What would be your Come Dine With Me menu be?

[Snot]

Based on things you have cooked in the past?
I've got a dinner party for 8 next weeken and will be cooking;

Hot and Sour Soup (need to find a better recipe from last time!)
Chicken in Black Bean Sauce (from scratch using salted black beans from an International food store in Liverpool)
Banana Fritters with golden syrup.

[V8mate]

Good plan, Snot. Play it safe. If any of your dishes fail, you just call the local Chinky takeaway

[V8mate]

thegavster said:

Reliable dishes I can make with my eyes closed would be:

Beef Carpaccio
Undecided - too much choice...
Eton Mess

I guess it would be a strawberry pavlova if it wasn't for you cooking with your eyes closed

[underneath2424]

For my British friends...

Leek and potato soup as a starter
Home made cottage pie as a main
Home maid apple pie with custard cream!

Boring ? Or for fish lovers...

Sprout & prawn salad (Chill and lemon mayo)
Sun dried tomato and fresh salmon pizza
Hard rich cheese cake with balsamic sauce (It is sweet and sower! just jus the balsamic)

If Japanese friends come...

Dashi-maki egg (Japanese style soup stock omelet)
Temaki-sushi
Macha ice cream!

I miss Temaki-sushi....

(Temaki (手巻き, lit. hand rolls). A large cone-shaped piece of nori on the outside and the ingredients spilling out the wide end. A typical temaki is about ten centimeters (4 in) long, and is eaten with fingers because it is too awkward to pick it up with chopsticks. Each guest make it by their self to pick their favorite ingredients!)

[Romanymagic]

Did this for Mother's day and would definitely put together again:


Starters: Red onion, feta & olive tartlet, served with vine tomato & mint leaf salad

Main: Grainy Mustard & Shredded Mozzarella stuffed Chicken, enclosed in smoked ham, served with garlicky thyme potato fondant & lightly buttered asparagus

Dessert: White wine Lemon Syllabub, served with delicate Almond thins

[Cactussed]

Actually, I have one of these coming up soon, so need to come up with a suitable menu.

Starters I am thinking:
Ricotta cakes with a fresh tomato salsa; or
Fresh Porcini Ravioli or Tortelini (need to make the pasta though); or
Fresh scallops

Wine: Scallops will be a Sauvignon Blanc. Otherwise, the others need some more oomph, so possibly a Chablis.

Main course:
Duck; or
Beef
Dauphinoise potatoes
Caramelised baby carrots

Win has to be Bordeaux, or St Emilion. Got some stuff which is ready for drinking.

Selection of ripe cheeses with some lovely new world red.

Dessert will probably be a summer pudding, assuming I can make it work, with creme anglaise.
Failing that, something chocolate based.
Or a fresh lime and mint panna cotta with a raspberry coulis.

Wasehd down with some chilled Sauterne.

Then a quick burp and straight to the couch!

[camgear]

Snot said:

International food store in Liverpool

WH Lung?

[convert]

Prawn, horseradish and spring onion, encased in oak smoked salmon; served with red onion and sweet chilli salsa and a few fresh leaves

Beef Wellington, served with potato rostis and slow roasted onions and carrots.


Finally a chocolate pudding, filled with hot orange marmalade (thick cut) and fresh double cream.

[smack]

Cactussed said:

Actually, I have one of these coming up soon, so need to come up with a suitable menu.

When do you want me to arrive?

Fresh pasta and beef please - I'll bring the wine!

[Cactussed]

LOL!
Actually, I should do dinner soon!
Was also chatting to my mate Pete with the Yellow TR yesterday, apparently you 2 know each other?

[smack]

Cactussed said:

LOL!
Actually, I should do dinner soon!
Was also chatting to my mate Pete with the Yellow TR yesterday, apparently you 2 know each other?

That we do... How did I come up?

[shakotan]

"Prawn Cocktail" but using my homemade chilli/balsamic/strawberry dressing instead of thousand island. Decent fat prawns too!

Honey and Mustard glazed Pork Medallions with apple mashed potatoes and wilted spinach with shallots and walnuts in a balsamic/brown sugar reduction.

Baked Chocolate and Mandarin Cheesecake with pureed blueberries and creme fraishe.

[Cactussed]

smack said:

Cactussed said:

LOL!
Actually, I should do dinner soon!
Was also chatting to my mate Pete with the Yellow TR yesterday, apparently you 2 know each other?

That we do... How did I come up?

Can't recall, I think Pete just mentioned that he knew you.

[Bebs]

Cactussed said:

Actually, I have one of these coming up soon, so need to come up with a suitable menu.

Starters I am thinking:
Ricotta cakes with a fresh tomato salsa; or
Fresh Porcini Ravioli or Tortelini (need to make the pasta though); or
Fresh scallops

Wine: Scallops will be a Sauvignon Blanc. Otherwise, the others need some more oomph, so possibly a Chablis.

Main course:
Duck; or
Beef
Dauphinoise potatoes
Caramelised baby carrots

Win has to be Bordeaux, or St Emilion. Got some stuff which is ready for drinking.

Selection of ripe cheeses with some lovely new world red.

Dessert will probably be a summer pudding, assuming I can make it work, with creme anglaise.
Failing that, something chocolate based.
Or a fresh lime and mint panna cotta with a raspberry coulis.

Wasehd down with some chilled Sauterne.

Then a quick burp and straight to the couch!

[Anna_S]

Bebs said:

Cactussed said:

Actually, I have one of these coming up soon, so need to come up with a suitable menu.

Starters I am thinking:
Ricotta cakes with a fresh tomato salsa; or
Fresh Porcini Ravioli or Tortelini (need to make the pasta though); or
Fresh scallops

Wine: Scallops will be a Sauvignon Blanc. Otherwise, the others need some more oomph, so possibly a Chablis.

Main course:
Duck; or
Beef
Dauphinoise potatoes
Caramelised baby carrots

Win has to be Bordeaux, or St Emilion. Got some stuff which is ready for drinking.

Selection of ripe cheeses with some lovely new world red.

Dessert will probably be a summer pudding, assuming I can make it work, with creme anglaise.
Failing that, something chocolate based.
Or a fresh lime and mint panna cotta with a raspberry coulis.

Wasehd down with some chilled Sauterne.

Then a quick burp and straight to the couch!

You might be in luck, think it's his turn

[Bebs]

Anna_S said:

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You might be in luck, think it's his turn

[cramorra]

a soup with whiff
Mushroom or pumpkin in winter, cold melon or gazpacho in summer

Lamb (buterflied leg from the oven) or a roast in winter a BBQ in summer

eaton mess or fresh beery with pannacotta in summer
Crumble with home made ice cream or sticky toffe pud in winter

[Cactussed]

oooh. Actually, I jsut thought of another starter.

[jimothy]

Bloody Mary soup to start (roasted tomatoes, basil, garlic, chilli, souped up with a splash of vodka)

either:
Chicken steamed in wine (chicken breast stuffed with sundried tomatoes, mozarella and tarragon, steamed in white wine, after a few hours thicken the juice into a nice sauce) with freshly baked bread and salad.

or:
Steak marinated in vodka with potato and sweet potato chips

Dessert would be difficult as we don't often have dessert, probably a hazlenut galiard.

Then cheese, obviously.

Chabils with the chicken, or a nice malbec with the steak.

[neilsfishing]

the problem I have with cooking for frends is by the time its main corse 1-2 red are finished and concertration ick hasd gon