Can you suggest a 1970's main course

[Wickeddevil]

To go with prawn cocktail and Black Forest roulade?

Thank you

Music yes - though it is quite possible we might have one or too albums already I want the Jackie love songs in your link though full leather. I tried buying napkins today, but everything was too um tasteful.

Hadn't considered gammon and pineapple and can't believe I forgot about babycham (whoops spellchecker wants that to be baby ham, hope it's naice). I actually used to like babycham.

Disaster though. I don't have a hostess trolley. Maybe I should put the veg on now though to make sure it's properly cooked for Friday?

Surely things in baskets were 1980's? And weren't they just things you had in pubs, not when eating at home?

I may just have the entire Jackie collection, Wickeddevil.

Also v. brilliant.

I see Amazon have heard us talking and there is now a copy of the CD at a much more reasonable £6.99

Not sure that the black forest roulade is very seventies. I think it would more likely to have been shop bought black forest gateau.
If someone did make their own they would probably have used tinned cherry pie filling. Ugh.

Old gimmer here!!

Notgood. Things in baskets might have still been around in the eighties but they are definitely seventies (possibly even late sixties)!

i actually do have a hostess trolley...fake mahoghany, all dishes present and correct. My mother bought it for me from the Electric SHop.

It is in the loft cupboard mind you.

And I'd go with Kiev or Strognoff for the main course. Or Scampi, but not with the current starter.

You all need this fantastic recipe book. Everything we make from it is gorgeous.

www.amazon.co.uk/Prawn-Cocktail-Years-Lindsey-Bareham/dp/0718149807/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393400835&sr=1-1&keywords=prawn+cocktail+years

I'm loving the sound of these - that's my meal planning sorted for next week!

Admiral tea my uncle had never cooked a thing until about 5 years ago when he was in his 60s and found himself suddenly living alone.

He invited DH and I to dinner after a couple of months. We had avocado vinaigrette served in proper glass avocado dishes - he had obviously been clearing out the cupboards -followed by Boeuf Bourgignon, followed by Vienetta.

We were that he had got to grips with cooking so well, but that his ideas of what o cook for dinner seemed to be in such a time warp!

A Snowball is Advocaat & Lemonade.

A dash of lime juice if you want to be posh.

What about avocado and prawn? Half an avocado topped with the prawn cocktail...tres chic
And baked alaska for pudding ...
Main course I thought Chicken a la king but probably not with your starter/main courses ...

and what about buttered sweetcorn cobs held on those twiddly little forks that are shaped like errrrrm.. sweetcorn cobs and you end up dropping the cob and splashing yourself with butter as they're not man enough for the job

*Not sure that the black forest roulade is very seventies. I think it would more likely to have been shop bought black forest gateau.
If someone did make their own they would probably have used tinned cherry pie filling. *

We used to make an amazing black forest gateau, with tinned black cherries (but not cherry pie filling). The recipe said it was I think 650 calories a slice, so we used to call it 'kilo cake' for those who had big slices. I still have the recipe but don't often make it as we're unsociable and never have dinner parties.

Sid thank you. I love Simon Hopkinson so that book looks like a winner.

Am veering towards duck a lorange cos I've not done it before.

for pud you deffo need arctic roll on offer.

As someone who got married in the 70s, I still have and occasionally use recipes from recipe books I bought then: my spag bol, lasagne, goulash are all from then. I bought a great part series called "Perfect Cooking" which was my go to for years. We definitely drank Mateus Rose, I remember, but I think by then I had stopped drinking Babycham.

and drink out of free 'petrol' glasses - the height of sophistication!

Half a grapefruit with a glace cherry in the middle
Lemon sole with parsley potatoes and fresh peas with mint
Coffee and walnut mousse

My Mum's dinner party piece de resistance in the late 70s was chicken stuffed wih Camembert. Actually it was bloody delicious.

Until I was about 17, I thought the only starter choices were 'soup', a quarter of a melon with a glace cherry, or a tiny glass of grapefruit juice on a doilie.

Then I went to uni and met a boy who ate avocados with vinaigrette and was educated into the ways of The South.

Coffee and walnut mousse sounds gorgeous.

You will also need to get some Maraschino cherries - especially if you're drinking Southern Comfort with lemonade.

Main courses
Fondue
Goulash
Bourgignon
Steak and chips
Gammon and pineapple
Trout with almonds
Scampi mornay - but to be authentic should be monkfish, although these days real scampi is probably cheaper
Steak Diane
Duck a l'orange, with cherries - think of the Fawlty towers episode
Chicken marengo
Chicken kiev

Please remember to garnish the plates with
A sprig of parsley
Half a tomato
A tablespoon of buller-like frozen peas

Starters
Paté with melba toast
Half a grapefruit with a cherry - also very sophisticated if the grapefruit is sprinkled with sugar and grilled
Tinned grapefruit segments in one of those little stainless steel bowls

Desserts
Black forest gateau
Arctic roll
Crepes suzette
Peach melba
American-style cheesecakes were starting to be popular

Can still remember going to Tetley's Cavalier steak bars when in late teens/early twenties. They were a bit cheaper than the Berni Inns - and didn't have duck on the menu.

DH and I could have an aperitif - Dry martini and soda, Dubonnet with or without lemonade etc,
starter, main course and dessert with a bottle of blue nun, black tower etc and have change out of a tenner.

Vinho verde also became popular about this time, too.

Liqueur coffees were popular, too
Whisky
Tia Maria - Kahlua had yet to appear
Drambuie
Brandy

Also there was a range of clear syrupy chocolate liqueurs - they were Dutch from memory. Chocolate mint, orange and hazlenut ones.

Matteus rose is still available from off licences.
We have a bottle which looks like its been passed around various parties for 10 years.