Help With Nibbles

[nextqueen]

I'm stuck in the house and supposed to be taking appetizers and nibbles round to neighbours for a bit of a celebratory birthday do monday night. I was going to pop to M & S food to get something but no way I can get out with the snow down the country lanes. Any wonderful and quick ideas for making some nibbles from scratch?

[EcclesCake]

Give us fighting chance and tell us what you have in your fridge and cupboards!

Mini cheese scones with a chutney topping is a store cupboard standard.

[giveup]

What have you got in your cupboards

[ummmm]

//Mini cheese scones with a chutney topping is a store cupboard standard.//

Really? I must re-evaluate my store cupboard...

[EcclesCake]

Tuna & capers with lemon zest or juice blitzed with a glug of olive oil and scooped into peppadew peppers or hollowed out cherry toms.

[Smowball]

Potato wedges? and some dips.

[EcclesCake]

I'm guessing most people have cheese, eggs, flour and chutney in their fridge/cupboards. Not that weird an assumption is it???

Maybe I'm the weird one ;-)

[sherrardk]

Tuna is so expensive, I only buy it when I know I want to use it. Could you make cheese straws (no idea how you do this of course, but it can't be much more than cheese and some sort of pastry stuff).

[sherrardk]

Ps - only buy eggs when I know they will be used that week (buy eggs ,Abe once every two months), never buy chutney because I don't eat it.

[EcclesCake]

Fair point Sherrard a tin of tuna would make a LOT of canapes and it has gone up a lot in price.

[nextqueen]

sorry to be so vague. I must add that the host is cooking a risotto for main so I said I would take round some nibbles/appetizers for a starter. No tuna, got cheese, mince, the host doesnt eat red meat though, flour, olives, chicken, tikka paste, can't think of much else at moment. Im wanting to make something simple and easy, cheese straws?

[EcclesCake]

If you do have eggs and some potatoes and onion you could make frittata bites.

I'm starting to realise that my fridge and cupboards are weird......

[giveup]

God,I hate Tuna. Yuk

[Maydup]

Mini most things - pizzas, jacket potatoes, sausage rolls, thai fish cakes, etc

Falafel, figs & blue cheese on sticks, stuffed cherry tomatoes, crudites with cream cheese dip, depends what you have in the fridge.

[Smowball]

If you have mince you could do mini meatballs.

[sherrardk]

If Asda don't deliver tomorrow I'm stuffed! Eccles, I wasn't being arsey about the tuna but when I make something with it, I use at east four tins (I virtually do as mass catering).

[tamborine]

savoury stuffed pancakes, stuff with mixed veg (from freezer) & indian spices, (like veg somosa).

sweet pancakes with fruit (from freezer) honey & dusted with icing sugar or grated chocolate.

Cut to finger-picking size.

[EcclesCake]

I know that Sherrard, my suggestion was stupid as I often do it for just two of us and realise that I could have fed half the street and had left overs. And tuna is sodding expensive!!! It certainly isn't the cheap bung it in pasta with tomato sauce cheap mid week supper any more!

[Buenchico]

I'd stick with the cheese straws but possibly adding some mustard (or garlic) to this basic recipe:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2413/quick-cheese-straws

[EcclesCake]

Do you have any puff pastry in the freezer nextqueen?

If you do roll it out thin and cover lightly with grated cheese and finely chopped olives roll into a sausage and cut slices bake on a baking sheet for 15 mins or untl puffed and golden.

Cue.....Eccles learning that having pastry in the freezer is weird ;-)