Buffet Style Party for twenty-four  for a Saturday Evening – 17/10/2010

Preliminaries:   Start thinking of possible menu from a week before.

 Always bear in mind particular food likes and dislikes of guests

By Tuesday evening:  Finalise Menu and Plan Shopping List

The Menu

Starters

Bruschetti with Carciofi Pate’ and Black Olive Pate’

 accompanied with nuts, cherry tomatoes, mozzarello,stuffed olives, pesto dip and galletti

Main Course

Smoked Turkey with an horseradish and mustard sauce

Beef Tonnato – Thin layers of roast beef with tuna mayonnaise

Spinach and Salmon Roulade

Prawns lightly fried in tomato puree’ and garlic

Contorni

Baked Onion tart

Risotto with broad beans,  zucchini and ricotta

Tomatoe and Parsley Salad

Marinated vegetables with bufalo mozzarella

Baked Pumpkin

Dessert

Chocolate, Almond and Rum Cake

Coffee

Brewed Coffee with Pasta Frolli (almond tarts)

Plan of Action

Tuesday:  Take turkey to butcher for smoking

Wednesday :  Shopping for all Food

Thursday: Shopping for all  Fresh Vegetables

Thursday Evening

Start cooking Desserts:  Pasta Frolli (almond tarts)  to go with coffee, Chocolate and Almond and Rum Cake

Friday Evening

• Prepare the Roulade and Salmon Filling
• Bake Onion Tart
• Prepare tuna Mayonnaise
• Peel Beans (ful)
• Bake the Pumpkins

Saturday Morning

• Collect Turkey from Butcher
• Prepare Tomato and Parsley Salad
• Marinated Vegetables with bufala mozzarella
• Sear the Lucerto
• Make sure there are enough drinks to go around, particularly wine

Saturday Afternoon

• Prepare Risotto
• Phase two of Lucerto – slow cooking in oven (allow 20 minutes standing for cooling before carving).
• Prepare Prawns

Late Afternoon

• Setting out of plates, crockery, glasses etc
• Setting out the food (tuna mayonnaise with beef on a bed of rucola and walnuts, etc)
• Prepare bruschetti and things to go around  the starters
• Prepare espresso coffee maker
• Make sure that the dishwasher is empty (for after dinner clearing).