help dinner party for 8......

[oldbadger]

Hi i am cooking a dinner party for 8 would like to do beef bourgounion for mains but don't know what to do for starter and pud has anybody got any ideas?
thx

what are you leaning towards and what do your guests like?

Are they full on meat eaters or poncy delicate vegetable eating types? And I mean poncy in a very lovely way of course. I like a bit of ponce with my dinner parties.

For pud I would do something you can make in advance. Last time we had that many people round I made a
semi freddo. It went down quite well and I made it a week before so no panicing on the day!

For starters with that many people, I always try to think of something that's no effort (smoked salmon, antipasti) or make in advance (soup, individual tarts).

Cooking for that many is a bit of an effort so you want it to be as stress free as possible.