright cherry’ it excelled in blind taste tests alongside reds costing nearly ten times as much.

I suppose some dinner party hosts might feel insulted if a guest turned up with a cheap bottle of plonk from Aldi tho!


Personally, tried it, loved it and will be buying more in future. As a host I don't tend to look too hard at the small print on the back. As a guest I would probably confess anyway as IMO (and clearly that of the judges) it's very good.

MLC

kitschkitty

It'd be easier in my house, because we don't really drink wine, so if you came to tea you'd have to bring your own anyway!

Also some interesting points raised above, but the recipes that depend on foraged or home grown ingredients aren't going to be a possibility for the vast majority of the population, so I don't think they should count towards the £10 challenge (unless the ingredients could be bought within that budget).

Also I think an important thing about a starter, main & dessert is that they should actually go together - not give you indigestion or a bad taste in your mouth!

Nelski

Egg homemade chips and beans with some buttered bread
2 bottles of wine (asda 3 for 10 therefore plenty left for glamorous main )

That would be my friends choice for sure :rotfl::rotfl:

butterfly72

lostinrates wrote: »

Btw, to truely horrify, my favourite carbonara ever, the cook told me their secret...a dash of vermouth. Dh almost died at the thought, but it was delicious.

I keep in a bottle of vermouth - handy for recipes in which you need wine, risotto for example. Will have to try it in a carbonara. Thanks for the tip!