What is your favouritest ever starter in the whole wide world?

[Picante]

Looking for inspiration!!

I love fig and stilton salad

Goats Cheese and Spinach with a balsamic reduction

i love starters

lol ggirl give me some more suggestions then!

Smoked salmon or gravadlax with brown bread and butter.

Or pate and toast (I love fois gras and walnut bread but that is a social faux pas nowadays)

Once I had an amazing celery and stilton soup in a posh London restaurant but would probably be hard to create with no recipe

Soup. I love soup! If it's really nice soup, of course.

And I love the selection of little bits and pieces that my favourite local Thai restaurant does as a starter. Yum.

Ooh I also had a caramalised onion and goats cheese puff pastry tart once - was awesome.

Sorry I am a big starter fan

Chicken livers that have just been cooked whole with some crispy pancetta, on a little salad of baby spinach dressed with balsamic vinegar.

They must be fresh, not frozen, chicken livers.

Soup

Pate with toast and caramelised onion

Big green olives served with a crisp glass of Kiwi Sauvignon - nice and simple. Also ciabatta with balsamic and olive oil dip.

If I'm cooking, I like starters that are no fuss at all - eg a salad with balsamic glazed shallots or just a few plates of pickies.

If I'm not cooking, I like a tiny caramelised onion tart and salad, or nice soup, or just another salad of some sort. And I like bread....lots of bread....soda bread....brown bread cut really thinly....nice brown rolls....more bread...but then I am too full up to eat my main course.

Twice baked goats cheese suffles [sp] with a balsamic dressing.

Some really good fresh pasta in sage butter, with some really good fresh parmesan on top...

Smoked eel with horseradish and pain poilâne (très chic and easy peasy)

Oysters.

Spicy grilled baby octopus.

I find soup too filling as a starter.

goats chees souffle -oh god yes!!

Octopus?!

Could we keep the parameters a little smaller please...

Apart from the octopus, are we on the right track at all though?

Anything to do with prawns - I love prawns. they are my fave food.

mm smoked eel sounds yumm

jellied brawn and toast

I've got three x 100g packets in the fridge, that we were bought in for Christmas but not consumed. Might eat some tonight!

Hmm am thinking goats cheese at the moment!

How do I reduce balsamic vinegar?

good old mozzarrella ,basil,tomato

pea rissotto

lol at your starters bonsoir

I like mozarella, tomato and avo too (with basil)

can't bear goat's cheese so my heart always drops if I see that