Finger Foods for grown ups

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are what i'm to tak to a party tomorrow night.....any suggestions please??

depends what type of party, dinner party, drinks party etc..

vol au vents? You can get great party dish things in iceland and M&S etc.. a tray sort of size full of finger foods, spring rolls, those little pasrty parcel things and stuff like that.

you cna just bung them in the oven

yes, go down to m and s - that's my suggestion! or make some crostini type things, not too complicated

sausages?
Grapes?
Smoked salmon wheels (brown bread with cream cheese and smoked salmon put on top, roll up length wasy and cut in from the short edge)

baby mozzarella and cherry tomato on skewers

parma ham wrapped around breadsticks

little bruschette, french bread slices baked in oven til toasty, blob of tapenade, some goats cheese, weeny slices of tomato, blob of pesto, mozzarella slice, basil, salmon, cream cheese, olives, parma ham, that sort of thing.

Do NOT buy ready made snacks.They are truly the grossest things in the world and scream 'I'm a big fat lazy fucker, me!!!!'

I'd rather a bag of crips than Iceland spring rolls or M&S 'crostini'.

you know, as it's christmas what about doiing little chopolatas wrapped in bacon and served with cranberry sauce, maybe thinned with chilli dipping sauce, for a sweet and hot dip? never made it, but it would be nice i think... bung them on a tray with loads of cocktail sticks for full 70sness. AND it's the work of five minutes, you could serve cooked and cold or do them at the party.

That would be nice Zealot.
You can't go wrong with a good sausage.

Soggy pastry dulls my heart.

Have you got a little bit of time?

Very, very, very easy to make....

Square of filo pastry, buttered on the inside.

Square of brie, blob of cranberry sauce in the middle of each one.

Wrap filo pastry round (like you would wrap a bottle of wine) and pinch around the "neck" to seal.

Cook in the oven until golden brown.

Delicious.

Best eaten as soon as they are cooked, so cook them and wrap them in tinfoil to take them to the party.

Or, potato wedges, sprinkled with paprika and baked in the oven - serve with a sour cream dip.

oh, and do not buy the swanky M&S sausage rolls that are all 'no msg, no colouring, no hydro fats'. No flavour either. tis aitch, moony. must change back, it's getting a bit close to christmas for actual zealotry.

(i think that sausage idea would go in about five minutes if i know my party food...)

Gah,cannot keep up with name changes.

I was violently sick down my sleeve the other day while driving my children to a riding lesson as a direct result of surfeit of ready made snacks at a party.

Car was veering all over the road as I heaved and spewed. Dd offered to call an ambulance.

was it the party snax or the dawning realisation that you'd turned into a bourgeois peeg, moony? [riding lesson] [conservatory]

partyfood on the bbc

Hmmm, probably both.
I was sooo ill that as I pulled up I relaised I would die if I stayed,so I stumbled across the farmyard holding my damp and stinking sleeve (with vomit pooled in the elbow) to my chest,thrust the money at the gormless teen asistant and croaked 'I can't stay,I'm really really ill'.

I then drove home like a lunatic, telling the bemused children that all the horses were sick and couldn't be ridden.

(Party wasn't that posh though. The laydee of the house invited me to an Anne Summers one the week after.)