My brother in law and family had a total of 18 people round for the New Year. They organised a buffet which we helped them put together. Surprisingly about five of us who do not normally prepare food together managed to work together effectively.
[I am hopelessly behind with blogging so sorry this contribution is two weeks late!]
We started off with a fish soup - more of that later. Then attacked the buffet which was mainly fish and cheese.
The cheese platter was a mixture of Dutch and English cheeses accompanied with a few "dips" including quince cheese, sweet chilli sauce and sweet mustard. I cannot remember all the Dutch cheeses but we took two sorts of smoked cheddar, stilton and mexicana. The bread on the right is flatbread from a Turkish bakery.
For the fish platter we had a variety of fresh and smoked fish. We did spicy tuna roll and salmon roll sushi style - both conventional and inside-out rolls; had smoked salmon with cream cheese on toast and a variety of smoked fish. The smoked fish are eel (behind celery sticks), mackerel (left), Mallaig sprats (middle), trout and salmon (right).
It's only 16 days ago, but it seems like a long time ago now!
technomist
It looks scrummy. Thanks for posting this, and just before my lunch too.