I’m always looking for something interesting to have with drinks when guests are coming for lunch or dinner. These are quick and easy. They can be made before guests arrive and then reheated and if you use GF plain flour, they work for everyone.
Homemade savoury biscuits are great to serve to visitors with cheese, dips etc. instead of bought biscuits. I make cheese and sesame ones and chicken ones, but I think I’ll give these French Onion ones a try.
I recently went to a paella cooking class at Pizzini Wines in the King Valley, so when I came across this Jambalaya recipe my first thought was how similar it was to paella. Apparently the main difference is in the spices. Paella uses saffron and Jambalaya, cayenne pepper. With the cost of saffron, making Jambalaya looks like a great idea.
I guess this would now be called a pasta bake, but back in the 90s it was a Pasta Pie. Either way it’s delicious.
This is a great lamb dish for a party as it uses 2 1.5kg boned legs of lamb and makes a fairly large casserole. Of course if you halve the recipe, it’s a fine for a family meal or a smaller number of guests. It recommends asking your butcher to bone out two legs of lamb for you to use, which is shows it’s age. Now it’s all done for you at the supermarket without you having to ask – much easier!!
With the cost of beef and lamb having risen so much in the last few years pork has appeared a lot more on the menu. This recipe is a great way to make it interesting. You need to buy thin pork steaks so you can fold the meat over the filling or a larger piece that you can cut a pocket into though. With a bigger piece you’d probably be best using string to keep it together.
While this recipe is for 2 x 750g loins of boned lamb, I think it would work equally well with a piece of butterflied lamb, which is must more readily available. You could either cut a pocket in the lamb or just lay the seasoning on the top and roll it. Depending on the thickness of the lamb piece doing both might even work. Whichever way you do it the end result will taste great.
I wasn’t too excited when I found this recipe, I thought from the name that these were just going to be fruit toasties….then I realized that before you fried them in butter you soaked them in an egg/milk mixture and topped them off with cinnamon sugar and strawberries. That was when I realized that they were a whole lot more delicious than just an ordinary toasty.
I like the idea of this rice frittata because it’s a one pan dish. It would be a really good weekend meal, especially if you’ve got a bit of leftover cooked rice in the fridge. If you don’t have any a packet of microwave rice would work just as well.
This was a favourite dinner party recipe that I used to make back in the 90s. It didn’t take long to prepare and could be put in the oven when the guests arrived. It looked good on the plate and the sour cream sauce was an unusual addition. It’s worth a try if your looking for something different to serve.
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