'Easy but impressive' - Buffet/Party food

Brambling

If you want another dessert this is always popular and really quick and easy to make I swap the digestive biscuit for ginger snaps and it works with lemons instead of limes 

https://www.carnation.co.uk/recipes/key-lime-pie-recipe

Banofee pie is another one which goes down well, using the tinned caramel rather than making your own.

strawberries and marshmallows dipped in chocolate 

smoke salmon blinis
pizzas or quesadillas 
tabbouleh salad 
bruschetta with various toppings
small savoury scones ie cheese, cheese and chive, bacon etc
whipped feta dip
some nice bread like focaccia  

ChilliBob

Brambling said:

If you want another dessert this is always popular and really quick and easy to make I swap the digestive biscuit for ginger snaps and it works with lemons instead of limes 

https://www.carnation.co.uk/recipes/key-lime-pie-recipe

Banofee pie is another one which goes down well, using the tinned caramel rather than making your own.

strawberries and marshmallows dipped in chocolate 

smoke salmon blinis
pizzas or quesadillas 
tabbouleh salad 
bruschetta with various toppings
small savoury scones ie cheese, cheese and chive, bacon etc
whipped feta dip
some nice bread like focaccia  

Cheers! I can see the banoffee going down well, with some clotted cream!

Whipped feta I'll look into my wife, and bizarrely my nearly 2 year old daughter, love feta!

Brie - those muffins sound well nice, what's cornmeal thougu? Can't say I've come across they before

Mnoee

Homemade sausage rolls? Very easy prep with ready rolled puff pastry, and you can fancy them up with the fillings. Wholegrain mustard with sausagemeat is a classic, I'll often use Linda McCartney 'chorizo' sausages with some extra spice, I've done veggie haggis with caramelised onions... Just bung in the oven, after minimal prep, good hot or cold! 

Green_hopeful

I quite like doing cooked meats with new potatoes and salad. I normally do turkey and a glazed gammon.  I try not to do anything too complicated or involved. I ‘invented’ banoffee sundaes where I fill glasses with banoffee ingredients. Broken biscuits without butter toffee bananas a dollop of cream and crushed flake on top. You can prepare them in advance and other than whipping the cream there is no actual cooking involved. I find a 100ml is a good size glass. We have proper sundae glasses but I use normal glasses as well or if you have them tea cups or espresso cups can be used. 

kinger101

1. Cheese cubes on cocktail sticks.
2. Silverskin onions on cocktail sticks.
3. Pineapple chucks on cocktail sticks.
4. Little chipolata sausages on cocktail sticks.
5. If you are posh, a combination of 3 of the above four in the same cocktail sticks.
6. Don't overdo it.  Play guitar, harmonica and sing and you're Bob Dylan.  Strap a pair of cymbals between your legs as well and you become a clown..
7. But you could go Margo Ledbetter and stick said cocktail sticks into a potato wrapped in foil.

Florafauna

I think your usual menu sounds lush, I'd stick with that

ChilliBob

Florafauna said:

I think your usual menu sounds lush, I'd stick with that

Cheers! We do like it but I do wonder if family are just being polite when they say oh yeah we really like this one etc! 

ChilliBob

kinger101 said:

1. Cheese cubes on cocktail sticks.
2. Silverskin onions on cocktail sticks.
3. Pineapple chucks on cocktail sticks.
4. Little chipolata sausages on cocktail sticks.
5. If you are posh, a combination of 3 of the above four in the same cocktail sticks.
6. Don't overdo it.  Play guitar, harmonica and sing and you're Bob Dylan.  Strap a pair of cymbals between your legs as well and you become a clown..
7. But you could go Margo Ledbetter and stick said cocktail sticks into a potato wrapped in foil.

I suspect I'd end up poked with many sticks many times by my 6 year old son who'd find it hilarious lol

ChilliBob

Green_hopeful said:

I quite like doing cooked meats with new potatoes and salad. I normally do turkey and a glazed gammon.  I try not to do anything too complicated or involved. I ‘invented’ banoffee sundaes where I fill glasses with banoffee ingredients. Broken biscuits without butter toffee bananas a dollop of cream and crushed flake on top. You can prepare them in advance and other than whipping the cream there is no actual cooking involved. I find a 100ml is a good size glass. We have proper sundae glasses but I use normal glasses as well or if you have them tea cups or espresso cups can be used. 

I'd forgotten that sort of thing - I did go through a phase of that after we had some layered pot things on some holiday!

Cooked meats, yeah my wife loves a pork joint, usually slow cooker pull apart jobbie though. 

New potatoes has reminded me of a potato salad I did a long time ago though.. Think it's due an airing lol

maryb

Mary Berry does a lovely marinaded chicken dish with lemon juice, garlic, honey, parsley and paprika.  Cut chicken breasts into thirds, marinate in the mixture for anything from a hour to overnight,then cook in the oven for 20 minutes.  It comes out a lovely colour but not too spicy.  I serve it with potato salad so there is some sauce plus a green salad which makes it look very colourful and tasty

Another thing I do is mix pesto with mayonnaise as a sauce for salmon.  The pale green looks very pretty over the salmon