29 to feed on 27th December

[bryonyelf]

I do this every year. Guests provide all drink, nibbles starters and desserts. I do mains.

We have had.

Roast dinners
Buffets
Curry
Jamie Oliver turkey and leek pie
Egg beans and chips (I kid you not!)

Any ideas for this year? Totally stuck and lacking completely in any inspiration.

Bbq! Get the blankets out and hope for.no rain.

That would be ok but we always BBQ. DH has his birthday BBQ in January plus we do the big BBQ at Easter (leg of lamb) and agin in the summer.

We do get asked back just in case you wonder. It is just we are central and it saves lots excessive travelling so we can all see each other.

Jacket potatoes, pots of chilli, cheese, beans, coleslaw, salad and nibbles like crisps and nuts.

Wow OP- feeding 29 people?

Fake Nandos?

Corn on the cobs, marinated chicken breasts, pitta pockets, salad, halloumi, burger buns, different sauces, spicy rice

Deffo chilli -
one meat
one veggie
rice
tortillas (the breads and the crisps!)
bowls of grated cheese
shredded lettuce
guacamole
soured cream
tomato salsa
Will feel like a feast but is pretty easy to do, as the chillis could be done in advance, or shoved into a couple of slowcookers.

Lasagna, salad, crusty bread.
Meatballs, falafel, cous cous, salad hummus, pitta bread
Big samosas, coconut rice, chutney, naan
Roasted meat, shredded. Add to a cos lettuce, nuts, parmesan, basil and a dressing
Meat/veg fajitas with loads of wraps, sour cream, salsa, chillis, rice, nachos
Beef, chicken, pork Chilli, rice, nachos
Beef skirt stew with horseradish dumplings

Pulls pork as suggested above

Or canapés and lots of drink

Everyone is stuffed by 27th. I'd go for option 2, every time.

Pulled

Homemade soup and pasty ploughmans.

Mexican or pulled pork and all the trimmings

What Lokibear said

I did a pulled shoulder of lamb with pomegranate for a large dinner party. we had it with couscous and roasted carrots with sumac. it went down very well.

we had humous, labneh, olives, pitta etc to start

Sausage sandwiches!

Buy a loads if different breads, and a load of different sausages.
Then do a vat of caramelised onions. Add sauces, coleslaw etc.

Tis my fallback for loads of people round as it's so easy, quite adaptable to veggie etc and everyone loves sausages.

I'd say Mexican as well or tex mex.

I must admit that, by the 27th, I am usually craving a curry.

Thanks everyone. Lots of ideas.