Dinner party on Friday

[atolhurst]

Am having a DP. Need suggestions for a main meal. Preferably meat based, following a starter of prawns and salmon.

Suggestions anyone??

[dmsjps]

Any meat will follow a fish starter and my suggestion will probably bore you because it's so 'normal', but I LOVE steak. At this time of year you can have new potatoes (tossed in butter with parsley and/or mint) to accompany steak instead of roasts and/or chips, it's sooo yummy!

[delilahcat]

Beef Bourgignon or Pork Normande. Either of these can be prepared and cooked in advance (nice long slow cooking) and need no attention once they're in the oven, leaving you time to look after your guests.

[lozzzz]

Pan fried chicken livers and wild mushrooms in red wine served on a bed of green leaves with crispy bacon and croutons, prep the lot in advance,takes 5 mins to cook..one of you clears the starter while the other sautes the livers.

[Artemis]

Individual Beef Wellingtons.

[LordyGeordie]

while any meat will follow a fish starter i would try and avoid doing steak. i find it's far too tricky to do at a dinner party as not everybody likes it cooked the same way so you get people waiting for theirs or sat going cold while others are still cooking it just gets far too tricky.

my favourite is belly pork with baked beans. score the skin of the pork and salt it to get great crackling. Then slap it straight onto the shelf of a low oven - no baking tray, nothing. underneath on the shelf below you put your homemade baked beans to catch all the juice from the posrk.

to make the beans get a couple of tins of haricots beans (unless you can be bothered to soak dried ones overnight) put them in a casserole with some fried-off onion and bacon (or pancetta) a tin of tomatoes, and herbs including bay elaf and a splash of wine. leave to roast underneath the pork for a few hours until the porks done. about 10 mins from the end you may wan to take the pork out cut off the skin and put it in under a hot grill to make the crackling.

cut the pork into big thick individual slices and serve on top of the beans.

 

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