thai dinner party help needed!

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Hi, I am planning a Thai dinner for some friends and am struggling a little. I am planning to cook a Thai style beef salad for starter and a prawn and butternut squash red Thai curry with noodles or sticky rice for main. Any ideas on pud and also for some little nibbly things to have before hand with drinks - sort of the Thai equivalent of olives etc.

Many thanks in advance, oxo

oxocube, i am a dutch mumsnetter, and i can grin about your comments, but quietly i'm also slightly offended! surely, dutch food is not that much worse than english "cuisine" (bangers&mash, bubble&squeek, fish&chips, peas...)? i think the two are traditionally rather similar: meat and two veg (one being potatoes). "traditionally", i say, as IME dutch cuisine now is far from traditional (where do you live?????)
actually, holland has a large indonesian community (from when that used to be a colony), which i am also part of, and indonesian food, as indian in uk, now is part of dutch diet.
anyway, appologies accepted, and good luck with your dinner party! and btw you are right about the kroketten, bitterballen, and frikadellen: they are vile, dutch turkey twizzlers .

I sometimes do a delicious mango sorbet. Chop up two ripe mangoes. Make a cup of green tea and add a dessert spoon of sugar (depending on how ripe the mangoes are), allow to cool. Liquidise the mangoes, tea and the juice of half a lime. Pour into a bowl and freeze until slushy (about 1.5 to 2 hours). Liquidise again to break up ice crystals. Pour into serving bowl or individual containers and freeze.

Hi Honneybunny! I knew I shouldn't have posted about Dutch food - you Dutch get everywhere . I think you are probably right about similarities in Brit and Dutch food - the worst of both are equally horrid! I like Indonesian food but find it is quite difficult to eat authentic Indonesian here - a bit like trying to find authentic Indian food in U.K. We live in Hilversum by the way so ex-pat land! I do think the availability of ingredients and variety of foods has changed dramatically since we moved here almost 5 years ago: our local Albert Heijn stocks loads more stuff now although we do have to do Hocras (wholesalers) for some cuts of meat, such as leg of lamb and for fish which is pretty expensive here. Where are you from, Honneybunny? There are some nice Dutch foods btw, pancakes, lekkerbekje (sorry for spelling!) to name a few!
xx

Bran that sounds perfect - how many would that serve do you think? I am feeding 6

I would use that recipe for 4-6 people and serve it alongside something else like fruit salad or warm rice pudding (made with cardamon/lemongrass and coconut milk for an eastern feel). I find it easiest to freeze the sorbet in a flexible muffin mold so it's easy to turn out. If you freeze it in a rigid container then take it out at least 10 mins before you want to serve it, and if possible dip the serving spoon into hot water to make it a little easier.

thanks bran. This kind of pud sounds just what I'm looking for x