Carnivores - if you were at a party which of these would you eat from the buffet?

[lilibet]

1. rigatoni and roasted veg
   

1. chicken basque
   

1. Gnocchi with rosemary ragu and garlic mushrooms, it's a Simon Rimmer recipe and I can't find a link
   

thanks

[BanjoPlayingTiger]

Is the answer "Yes" acceptable??

realises why I'll never be a size 12

[keely79]

2 and 3 - only because I'm not mad keen on peppers or courgettes (and roasted veg and pasta always seems to include them).

[dothraki]

1,2 & 3 - I'm never going to get back into those size 8 jeans

[Mononoke]

All 3 for me too.

[AmandaPayne]

I would like to eat all three. I would try and confine myself to choosing one of them those

[celebmum]

2 then 1 then 3. in order of preference.. mainly as im not a fan of mushrooms. not 'muchroom' for them in my life!!

[BirdyBedtime]

All 3 sound good but I'd probably go for 3 as I can't resist garlic mushrooms!

[Itsjustafleshwound]

Anything but the chicken - chicken from a buffet is asking for trouble

[WowOoo]

I'd go for no.3 if I had to choose one.

I regularly overdose on chicken at home so I like to have different things at parties.

[throckenholt]

I would go for number 2. Don't like mushrooms, aubergines, or olives (me? fussy ?).

[FiveGoMadInDorset]

first two would be favourites, would eat third but gnocchi not high on the lik elist.

[DeafLeopard]

All of them

[lilibet]

Well, I'm glad I asked.

Dh and I are veggies and I'm doing these three dishes on a buffet for 40 and I was thinking of how much of each to cook. If i hadn't asked I would have automatically presumed that the chicken would have been easily the most popular.

thanks

[AmandaPayne]

If you don't mind me asking, if you are veggie how come you are doing meat? I certainly wouldn't expect a veggie to cook meat things on my account.

[Fillyjonk75]

Essentially you're doing pasta and pasta with one and three. I'd make one a fish dish, one meat, and one gnocchi. I'd go for the gnocchi out of the three offered though.

[LondonMother]

I love all food. As an omnivore I like to try a bit of everything. At buffets I think this is fairly common which is why the vegetarians/vegans sometimes get short changed if the caterer has assumed that the omnivores will only eat the stuff with meat and/or fish in it.

I'd have no problem at all attending a buffet with only vegetarian food, lilibet, so as others have said, any particular reason for providing a chicken dish? I wouldn't have through you needed to.

[lljkk]

my problem is that when meat is served the portions are often huge but only huge for the meat. I would prefer huge pile of veggie, small starch, small meat. I'd end up preferring 3, too, for fear of too much chicken.

[sheeplikessleep]

I'd like to try all three

[Fillyjonk75]

I also wouldn't have a problem attending a buffet which was all vegetarian, but if the host isn't bothered by cooking meat, why restrict yourself unduly?

[LIZS]

all 3

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

3 then 1 then 2, I love olives to eat but not cooked into things. The pasta is possibly a bit everyday, we eat pasta tomato things at home a lot, the chicken sounds ok but I am a bit tired of chorizo it seems to pop up everywhere and makes a lot of dishes all taste the same. I'd definitely prefer the garlic mushrooms.

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

Oh yes and I'd have no problem with an all veggie menu too, I often eat veggie in restaurants.

[Ragwort]

All three - no wonder I am a size 18 16.

Chicken basque is my all time favourite meal so I would definately have that and then I would like to try the other two as well .

[SummerRainIsADistantMemory]

3, although I'd be very tempted by 2 but would depend how heavy on the peppers you were.... I can't stand them so they have to be fairly inconspicuous for me to chance it.

i love pasta but hate courgettes so would look wistfully at 1 and give it a wide berth.

Keely.... I'm oddly pleased to have come across another pepper and courgette hater. Most people look at me blankly and say 'But they're cooked in, you won't notice them'

[JenaiMorris]

THe only issue I'd have with the chicken is that if there's nowhere to sit and you don't have proper cutlery and crockery, it'll be a bugger to eat.