What do you cook for friends??

[rascal]

We regularly have friends over for dinner. I cook usually 3 courses and then.we play cards. Always a good night.
This Saturday we are having 4 close friends over a d I offered wayne the choice of 3 meals. Fish fillet mignon steak or curry night.
Wayne txt me this morning . Curry night it is.
Popadoms
Meat and also vege samosas
Onion bhajees
Butter chicken.
With all the condiments.
Ice cream and coulis


Russ

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

We don't have folks over aka entertain, much but when we did ...
We had a friend who chose to be Vegan, okay, so what do I serve?
I had to use that ever present "Giggle" and came up with this dish ...

Cauliflower crust mini quiches ... I can't remember what else I served, but you can see the Corn on the Cob fresh from the farm a coupla lots up from us. Mind you now, this was prior to Riced Cauliflower and the like - I had to prep it all myself and coming from an Omnivore, who by the way dislikes Cauliflower, it was dang good!
WAIT!

That was Easter Brunch 2017 - there was some Meat & Cheeses of us folks who were into more than veggies.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I usually cook Indian food as well.
Last week was:
Papadums
Vadas ( like falafel, but made with split peas) and tamarind chutney
Minced chicken kababs with kachumbar ( finely diced tomates, cucumber, red onion, coriander leaf, lemon juice and a couple of green chiles. Pico de gallo, but not for wimps )
Mattar paneer ( peas with paneer cheese)
Pigeon peas with cabbage and tomato
Basmati pullao (cook the rice with turmeric, they fry up a few raisins, sliced almonds, a stick of cinnamon and a cardamom or two, mix together, add loads of ghee).
Mango chutney (home made).

 

[TastyReuben]

I’ll let you know as soon as we have some over.

 

[rascal]

I’ll let you know as soon as we have some over.

I know you would put on a " good spread"


Russ

 

[rascal]

I’ll let you know as soon as we have some over.

We have 8 close friends we juggle nights.
6 is perfect for euchre

Russ

 

[rascal]

I usually cook Indian food as well.
Last week was:
Papadums
Vadas ( like falafel, but made with split peas) and tamarind chutney
Minced chicken kababs with kachumbar ( finely diced tomates, cucumber, red onion, coriander leaf, lemon juice and a couple of green chiles. Pico de gallo, but not for wimps )
Mattar paneer ( peas with paneer cheese)
Pigeon peas with cabbage and tomato
Basmati pullao (cook the rice with turmeric, they fry up a few raisins, sliced almonds, a stick of cinnamon and a cardamom or two, mix together, add loads of ghee).
Mango chutney (home made).

I would love to try some of those meals.

Russ

 

[JAS_OH1]

I would love to try some of those meals.

Russ

I wish we all lived a little closer so we could have a big dinner party. Would there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Yes, probably. It would be fun and chaotic, but we'd need a really, really big kitchen!

 

[badjak]

I tend to go for SE Asian food or Indian or a braai
If it's a special occassion, then rijsttafel (Indonesian)

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I wish we all lived a little closer so we could have a big dinner party. Would there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Yes, probably. It would be fun and chaotic, but we'd need a really, really big kitchen!

CB’s cooking camp out, with rooms and decent beds and en-suite bathrooms for those of use who require facilities, what’s that? Everyone then
I imagine the wine would get opened and after the discussion on how to peel a potato entered it’s second hour we’d end up having to order takeaway

 

[karadekoolaid]

we’d end up having to order takeaway

Not on my watch. We make our own burgers!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Not on my watch. We make our own burgers!

Would we? The best way to make a burger conversation would be even longer than the how to peel a potato one

 

[Windigo]

CB’s cooking camp out, with rooms and decent beds and en-suite bathrooms for those of use who require facilities, what’s that? Everyone then
I imagine the wine would get opened and after the discussion on how to peel a potato entered it’s second hour we’d end up having to order takeaway

If it was held in the UK I would maybe be able to attend, the US would not be possible due to my blood clotting condition. It's a lovely idea though!

 

[Windigo]

When friends are over I usually bake or make sweets,

Last year I made these apple & banana beignets for New Year's, and a Key Lime pie when a friend came over.

I also often make Gado gado, an Indonesian vegetarian dish that's easy to serve to lots of people

Or I bake lasagna, of course. It's a labor of love!

My rules for serving multiple people are:
- It has to be very moorish
- It's preferably easy to prepare and easy to make a lot of
- I can prepare parts of it the day before
- It can easily be upgraded to serve it for even more people (like adding an extra egg to Gado Gado , or Garlic bread to lasagne)

 

[JAS_OH1]

If it was held in the UK I would maybe be able to attend, the US would not be possible due to my blood clotting condition. It's a lovely idea though!

I'd rather meet across the pond or almost anywhere other than the US given our current political state of affairs. Italy in particular might be nice though.