AIBU to ask for your help with dinner menu

[Foodangst22]

I have some friends coming around for dinner in a couple of weeks and struggling to know what to cook! Was thinking of making creamy tarragon chicken but need to serve an additional main so people have a choice. Can anyone help? It needs to be simple!!

I loathe tarragon so wouldn't eat it, why not roast chicken with a choice of sauces

2 mains is nuts!

Leg of lamb, dauphinois potatoes, string beans.

Or

Chicken basque, green salad

Would you really not eat it if someone cooked it for you unknowingly goose?

Huldra, I wish you were my friend. Your ideas are fab!!

OP, I have nothing better to add, so I'll just say I hope you have a great night

www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/pork-fillet-stroganoff

My mum made this for a family get together a few weeks ago, served with rice. It was fab

Thank you, looks good.

I'd never do 2 mains unless a vegetarian version - e.g. Lamb curry and veggie curry.

I cooked for 12 recently and funnily enough did as suggested up thread - leg of lamb, salsa verde, dauphinois, chantenay carrots and braised lettuce and peas.

Currys quite fun as you can do a Dahl and flatbreads to go with your main dish.

Chicken tray bakes with salad, potatoes etc always good.

A nice tagine and some fluffy couscous.

I rarely do starters - just olives and dips over drinks but for 12 would do two or 3 puds (generally someone will bring at least one) and a generous cheese board.

Starter: Melon and prosciutto, soo easy or lightly fried Halloumi with lime, garlic, parsley and olive oil (warm) dressing with good soda or rye,bread.

For 12 I'd keep,it really simple and,poach a whole,salmon, possibly with Delias grape and tarragon chicken salad on the side with lashings of buttery new potatoes and salad.

For pud I'd do a magnificent berry mille feuille dressed with spun sugar and extra cream plus really good vanilla ice cream, strawberries and cadbury's flake.

Remember it's not a restaurant. People will be grateful that you were kind enough to cook for them. 2 mains & 3 desserts is a lot of work. Don't get competitive / think you have to match that. Far better to be a relaxed host

I have genuinely never heard of serving two main courses before. Am baffled. You're not a restaurant. Guests eat what they are bloody given.

Exceptions being vegetarians,food allergies, and buffets!!

Apart from goose apparently!