How different from the home life...

[f4f3]

It's only Wednesday, and I'm stressing about my dinner party on Saturday.

I'm trying to do "80's Dinner Party With A Twist" (since I advertised "80's dinner party" when I was talking about this with Kay and James). So far my ideas are Inside Out Prawn and Avocado for starter (guacamole inside a bowl of tail on king prawns, or maybe langoustines arranged around a bowl of gaucamole) but no ideas for the main course. I did think of doing Beef Wellingtons, with chilli served in white china boots, but for that I'd need to find six white china boots).
I’m also thinking of cheating for the sweet, and finding a big, frozen black forest gateaux.
Any ideas?

Comments

[anthrokeight.livejournal.com]

I always associate 80's Fancy Party with brie cheese heated so melty with cranberry chutney, sometimes wrapped in phyllo. Or spinach dip in a bread bowl. Or, as someone said below, "blackened" anything. Also stuffed mushrooms.

The heydey of my mom's entertaining was the 80's. I washed so much lettuce in those days.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Individual baked camembert for a starter... It's a thought.

[radialcell.livejournal.com]

My brain zoomed to spinach dip in a bread bowl too....and to my Dad's Israeli bread salad, which along with spinach dip he always made for parties when I was small. But that's probably not A Thing outside of secular Jewish households.

[anthrokeight.livejournal.com]

I ate Lebanese bread salad just now for dinner. Are we talking the same thing? Parsley, mint, feta, tomato, olive, cucumber, garlic, green onion, bell pepper, stale pita, and sumac? With a lemon/olive oil/garlic dressing?

Oh, man. I love fatoush/Israeli bread salad so much.

[radialcell.livejournal.com]

No mint and no sumac, and toasted sourdough or French instead of pita, but otherwise yes. Yum.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Not hugely :) unblinkered makes a fabulous bread salad with watermelon...