Ideas for easy hot snacks with garden drinks

[OrangeSunset]

Have some friends coming over tomorrow evening and would like to do a couple of very easy hot snacks for after dark when it gets a bit chillier.

Any ideas for something really quick and easy to serve hot, and eat in the dark with minimal/no cutlery?

Mugs of homemade soup and bacon butties?

Pizza, mini quiches

I'd say the freezer section at your local supermarket is your friend year. They all have a good selection of canapé style snacks that are easily cooked in the oven - battered prawns, mini quiches/pies etc.

Sausage baps
Or chicken and stuffing baps
Or big roasted mushroom baps
Hot sausage rolls

Do you have a slow-cooker and an extension cord? That would provide a wide array of options.

Slow cooker chilli would be great

Pizza - I buy ready made sour dough base, top passatta cheese ect 10ish min in oven really nice. Also maybe sausage rolls

Thanks, am thinking snacks rather than a meal.

Halloumi fries, if I can find them in a shop, that sort of thing.

I will try the freezer section - also trying not to buy too many things in plastic but maybe the freezer bags have a little less plastic than anything chilled/in trays.

Also maybe cheese straws, easy to do homemade.

@853ax where do you may ready-made sourdough base? Sounds good.

Nachos!

Loaded potato skins?
Nachos.
Halloumi and baba ganoush
Posh cheese on toast (rarebit?)
Cheese fondue.

All the cheese.

Baked Camembert with freshly baked (part cooked) bread; sausage rolls, freezer oven party food! Nachos

Chicken wings, nachos, posh hot dogs,satay skewers, mini baked new potatoes with sour cream and cheese in cocktail sticks, nigellas sticky cocktail sausages again with cocktail sticks! Mini meatballs, garlic butter mushrooms, Anything on a stick . Not hot but cherry tomato, basil and mozzarella on a stick drizzled with balsamic is amazing! Enjoy your evening whatever you go with

Puff pastry roll ups (I usually do a pizza filling with some mutti pizza sauce, cheese, olives etc). You can prep in advance and freeze the rolls, and slice when you need them. Super easy to make (about 15 mins to prep).

Sticky Sausages - Google the Nigella Lawson recipe. They’re delicious.

Have a look at the canapé range in your chosen supermarket as most are made to take the same amount of time in the oven so you can just wack them all in together. You don’t want to spend the whole evening running in and out of the kitchen! Unless you have something to keep them warm with the food will get cold pretty quick!

@OrangeSunset pizza bases I get are brand Sorrento however I'm in Ireland so not sure if they are available in UK also.

Baked spud shepherd pies