What would go nicely in a hole in a new potato?

[Scootergrrrl]

I've found a nice idea for canapes in Simon Hopkinson's new book - new potatoes with a hole cut in with a melon baller and filled with... well, he fills his with caviar but I think that might be a bit much for a Hallowe'en party! Any suggestions for the hole?

something cheesy or garlicy. Mmmm. Or salsa and sour cream.

soft cheese - maybe a garlic one?

bacon and brie?

Salmon and sour cream

Cheese and pickle

Sausage

What, a sausage poking out of the hole moondog?

Thinking more spicy chorizo type stuff chopped up.

See, now I have this idea of two new potatoes next to each with a sausage sticking out of one of them (slaps own hand...)

He he he . Arrange them on the plate like that.
It reminds me of the other night when I was a tiny bit tipsy at a friends 30th. I was using scotch eggs and cocktial sausages to create certain things. I ended up holding them to my crutch and my friends were taking pics.

sour cream and chive

cheese and spring onion

Garlic and herb philly with crushed cripy bacon sprinkled on top.

A big knob........................................................................of galic butter

But ignore me, I have an arse the size of the aswan dam!

I'd much rather talk to someone with a big bottom and an appreciation of garlic butter...!

sorry but i'm still stuck on how you get a melon baller to make a hole in a potato that isn't the biggest potato you have ever seen..? New pots are small, right?

If it's for Hallowe'en you could mix up some soft cheese and then put a ring of coloured veg or sliced olive on top so it looks like an eye?

newlife - my melon baller is much smaller than an average new potato. If you used really tiny salad-sized potatoes then it would be a problem.

are new potatoes really in season in October?

I' put in cheese and bacon and spring onions

Deffo go with the smoked salmon and sour cream idea- yum!

a stick to make a handy mallet for biffing pushy trick-or treaters on the head.

Ok, so we're talking small hole. Right, well I think you should do some kind of japanese style arty thing with the hole and carve some salmon into a,um, fanged ghoul. That should do the job.

Otherwise, I'd try and spiral some parma ham and cream cheese into the hole like a roulade. You could use tomato salsa and name them Bobbit potatoes. Or Frankenstein's nuts.

I'm liking the mallet idea, you never know your luck, CV might drop in...