food for an open house...

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Friend has asked for food to be brought for an open house, which means it will sit on a table for hours and need to feed lots of people...

Any ideas?

Anti pasti?
Pasta salad?
A whole roasted chicken or slow roasted leg of lamb?
Nice cake?
A Jamie Oliver type platter-he has loads of sharing platters

pizza bites?

rice salad?

quiche?

What sort of things do you enjoy making? I love making jellies so for me it would probably be prosseco and berry jellies whereas my bf signature dish is banoffe pie.