70s dinner party menu

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Just for four people.

I'm thinking prawn cocktail for starter.

Stuck on a main. Was coq au vin a 70s dish?

Dessert- trifle ( I hatethe stuff but others like it) or ? I'm not much of a baker but black forest gateau maybe.

Starter: Prawn cocktail/paté and toast/ slice of honeydew melon with a maraschino cherry attached to the top by a cocktail stick.
Main: rump or sirloin or T-bone steak with chips, half a tomato, sliced mushrooms and garden peas/ coc-au-vin/ Boeuf bourguinon
Pudding: sherry trifle/ Black Forest gateau/ lemon meringue tart.
Nibbles: twiglets, cheese footballs, salted peanuts, 'ordinary' crisps
Wine: French or German. Mateus Rose, Liebfraumilch (Black Tower), Piesporter, sweet sherry, white or red port.
After Eight mints.

Aldi do good Black Fuorest gateaux

Baked Alaska was a 'spectacular' pudding, if you can be bothered with the faffing about.

Have you got (beg or borrow) a Fondue set?

Vienetta.

Or pink blamange if you wish to be really 70s exotic.

Some great ideas thanks.

I draw the line at Liebfraumilch and Mateus Rose however . I like nice wine .

Before I opened the thread I was going to say prawn cocktail and black forest gateau!
Mains - yes to beef bourguinon or stroganoff or salmon en croute but yes coq au vin too.
Has to be Twiglets and a bottle of Blue Nun with Matchmaker mint sticks.

Yes coq au vin was 70s. Also Duck a L'Orange and steak and chips though the latter doesn't really shout 70s.
The first time I ever went to a restaurant with a boyfriend was when I was 18 in 1976 and we had prawn cocktail, followed by steak and chips and a bottle of Mateus Rose.

It has to be prawn cocktail, steak and fat chips with half a tomato, half a flat mushroom and peas. Followed by Black Forest gateau

Devilled eggs, quiche, Tiramisu.

Crepes Suzette for dessert. Pancakes in an orange liqueur! Easy.

It doesn’t have to be BFG for every 1970s themed dinner!

Love all these foods, except devilled eggs!

Crepes suzette.

Apero, Harvey Wallbanger or Negroni with cottage cheese dip & crisps.

Starter, egg mayonnaise or chicken liver pâté, or a chilled soup

Main, Boeuf bourguignon, or rack of lamb with paper frills and garden peas in halved tomatoes.

Pudding, Lemon tart or crepe Suzette or Veanetta (sp?)

melon and cheese cubes on sticks
Glass of orange juice as a starter
Steak diane

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Or gammon and pineapple. Main and dessert on the same plate at the same time. Saves on time and washing up.

These look lovely if not ;-)

Some great ideas - thanks!

But what the heck is that final image? Fish fingers with pineapple ? ha ha

Prawn cocktail
Chicken Kiev
Black Forest Gateaux
Chardonnay wine

My grandma gave me one of her old cookbooks once. It had a recipe (with pics!) for a turkey crown with mandarin segments encased in ASPIC!

My mum used to make a layered concoction of shop bought chocolate cake laced with alcohol, with whipped cream and tinned cherries, garnished with grated chocolate and maraschino cherries.
A real showstopping desert for you !

Lasagne with salad for main.