Prawns

[dothawkes]

Can someone let me have an idea for using prawns in a buffet but not vol-au-vents please.  It is my daughter's 21st tomorrow and I have bought two bags of frozen Young's peeled prawns. Tried to e.mail young's chef from their website but no reply.  It is a special request from my daughter but I have never used them b4

Cheers

[CiderMonkey]

my mum makes this lovely dish where she adds shredded lettuce to the prawns and covers is with a dressing (perhaps thousand island dressing? I'm not sure. It's pink, though).

It always goes down really well when she has buffets. There's never any left!

[spudqueen]

To make the pink sauce CiderMonkey mentions mix together equal quantities of tomato ketchup, salad cream and fresh cream (If you use an extra thick one it will make the marie-rose sauce less runny).

How about open sandwiches with cream cheese topped with prawns?

[dmsjps]

Yep, agree that the prawn cocktail idea is scrummy, also the prawn topped cheesy sarnies. And you can make prawn coleslaw: shred onion, cabbage & carrot, add to mayo and tomato sauce mixture, season to taste, chuck in prawns, yummy.

[dothawkes]

You are all stars, I could do all of these in just a short space of time and still get all the other things done.  Excellent and many thanks for this.

[angiesue]

How about some ritz biscuits with cream cheese and pile a few prawns on top, quick and easy to eat.

[lindapinda]

Dot,a spoonful of prawns with the sauce on fresh wheaten bread is gorgeous.Whenever I get the m and s prawn cocktail,I always have it that way.

[dothawkes]

thanks angiesue/lindapinda

Great ideas which I can play around with, got lots of Ritz crackers 'cos what would a party be without them!  Like the bread idea too 'cos it is easy.

Now talk me out of the gateau and cheesecake, plus I have bought the cake from 'Have your cake and eat it', check out their site,

haveyourcakeandeatitorg. From Preston but they have moved recently and are just up the road!

I have ordered number 42 and it costs �52 but my daughter will be so chuffed! 

[spudqueen]

Hi dothawkes, hope everything is going okay for your daughters 21st and that she (and you!) have a fantastic time. Have checked out haveyourcakeandeatit website and think the cakes look fantastic. I live t'other side of Preston from you and have never heard of them before!

Forgot to mention, in the pink sauce a little paprika is nice (don't worry if you see this too late to stick a bit in).

Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dothawkes]

The 21st went really well, (if u were 21 and could stand the music so monotonous and loud, I sneaked away at 10pm to come home to watch BB final. ) The buffet went down really well though, I tried two prawn suggestions, the thousand island one and the sandwicj one, but I used wheatgerm bread, they all went so must have been good.  Most popular buffet item?  New potatoes, boiled with their skins on, tossed in mint sauce, I kid u not!

The cake was the star of the show next to my daughter who was IN A DRESS!  She looked like a movie star!  It was a bright red floor length figure hugging satin skirt with a bodice top, she even outshone the fabulous cake!  We scrub up well in Lancashire!