{"id":8201,"date":"2019-05-24T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yousaytomatocooking.com\/?post_type=recipe&#038;p=8201"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:32:40","slug":"a-summer-party-menu-for-friends","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/cookwithgem.com\/recipe\/a-summer-party-menu-for-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"a summer party menu for friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the questions I get asked most is for ideas for party food. I do this for a job so I&#8217;m always pulling together menus but I know that for a lot of people, having friends over can feel stressful and expensive. So I&#8217;m sharing a summer party menu to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve got children, entertaining is about delicious food, children running wild and plenty of wine. Life is stressful enough so the fun bits of having friends over shouldn&#8217;t feel stressful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently made this summer party menu for 20 people in an unfamiliar kitchen and it went down a treat. So you should finds it a breeze. This menu also works well when things are room temperature so you won&#8217;t be stressing about things being hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re savvy you&#8217;ll invite people on a Saturday and have leftovers to make Sunday and the start of the week easy peasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summer party menu:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Roast chicken thighs with fennel, garlic and lemon.<\/li><li>Spanakopita (a Greek spinach, lemon and feta pie).<\/li><li>New potatoes, boiled whole in salted water and then gently crushed and stirred through salsa verde butter.<\/li><li>Roast radishes and asparagus.<\/li><li>Romesco sauce.<\/li><li>Tomato and basil salad.<\/li><li>Rhubarb cake with roast rhubarb compote and creme fraiche.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here are the recipes&#8230;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cookwithgem.com\/recipe\/greek-spinach-feta-egg-pie-child-approved-green-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanakopita<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cookwithgem.com\/recipe\/salsa-verde-butter-add-oomph-to-anything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salsa verde<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cookwithgem.com\/recipe\/romesco-sauce-youll-adding-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romesco sauce<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cookwithgem.com\/recipe\/roast-radishes-and-asparagus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roast radish and asparagus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cookwithgem.com\/recipe\/one-bowl-summer-fruit-cake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhubarb cake<\/a>&nbsp;(I served this with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ing.com\/recipe\/pinkly-perfect-roast-rhubarb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roasted rhubarb<\/a>&nbsp;and creme fraiche that I swirled with juice from the roasted rhubarb and honey).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Helpful equipment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now buy the equipment I use in this recipe through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cookwithgem.com\/shop\/\"><strong>my shop<\/strong><\/a>. I\u2019ve spent years testing my favourite bits of equipment so rest-assured that whatever I recommend is the best tool for the job and will give you great results without cluttering your kitchen with unused tools. I receive a small affiliate fee from Amazon if you buy via my link. The products don\u2019t cost you any more. These small fees help me keep creating all the free content I share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few tips<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>chicken thighs<\/strong> were roasted in a roasting pan at 200c fan (400f) for 50 minutes. Before roasting them, I sprinkled them with fennel seeds, salt and smoked paprika and sat them on whole cloves of garlic and lemon cut into wedges. They are best eaten after they&#8217;ve rested out of the oven for 10 minutes but sit happily in their roasting pan, lossly covered with foil for up to an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>baby tomatoes<\/strong> were halved and tossed with sea salt and red wine vinegar. I left them to sit for an hour in the salt and vinegar before scooping them on top of whole leaves of basil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Timings and prepping ahead<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can make everything in a one-off two hour cooking session but if you prefer to make things gradually in the days before, here&#8217;s how&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>spanakopita<\/strong> can be made the day before and re-heated. Leftovers will be fine in the fridge for a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>tomatoes<\/strong> can be halved and dressed an hour before people arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>chicken<\/strong> can be cooked and served at room temperature so you can make that just before people arrive.&nbsp;Leftovers will be fine in the fridge for 3 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<strong> radishes<\/strong> can be cooked in the morning and re-heated. Asparagus is best cooked just before serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>potatoes<\/strong> are best cooked just before serving. Leftover potatoes are amazing made into my roast squished potatoes. Used the leftover new potatoes in salsa verde then lay them on a metal tray without adding anything else and roast them at 200c fan (400f) for 45-60 minutes (longer is best), sprinkling them with salt and white wine vinegar before serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>cake and rhubarb<\/strong> can be made two days ahead.&nbsp;Leftovers will be fine for a few days. Keep the cake in a cake tin out of the fridge and the rhubarb in the fridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Romesco sauce and salsa verde<\/strong> can be kept in the fridge for a week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions I get asked most is for ideas for party food. 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