Buffet Food

[carelesschucca]

When you guys are out at a party and you hit the buffet what do you head for first?

I've offered to cook/bake stuff for a friend for New Year. But would love to know what sort of things people go for. I was thinking things like sausage rolls (done with streaky bacon wrapped inside) mini toad in the holes with gravy, scotch eggs and different pakoras. Could also do a potato soup with bacon through it.

But what do you guys like at a buffet?

[Dicky Ticker]

Stovies!

[carelesschucca]

Oh that's a meal in it's self. Question is what do you have in your stovies?

First post and I'm derailing my own thread :-)

[dizzyblonde]

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Since when did a buffet not contain egg mayo sarnies, sausages on sticks and pickled onions and pineapples on sticks?

:-k

I head for the cake trolley, to see how much I can get away with later ;)

[timwilky]

I avoid buffets. call in at the chippy on the way home. Best dos I have been to lately have simply laid on the bacon barms or a chiili

[andrewsmith]

Depends on how manys coming, I'd say

Scotch eggs
Pork pies or mini scotch pies in your case
plate pie
Pakoras
Onion bargies
Some other indian finger fare
Chinese finger fare
Sarnies
Fish of some description
Salad or if he's Glaswegian deep fried salad
Couple of pizzas
Couple of stone of nuts

oh and a curry

[The Idle Biker]

wtf is a stovie???

Personally I head for the Prawns in Tempura Batter cos I is classy.

[Balky001]

Cold meats are always popular in my house with mozzarella and sweet peppers/sundried toms in oil and stuffed chili peppers and decent bread.

Roasted chicken thighs (in hot sauce with honey and brown sugar). Toasted French bread sliced with asparagus and Spanish ham. Whole poached salmon and veggie kebabs. Potato skins.

Easy wins - pizza, baked potato, chilli cc/curry or a big vat of soup. Deep fried bits like prawns on toast, pakora, samosa, butterfly prawns, chicken

I'm hungry :)

[Spank86]

I try for one of everything.

Unless it looks overly vegetably

[Wideboy]

Those mine sausages! you can't go wrong with them.

I'll eat anything so not help really.

[ClunkintheUK]

Anything that is one bite is good. And nothing that requires a napkin afterwards to have clean hands.

[Fallout]

I hate all the pork pie type ****. Like TIB I like stuff made of actual meat rather than dog gristle. I would go for the sandwiches, pasta/rice thingies, meat products made of actual meat, indian things, salad, maybe cold pizza if the rest looked crap.

[Spank86]

I like dog gristle.

[stuR]

indian/chinese bits usually, the battered prawns are always a winner..

[Bibio]

space cake :-)

[squirrel_hunter]

Not exactly an answer to the question but it reminded me of a "Surprise Buffet" I was treated to at a works do last week. It wasn't a surprise that there was going to be a buffet, more of a surprise as to what I was eating. You see it was in a trendy wine bar type of establishment and we had the top floor all to ourselves with a disco and everything. And in the corner was a buffet. Or more to the point, in the darkened corner was a buffet.

You see they forgot to put any lights on for the food and once you had filled the your plate and made it back to a seat on the edge of the darkened dance floor you had no idea what you were about to eat.

For example there were these small pastry or pie type things that were on our plates. One of my colleagues swore blind that it was a pastry base with caramelised onion and cream cheese on top. Another that it was a festive mince pie. I had one of these things and agreed with both of their analysis.

So my only advice is regardless of what you select for the buffet offering, a little light will go a long way...

[Littlepeahead]

Shark, zebra, camel, snake, dolphin, goat, llama, frogs, kangaroo, snails, horse, crocodile and squirrel. They were the buffet nibbles we had in a pub recently. I didn't try the dolphin or snails, and I don't eat pork so for me sausage rolls would be a no no.

[Red Herring]

The last buffet I was at they had breaded garlic mushroom on sticks. My favorite so I had to find out where they got them. ASDA do them in their frozen section. Lob them in the oven for 20 minutes, turn them out into a bowl, and serve. Brilliant and guaranteed to mask the rubbish taste of whatever else is being served.....

[Red Herring]

Shark, zebra, camel, snake, dolphin, goat, llama, frogs, kangaroo, snails, horse, crocodile and squirrel. They were the buffet nibbles we had in a pub recently. I didn't try the dolphin or snails, and I don't eat pork so for me sausage rolls would be a no no.

Sounds like a bushtucker trial.......:smt087