Give me your favourite picky plate foods!!

[bookishblondie]

I fancy doing a spread Saturday afternoon so tell me what you love when you have picky plates / picky tea!

Because they’re being snobby.

Bread
Cheese
Crisps
Mini sausage rolls
Mini pork pies
Pickle
Coleslaw
Ham.

Oh @ParrotPirouette chorizo in cider is the most simple thing I could ever cook and the thing most people request the recipe for!
I eyeball it with by quickly frying a pack of mini chorizo from Sainsburys (just a few minutes), adding enough cider to just cover and a bay leaf. I cook it until the sauce is thick (about 20-30 minutes)

A quick Google will get you several recipes that are all just as simple but more official. If I'm honest, we've skipped the bay leaf because it's been raining and can't tell the difference. It's a very forgiving recipe so the amount of cider doesn't really need to be exact.

Padron peppers with salt
Manchego cheese & membrillo
Olives
Humous / bean dips
Fennel tarali biscuits
Radishes

Do all the replies not give you a wee hint love?

I like to do various chicken bits - wings, goujons and scampi, chips and crudites with houmous. But it's a sit round the table and pick from the middle kind of meal rather than a 'buffay'.

Thank you for the thread, whatever the correct term is, was going to post something similar next week fora gathering.

It's just an assortment of things you like to eat that don't take much prep

Well, I might not find the term 'picky tea' appealing, but some of the suggestions for what might be eaten at such a tea sound so good I'm changing my mind. I'm going to use the old fashioned word for it, though - it's a simple 'buffet'

Mine usually consist of
boiled egg
sausage rolls
mini chicken poppers
ham
coleslaw
beetroot
lettuce
sweetcorn
pasta
potato salad
baguette
prawns
we also did some sweet chilli skewers and minted lamb kebabs (cooked on my ninja grill fire) as they were going out of date

we usually have pork pies too but I don’t like them, so they don’t touch my plate.

I made last week for family meal
Chinese chicken drumsticks
Potato salad
Savoury rice
Pasta salad with pesto tomato and mozzarella
Olives
Serve with salad

Oooh and you can't beat roasted camembert, bread cornichons and veggie crudites

The little peppers stuffed with soft cheese

This is our Christmas day lunch, because we don't have dinner till the evening. In fact its also any lunch when we have visitors. My Mum used to love it when she was young enough to come to ours - the more people you have, the more different things you can get in without them getting too old in the fridge.

Id love pretty much any of the spreads suggested above, especially the ones with stuff I wouldn't have thought of or don't even know what they are - but my addition would be brown toast and pate - meat pate, or if we're being really festive, smoked mackerel pate 😋😋

Really? Posters getting their knickers in a twist about the term picky tea? Good grief! Is charcuterie board more acceptable?

Here’s my offering of a PICKY TEA:
Pork pie
Nice ham
Boiled eggs
Crunchy cheddar
Pickled onions
Sundried tomatoes
Part baked rolls

Baked camembert
Baguette cut in rounds
Port salut
Gorgonzola or roquefort
Proper salted butter
Pate of some sort
Olives
Mediterranean meats, e.g. parma ham, chorizo slices, salami

We eschew veg on the rare occasions it happens. Maybe some peppers in olive oil, but mostly not.

We call it Boxing Day Tea :)
Have it most Sunday evenings.
Cold ham, pickles, cheese, scotch egg, pork pie, potato, bean & green salads.
Actual Boxing Day Tea is both bigger & grander. We've never eaten 'picky tea'

'Scraps' in our house by DS! "Mmmm... I love having scraps..." said with a happy sigh.

Olives
Cornichons
A good cheddar or Brie, or both
Quavers
Crunchy grapes (green or black)
Almonds
Granny Smith apple + pot of peanut butter
Some sliced roast beef or ham, blob of mustard
Proper bread, brown and buttered

Those are usually the sort of things we have in.
If it was a planned 'picky tea' I'd buy dolmades, dips, one of those hot cheddar bakes in the small clay dishes, prawn cocktail, etc.

Ooh I love a picky tea.
picky picky picky tea.
what else would you call it? Meze? Tapas? Or the absolutely awfu grazing board.
nah, it’s a picky tea.
or as OP said, a picky plate. Yum!

"Picky tea" makes my skin crawl

Called a Quinceys in our house. When DH and I first dated there was a local restaurant that did a shared starter a large plate of awesomeness. Potato wedges, wings, mozzarella sticks, goujons with garlic and chilli dips etc. Fine dining it was not but boy did it hit the spot.

At my parents it was dad's going to the butchers 😂 as mum would use all the ends in the freezer up before he went to the Farm Shop on his twice yearly half a cow mission.

I too don't get the OTT hate for 'picky' anything! 🙄

This my favourite way to eat. I'm currently 2/3 into pregnancy so (and can't sleep!) so going to indulge my food fantasies here....

Crusty bread with proper butter
Crackers
Cheeses (must include: a runny Brie, a fiesty cheddar, gorgonzola, something smoked, maybe a Comte)
Soft-fried pear slices with honey (to go with my gorgonzola)
Boursin
Baked Camembert (with white wine, garlic, thyme etc)
Expensive smoked salmon
Charcuterie (love a bresaola, rosemary ham and a red wine and fennel salami)
Chorizo cooked in red wine, honey and fennel seeds
Chicken liver pate
Smoked salmon pate
Good Moroccan houmous
Cornichons
Olives
Jarred artichokes
Sun-dried tomatoes
Jar roasted peppers
Posh crisps (rosemary & thyme Pipers)
Couple of chutneys
Good pork pie
Runny Scotch egg
Homemade sausage rolls (with onion and sage whizzed in the mix)
Cous cous salad with mint, pomegrante and feta

And a lovely wine.

Husband has basically the above list as inspiration ready for a post-birth treat

Garlic bread, chicken wings, cheese straws, smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis, crispy breaded mushrooms, mini quiches with different fillings, prawns with aioli or chilli dip.

Stuffed cherry peppers and mini feta parcels

Tbf OP said picky tea not picky bits which always makes me think of picking at scabs. 🤮 We call it bits and bolts. Dh gets things mixed up in English and this one stuck!

Picky tea. AKA. Ploughman’s lunch.
😉😁😁.