Impressive dinner party menu
A divine selection of easy recipes that will ensure your guests are wowed!
Click on the recipe names for printable instructions... and scroll down for the vital time plan!
Apple and elderflower fizz
Oysters with three sauces
Five-spice duck with port plums
Crispy thyme mash
Buttered cabbage
Molten chocolate parcels
Pumpkin seed brittle
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TIME PLAN
The day before
* Prepare the oyster sauces and
Crispy Thyme Mash
On the day - to serve supper at 8pm
3pm
* Prepare filling for Molten
Chocolate Parcels
* Time to lay the table, relax and
get ready
6.45pm
Prepare Molten Chocolate Parcels
7pm
* Prepare Five-Spice Duck
and Port Plums
7.20pm
* Prepare Buttered Cabbage
7.30pm
* Take the three oyster sauces out
of the fridge and allow them to
come up to room temperature
7.45pm
* Complete oyster sauces
8pm
* Cook duck breasts. Serve starter
8.15pm
* Take duck out to rest. Finish
plum sauce. Complete Crispy
Thyme Mash and Buttered
Cabbage. Serve main course
* Put puddings in 15min before
you want to serve them and prepare
Pumpkin Seed Brittle, if making
* Serve coffee with the Pumpkin
Seed Brittle
