help ideas for party food.

boo81

hahaha - I like it!

I only have a metal fondue pot, does anyone know if its safe to make a cheesy fondue in it?

Only thing is wont I need a gallon of cheese to get enough for all of us? Thinking about cost.................thats my only concern

zippychick

Hi Boo

What about Spicy potato wedges and chilli con carne . Get one person to bring a side salad, one to bring desert, and one to bring a starter? That's economical!:rotfl:Bacon sandwiches, fried egg and home made oven chips?

Or easy chicken curry with home made bread ?

You may find other ideas in these threads

OS party food (I'll merge your thread with this one later)

Cheap easy bufffet food

Cheese and wine party MSE style

Pudding and desert recipes

Delicious cold desert

Cold dessert for 11 people?

Thanks
Zip

Grimbal

hmm, yup maybe the cheese would catch too much on the metal pot if you made it from scratch in there - I would be tempted to make it in a saucepan first then pour into the metal fondue pot just to keepwarm. then hopefully you'll only get the nice crusty cheese at the bottom after just keeping it warm. Nigella has a recipe for 4 people here that uses 600g of mixed cheeses.
I'd guess that you could probably make it for under a tenner ?

Liz
x

lostinrates

I make cheese fondue in a copper fondue thingy.

But fondue is not the best good tv food, because you have to look to spike and look to dip and all facing the pot.

I'd certainly go with the cheesey theme though, so funny!

morwenna

Cheesy quick & cheap = Naan bread (or regular based) pizzas. Also no tricky looking at what you are eating and napkins only so washing up is minimal

Cheesecake seems a likely pud - Asda do a really very nice American baked (New York) style in the freezer section for about £2...

Snowy_Owl

In a couple of weeks my hubby and I are having an open house for friends and family to see weddding photos and see the new house etc. I'm looking for simple ideas for food to have out on the table to go with cuppies in the afternoon and then more hot stuff / substantial food to go with drink and for around teatime. Don't have stacks of cash this month and don't want to make the work too much for me as will be copying photos onto discs during the day as well.

All I've got at the moment are 6 tubes of pringles - buy 1 get 2 free from tesco, which I got with my big shop.

Thanks!!

Snowy Owl xx

zippychick

Hi Snowy :j Congrats on the house

here is a list of Links i found from an old post by Pink winged , thanks Pink

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I would make a big pot of curry, a pot of chilli and serve in bowls with bread or you could also make rice. I would probably make a chickpea curry and meat spag bol or lasagne

make some cheese twists and some potato wedges ready to bung in and reheat

Let us know how you go and I will merge this later

thanks
Zip

Snowy_Owl

Thanks very much for this Zippychick! Just had a quick look and some fab ideas!

Thanks , Snowy x

CrazyNerd

Hi everyone,

I could use some ideas for a savory party dish for my manager Christmas party.
I travel by train , so can't be too heavy or sloppy. I also have no facilities to warm things up.

What I don't want to do is stop at M&S on the way and buy a load of expensive food like I resorted to last year!

Thanks in advance for the great ideas!

Penelope_Penguin

CrazyNerd wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I could use some ideas for a savory party dish for my manager Christmas party.
I travel by train , so can't be too heavy or sloppy. I also have no facilities to warm things up.

What I don't want to do is stop at M&S on the way and buy a load of expensive food like I resorted to last year!

Thanks in advance for the great ideas!

How about some HM granary bread, sliced thinly and topped with cream cheese and smoked salmon?