Christening brunch for 30. What to serve...ermm this Sunday

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....not very organised. Service is at 9.30am so need to be able to prepare night before or b4 9am. Want to serve at least one or two hot things. It is at our house and will be a bit of a squeeze so needs to be able to be eaten standing up really. Buffet??

Help, should have planned this before but Xmas and a family of flu got in the way.

Simple but effective??

Night before Cook sausages, cool, wrap in croissant dough (avail from all good supermarkets !) in shape of croissant. Bake in oven as per dough instructions on return from Church
Night before hard boil eggs, cut in half, remove egg yolk and mix with shredded smoked salmon and soured cream. Pile stuffing back into eggs. Serve on day with freshly milled black pepper and freshly chopped herbs
banana/other fruit muffins ?
Smoked salmon on brown bread
mini pastries from supermarket bakery
Kedgeree (beware of rice and reheating though)

Will check back later if I have any other ideas

oooh love the croissants idea - will do that and the eggs, sound yummy. cool thanks

Do you have a slow cooker? could do a big casserole or a chilli in there. Serve with rice/pasta rather than baked potatos, as easier to eat standing up.

i would be easy on yourself and just do a big brunch platter:
croissants
brown bread (soda bread)
smoked salmon (with lemon wedges)
ham
cheese
mini sausages
some kind of potato salad

ask beforehand for someone else to take care of tea and coffee (get a cafetiere/flask jug)

some bucks fizz too would be easier and would cut right down on the tea and coffee requests

assume everyone will be back at yours for about 10.30-11? they won't be expecting too much so don't put too much pressure on yourself!

how about cooking a gammon and a roasting some beef the night before - have that cold sliced the following day - serve with dishes of hot potato and carrot gratin easily made the night before too then pop in the oven for 30 mins when you get back from the service, some crusty bread, cous - cous and pickles/mustard/chutneys....??

Slow cooker idea is great. Or even just big pans or caserole dish. I'd use them to make a big chilli and/or curry. (Quite often I just buy the jars of ready made curry sauce from the supermarket - mild chicken tikka always a favourite at ours - and then you only have to add chopped up chicken). Prepare it all the night before.
Just pop all the prepared ingredients (jars! )into the slow cooker before you go to the curch and leave to cook slowly. Then it's ready whenever you need it.
Same for chilli - get mince, kidney beans, chopped tomatoes, peppers, onions, mushrooms etc, whatever you like, packet of colemans chilli sauce mix - prepare everything the night before. Put into slow cooker first thing sunday morning. Will be lovely by the time you get back.

Big pan of rice and loads of crusty bread / naan bread. Everyone's happy!

yeah chilli idea is good. But think am going to go with sausages, smoked salmon, boiled eggs etc.. more breakfasty. MIL is bringing a fruit salad too. My mum is bringing a fruit cake.

My mum has just called to say my SIL has miscarried her baby. she was 18 weeks pregnant and baby died about a month ago. she is waiting in hospital now to have it induced. oh god. am just numb. what a horrible horrible thing poor girl. took her 5 years to get pregnant.

Christening brunch seems somewhat trivial now.

puts it all in perspective doesn't it.