1980s retro dinner party - recipes wanted!

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I rarely ate out in the 1980s and suspect the fare I was served by mum at home thoughout the decade was more representative of the '70s! I'm having a retro 1980s dinner party & would love some inspriration. Another snag is - 2 of my guests don't eat meat - so fish main courses/starters would be fab please!

gMMON STEAK AND PINEAPLE
BLACK FOREST GATEAU
whoops
are they 70s?

Black Forest Gateaux

Ok Aitch.....
Angel Delight.

i was thinking butterscotch instant whip, myself.

Parma ham & melon balls for starters

Oh and rice salad thing in a ring mould.

Lemon Meringue Pie, Black Forest Gateau as already mentioned.

Prawn cocktail, melon with cherry, Fruit cocktail

Lasagne, Moussaka, cheesecake, coronation chicken

Le Piat D'or aftewr eight mints

Irish coffee

cheese and pineapple hedgehog?

or is that 70's...

I lurved Ice magic - can you still buy it? Does it still set rock hard? (oo-er!)

nice, hobgoblin.

i was thinking cchichkrn chausseur, from delia.

My mum used to buy those ready made sponge flan cases, then fill it with tinned fruit and jelly.
Was horrible

Aitch, I have ice magic in the cupboard - choc Mint flavour and Angel Delight!

Are you going to wear a jumpsuit with shoulder pads?

mine did her lemonmeringue pie in those. remember the lemon beads that you melted? lordy.
i loved it.

Those flans are like eating a moist face flannel.

Yep, moist face flannel, with halved grapes as grapes weren't seedless, and lime jelly.... Mmmmm. Am I making you nauseus hungry?

Ooh had forgotten Le Piat D'Or

Les Francais adore le Piat D'Or

not if you bakedthem!

We did 80s one last year and did prawn cocktail in wineglasses, lasagne and trifle. Jamie Oliver has a fab trifle recipe - lots of colured layers with hundreds and thousands on the top - looks v retro! and we did cheese and pineapple sticks on the foil hedgehog thing for nibbles with ritz crackers and primula cheese spread! (although strangely enough no one ate those...)
Also got everyone to give me photos of them in the 80s and stuck around the room. Backfired with my younger guests tho who brought baby photos... boy did we feel old..
hope you have fun!

Is Ferrero Rocher 90s?

that soundsGREAT, bubble.

Have plundered my recipe books, and from a Sainsburys cookbook dated 1985, I suggest for
starters:
pate, terrine, avocado pears stuffed with prawn cocktail
mains:
chicken kiev, exotic fish pie, chilli con carne, crispy duck (boiled and hung up to dry in your airing cupboard!), pork tenderloin, anything wrapped in puff pastry
pudding;
anything with kiwi fruit, baked alaska

or (my favourite) the entire meal cooked in a microwave

Isn't Angel Delight 70's? I am a 66 babe and remember eating Angel Delight as a kid. Parma ham, mozzarella, parmesan and all things foreign definitely came to a head in the 80's I think

Am puzzled by baking ready baked flan cases - are we talking the pastry or the sponge ones?

Babycham is 70s isn't it, sadly?

I remember my parents buying their first microwave and me cooking a chicken in a 'browning bag' in it. Went with the microwaved carrots and peas!! Very new age

Agree with oxoxube- loads of suggestins on this thread are from the seventies

i'm talking sponge.