[bloomer]

I'm doing a buffet for 150 people on friday and I have my menu sorted but it got me thinking, whats your favorite buffet dish???

Either a centre piece (in this case baked hams) or any other dish (my home made coleslaw)

so go on what do you all like?

[Bionic]

I'm a sucker for coronation chicken or anything with prawns

Sally

[Fleecewife]

I hate 'salads' made with pasta.

My favourite buffet salad is made with sweetcorn, chopped apples and celery, finely chopped shallots, a little finely chopped white cabbage, finely grated carrots, perhaps some red pepper, clementine and raw green beans, plus lots of fresh herbs, and a sprinkling of plump sultanas and sunflower kernels, with a dressing of set yoghurt with a little lemon juice and chilli powder (or add chopped chilli), or salad cream or mayonnaise with horseradish or mustard.  Lots of seasonal variations but it's lovely and crispy and fresh.
We call it 'choppy-uppy salad'    and my eldest grandson hates it   

[bloomer]

well fleecewife can do salad anytime that sounds good....

i'm currently roasting off 24 peppers for a hot soup for earlier in the day to say i'm sick of red peppers is an understatement!!!

[SallyintNorth]

baked hams and home-made coleslaw would be super!

roasted red pepper soup too?  where is it, can I come?? 

i find mostly that buffet = loadsa processed starch - pastry, breadcrumbs, sandwiches ... all nice things but for me, there's never enough fresh fruit and veg, so i'm always the one picking up the carrot, pepper, cuce and tomato garnishes off all the serving plates!  but from what you've said already, your buffet will be beautiful!

[Cinderhills]

I love sausage rolls.    Although had some at a christening buffet recently, put loads on my plate and they were vile.  Serves me right for being greedy.

[MAK]

Centre piece - I only did it once and needed a week to recover.

Boned chicken stuffed with a cos lettuce ,rice,chicken livers and mango chutney. Try stuffing a wing ! ? People luv it when you carve across legs and breast.

or
Pretzels

[bloomer]

MAK that's a heck of a centre piece beyond my talents i'm afraid.

the best looking one i do is the poached whole (large) salmon but that wasn't wanted for this buffet as its my brothers wedding and he doesn't really eat fish!

[MAK]

Yes not sure the chicken would feed 150 though.
Try it - the lettuce and any chutney you mix with the rice keeps it moist and chicken livers are cheap. Non kosher version means you can add  prawns or ham.
Luv Salmon mmmmmm

[Sandy]

My favorate buffet was held when I went on a conference in Melton Mowbray to a working pig farm...

we had home made Melton Pork Pies , Stilton Cheese  , a big ham  , crusty rustic bread, home grown tomatoes and lots of wonderful home grown pickles...follwed by fruit loaf and some sort of cake!!!!!!! Good job I have just eaten as I just loved that buffet, everything said at the conference slipped into insignificance after seeing that lot!!!!

[HappyHippy]

For me, a buffet's not a buffet without vol-au-vents 
Easy & quick to do en-mass and you can vary the fillings to suit. Normally it's the usual egg mayo, chicken & sweetcorn, tuna, and Fleecewife's choppy uppy salad would be lovely in some too 
Good luck with it !
Karen 

[doganjo]

Just do a big pot of chilli and basmati!  With a green salad on the side.

[Anke]

Best wedding buffet I ever had was at a friends wedding in the Highlands in the local village hall, where the village ladies had cooked a huge quantity of stovies and I think there was a non-vegetarian version of mince and stovies  too... (oodles of ketchup too),  fantastically un-pretentious. Also as I was 8 months pregnant a the time it was exactly my kind of food!

Sorry probably not that helpful.... but one of the things I really used to hate when being at conferences (in a former life) were those stand-about and eat from a wobbly paper plate and try to have polite "net-working" conversations with people you a) don't know and b) don't want to know, and c) will never meet again.... so I usually hate buffets.

[Miss Piggy]

I love the whole poached salmon dressed with cucumber scales or salmon mousse. Good luck Bloomer hope the wedding and buffet go well. Baked hams and coleslaw sounds good to me. Love the sound of Fleecewife's salad . Yumyum.  Making me hungry all this talk of yummie food. 

[bloomer]

hippy

we have also prepped 240 vol aux vants today, 150 home made sausage rolls, 150 pizza pinwheels...

tomorrow is coleslaws and other stuff that can be done a day ahead...

for now its sleepy time