Food ideas for auutmn party for 15-20!

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Expecting 15-22 people for evening/night party at the turn of autumn to winter. Will make use of BBQ and patio + all (mid size) rooms downstairs!

50% veggies. 50% omnivores and no allergies.

need ideas for -

1. A few scalable mains for an autumn night that people can help themselves to from dining table
2. Starters and nibbles (don’t mind shop bought)
3. What to use the BBQ for (guessing veggie sausages and burgers and meat ones on a different grill)
4. Creative ideas for drinks!

We did more than once and had:
Big dishes of beef stew and dumplings so people can help themselves.
Lasagne
Shepherds pie
Chicken bacon leek pie
Curries
Whole salmon
All can be served with mash,pasta,rice
Or jackets
Dishes of enchiladas

Jacket potato buffet. Fillers of France,mince,tuna mayo.egg mayo.cheese.deli chicken.salad.

Veggie skewers
Veggie curries
Veggie rice casserole
Veggie stews
Veggie lasagne
Ratouille
Risotto

Corn on cob
Pizzas
Roasted veg
Big salads
Warm bread

Bananas stuffed with choc on bbq
Lemon mirangue pie
Bowl of Eton mess
Slow cooker self saying pud
Sticky toffee pudding
Apple pie and custard
Evespudding
Pavlova
Fruit skewers

Bowls of crisps
Doritos and dips
Mini sausages
Warm sausage rolls
Bruschwtta with Tom garlic salad on
Puff pastry in Hartley size by using muffin tin filled with feta pine nuts red onion salami peppers tomatoes rtf
Crusless quiche made in muffin tins
Pastry pinwheel
Warm shots of soup
Coleslaw
Potato salad
Mini Yorkshire with salmon and cream cheese
Cheese and pineapple

Booze
J20
Schleor
Jugs of orange and lemonade
Apple juice
Ribena
Warm punch
Hot chocolate and mallows

Obvs not at same time! Just family seen to congregate more in autumn months.

Jacket potatoes, Autumn slaw, roast butternut salad, smoky bean salad, bangers (on the bbq), crusty rolls and chestnut and mushroom sausage rolls.

For drinks, I’d do mulled cider, mulled apple juice, eggnog, blackberry or damson gin….

Nibbles: root vegetable crisps, hickory smoked nuts and baked breaded mushrooms.

For pudding: small squares of sticky ginger cake, chocolate and fig brownies with spiced creme fraiche and toffee apple flapjacks.

Very difficult to suggest without knowing your budget.
However, I would make a big pot (or two) of either pumpkin and ginger or leek and potato soup - use Hokkaido pumpkins as they do not need to be peeled, veg. stock, everyone catered for.
I am not a big fan of barbecues, but you could do beef short ribs in a sticky sauce, cook in the oven and finish off on the flames. Vegetable kebabs. Sides of coleslaw and other salads.
Definitely second the idea of brownies of some kind or possibly barbecued pineapple (marinated in a lemon grass syrup) with cream or ice-cream.

Oh thanks for clarifying that! I had a heart attack looking at your awesome list and thought you’d done that in one go!

Brilliant thanks so much!!! These are fab ideas to pick from! I suppose one consideration is people eating whilst standing around rather than sitting down with plate knife and fork on table ……

Big pot of Lancashire hot pot.
Big cheese and onion pie.

Roasted veg (on BBQ)
Braised red cabbage, with apple .
Pickled beetroot.
Crusty bread.

Sticky toffee pudding and ice cream.

Whisky sours.
Apple cider
Blackberry or sloe gin

I saw a recipe for winter pimms which I thought would be good. I think chilli is nice easy one (Jamie does a nice one) and easy to do veggie one, then choice of nachos, rice or jacket potato. Quite easy to eat with just a fork too. Brownies would work really well, blackforest brownies are nice and a bit different and more autumnal I think (recipe online I think but just add frozen cherries and fig sherry to any brownie recipe). My sister did a posh slow cooker hot choc last autumn and then some people kind of had that for dessert (add cream, flake etc) If using the bbq I would keep it simple and do various burgers, beef, pork, veggie, chicken etc and various toppings. I think doing a couple of things well works best. Good luck 😊

When looking for something else, came across this (or something similar). Ie. Chilli in the middle with jacket potato, dips, salads etc around the edge.

baked potato dinner board

Oh god ha.you poor thing.
don’t worry never ever would this happen!
taken 20 years for that back catologue 😊

We are doing something similar and I am making Squash Mac n Cheese. Also sausages on the fire pit. I know you are asking about food, but can I ask if you are planning any games.

We had forty guests (incl. c. 15 kids) last weekend for an autumnal bbq. We had Bratwurst, veggie and vegan Bratwurst, pork shoulder steaks, halloumi steaks. Salads - couscous salad , lentil salad, tomato mozarella, autumnal lambs lettuce salad) and baguette.
Then we had a huge carrot cake, an apple cake, plum crumble, apple crumble and berry crumble and vanilla ice cream.
We had red and white wine, Aperol Spritz and Prosecco, Bier and Alcohol-free beer, water.
It worked really well and we didn’t have loads of leftovers.

Pizza oven