Recommend me a starter...

[rich p]

Get a pack of puff pastry and make some parcels with various fillings. Perhaps cheese and pine nuts, chorizo and cheese, Parma ham and tomato for example. You are only limited by your imagination. Put different slits in the pastry for the different fillings so you know which are which after cooking. They take 15 mins in the oven and look very professional with a bit of salad and balsamic.

I like it. What do you think about using filo?

 

[slowmotion]

Definitely Pampas Grass in that front garden.

Are you sure? I can't see the car keys.

 

[TVC]

Someone throw this man a rope, it needs to be about 40 years long...



Phew you found the end of the rope....good to have you back....

Don't diss the vol au vent. I have catered many family parties and those little puff pastry baskets are the first to go. Don't pretend you don't go for the vols when the finger food comes round.

 

[Salty seadog]

Don't diss the vol au vent. I have catered many family parties and those little puff pastry baskets are the first to go. Don't pretend you don't go for the vols when the finger food comes round.

Oh no, I'm not dissing the grey parcels and will happily stuff them down my screecher, it's just that wow factor was a requirement and that the first bite is with the eye.
Shape up TVC....you're not still i'll with dulled senses are you?

 

[User482]

I like it. What do you think about using filo?

Most people have an electronic diary these days.

 

[slowmotion]

I reckon @MossCommuter's gazpacho looks like a winner. You can make it well in advance. Something cold and spicy is great for whetting the appetite.

It doesn't have to be salt and vinegar crisps....

 

[tyred]

Although I think fluorescent lights have had their day. Upgrade to LEDs.

 

[RWright]

Spaghetti ! You can cook the sauce tonight...it is better after it sits overnight anyway. It is what I am having tomorrow and not Chef Boyardee this time either!

 

[TVC]

Although I think fluorescent lights have had their day. Upgrade to LEDs.

If you want a really posh starter

 

[TheDoctor]

Vichyssoise?
Saute some leeks, add potato and chicken stock, cook, blend, chill, add cream.

 

[slowmotion]

It's uncanny.
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[Tail End Charlie]

I like it. What do you think about using filo?

I'd use puff pastry, filo could be used but it ends up a bit greasy for my liking with the oil or butter you have to use and puff is easier to work with.

 

[Aperitif]

Delia is your friend, Rich - figs with gorgonzola and a drop of sauce- yumtus. I'll look.
Here.

 

[Profpointy]

One of the feckers won't eat seafood...
...or goat's cheese, which are both on my top ten ingredients.

well they can have the alternative starter of carrots in a water sauce, whilst the rest enjoy the good stuff

 

[Dayvo]

If you want a really posh starter

I wouldn't eat what he had: looks like it gave him wind.