@anc wrote:

ok, here goes:

starter: Asparagus (3-4 per person) topped with a poached egg, some melted butter and parmesan and black pepper.

main course: Beef in beer – Deilia Smith (can make before, and always tastes better when re-heated), with mash or baked potatoes, red cabbage and green beans.

pudding: peeled and halved grapes w. fromage frais and whipped cream mixed altogether, topped with loads of demerara sugar, in a bowl and put in fridge about 3hrs beforehand – made before too. Looks really pretty.

This is a fail-safe menu I do a lot – this is because all of it, bar the starter can be cooked well in advance. Tis only the starter that needs to be cooked, whilst they having drinkie poos!

Over to you……………..I have copied the last menu tho, gonna give that a bash :lol:

Sounds lovely anc…. peeling grapes? is there a knack to that :lol: I like the idea that most of it can be done before… thank you

Teapot