Your ideal buffet

[hopefully2019]

Hi guys,

I need some inspiration. If you could choose your favourite 3 things you like to see on a buffet what would it be ?

I'm planning my baby shower party for around 40 people. It's in the day time

Wanting some ideas!!! I've looked online but I'm curious what different individual people like to see at a buffet. Thanks guys xxx

[RippleEffects]

Just to be different, having cleared up messy splattered everywhere pasta bolognese and drink spilt by dyspraxic DS earlier.... Plates that if paper are stiff enough to hold the food, cutlery located obviously for stuff that needs cutlery, if it's casual eat on laps somewhere to put a drink down by each seat or plate clips for glasses or sports type bottles - things less likely to spill.

[DogHasEatenTheSqueaker]

Smoked salmon (side of)

Tiger bread (loaf of)

Mayo (jar of)

BIG PLATE

[Mixingitall]

Greek salad
Quiche
Hummous
Pitta toasted and quartered for dipping
Crisps
Cheese board and grapes
Hams
Olives
Sliced fresh bread
Butter

Caters for all and you don’t need to make sandwiches.

[InDubiousBattle]

Sundried tomato tapenade, home made foccacia, cold meats and cheese.

[Coffeeandchocolate9]

Pleeeaaassseee something thats not beige! gluten free, and dieting people will thank you!

Cucumber/celery/pepper sticks and dips
Roast potatoes or jacket new potatoes (covered in olive oil and seasoned well)
Sliced cold meats
Cheese board
Celery stuffed with cream cheese
Olives

[OhTheRoses]

cherrypavlova got there first. With a platter of salami and a salad of mozzarella pearls, cherry toms, black olives, basil leaves, a smidge of chilli flakes and garlic oil.

[ExpletiveDelighted]

I agree that pasta should only ever be served hot, I can't bear pasta salad. Rice salad not much better. I love tabbouleh though.

[EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard]

Looking forward to reading this thread. I always make tabbouleh, honey mustard pasta & would do a lovely red cabbage, red onion, apple, carrot & pineapple salad that sil made recently

As per buckeejit I like a Greek Salad too and decent potato salad.

Along with those sides I like a piece of poached salmon, homemade quiche or marinated chicken strips.

Mini desserts always look good on a buffet table too. Baked cheesecake, chocolate eclairs, tiny lemon meringue pies and macarons. That kind of thing.

[CherryPavlova]

A side of salmon, a gammon and an onion tart. Then the usual salads, bread and buttered new potatoes.

[Mrsmememe]

Cheese and pineapple on sticks made into a hedgehog.
Cold mini pizzas
Potato salad.

There’s no compromise on the hedgehog by the way, if you’re gonna do it, do it properly.

[AgeLikeWine]

Lots of sandwiches in really good bread.
Lots of tasty, fresh, colourful, herby, middle-eastern type salads.
Tasty lean protein options, eg spicy marinaded chicken skewers.
Cheeseboard
Freshly made, warm Spanish tortilla, still slightly soft in the middle.
Really good ice cream for pud.

No cold pastry.

[Doilooklikeatourist]

Nice sandwiches in real bread ( not horrid sliced processed )
Sausage rolls
Huge salad bowl ( lettuce , cucumber , tomatoes , olives , feta , etc )
No no no no no to pasta salad

Pasta is only ever eaten hot

[Jamhandprints]

Olives, French bread (already buttered unless it's a sit down at a table meal) couscous or pasta salad.

[Oly4]

Yummy sandwiches
Chicken skewers
Crudités

[ChilliMayo]

It's terribly 70s but I love love love to see vol au vents - chicken, tuna and prawn.
And proper Scotch eggs, not those supermarket ones with hard as bullet eggs.

[Mum2jenny]

Chicken skewers, baby jacket potatoes with sour cream filling, and a nice tomato/ mozzarella salad with basil leaves

[glasshalfsomething]

Buffalo mozzarella and tomato
Crusty bread
Crisps

[buckeejit]

And nachos & dips if possible

[buckeejit]

Looking forward to reading this thread. I always make tabbouleh, honey mustard pasta & would do a lovely red cabbage, red onion, apple, carrot & pineapple salad that sil made recently

[georgialondon]

Lots of cheese!

[Witchofzog]

Def dips, crudites, salad olives n quiche. Maybe chicken legs. Coleslaw n potato salad too

[ExpletiveDelighted]

Ooh yes to hummus, tzatsiki etc and flatbreads/crudites to dip.

[ExpletiveDelighted]

Crackers and cheese
Greek salad
Crisps

No pastry unless its hot.

[Grinchly]

Olives
Salad chopped up small
Roasted red and yellow peppers
Hummus / tatziki and pita bread with crudités for dipping
Gazpacho
Chicken skewers

Avoid the beige