Sunday Best: Starters for Ten (or Forty)

There are so many great comments on the project that I compile the week's best every Sunday and post them up with links to the contributors.

If you would like to be included in Sunday Best leave me a comment on any post sharing your own dinner for two experiences, cooking tips, easy entertaining tricks, questions, or feedback on the project. Make sure you let me know your web page as well so I can include a link!

Finally back to normal here with Sunday Best. SD is working this weekend and we could not be together. Which means I have not been in the kitchen much. Sigh.

You all have been busier than ever though!

In my only post this week I wanted to know about your traditional feasts and I was wondering if an appetiser was appropriate for a holiday meal like Christmas or Thanks Giving Dinner.

Christy sees no problem with a starter

We always have some sort of appetizer - but there are usually 40 people at my mom's and we never eat on time! Love the mushrooms - I will be adding cream next time I make them! thanks for sharing with us at the hearth and soul hop!

FORTY?! Away with ye! That's amazing!

I am partial to Butterpoweredbike's favourite Thanks Giving dinner appetiser: the skin off the turkey when it comes out of the oven!

Sue from Couscous and Consciousness stopped by all the way from New Zealand! I like the sound of a holiday feast that includes the beach and a BBQ and BACON. In PIE. That is so awesome.

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in New Zealand, and other than Christmas we don't much do traditional feasts here. We do however have New Zealand day, which is a holiday, and as this is in the height of the summer people usually head for the beach and have picnics or barbeques - in New Zealand bacon & egg pie is a very classic picnic item.

Boy, does my kitchen have some limitations - I don't have a proper oven - in fact my cooking equipment consists of a small kind of "toaster oven", a single hotplate, an electric Breville grill, a crockpot, and a microwave. How do I overcome these difficulties? - I am very good at what I call my "one-pot" wonders :-)
 
BTW your mushrooms look as though they would make a great appetiser.

Check out Sue's blog for some of her "one pot wonders" and other recipes. Goes to show that equipment ain't everything. She does amazing stuff with a hot plate and toaster oven.

Alex from A Moderate Life is a regular visitor and stopped by to say Happy Thanks Giving. It is a holiday (in its American incarnation) that means a lot to her and her familiy.

Even-star! First, happy thanksgiving to you and your family! I am from the states and first generation american and when my parents came from europe, the thanksgiving was the first holiday they wrapped themselves around whole heartedly. It has become my favorite and I get to cook this year so I am very excited! The joy of mushrooms and cream are so decadent and the secret is they really are easy to prepare but only YOU and other foodies know that! What a lovely starter and thanks again for sharing it with us at the hearth and soul hop!

I hope you share some of your holiday cooking with us Alex!

That is all for this week dear gastronauts and as always I would like to say that I appreciate how precious your time is and it is amazing that you chose to spend some of that time sharing with me here.

This weekend coming up I shall be travelling north to see the bear but I will try to get a recipe up. I made a trip to the charity shop today and came away with a glorious vintage cook book. Oh man is there some weird and wonderful stuff in there! I might have to start a new feature: WTF Wednesday.

What the heck is a toheroa?