Catering queen

When it's possibly the warmest day of the year and temperatures are predicted to be in the 30s, what's the last thing you want to be doing? Cooking up a storm in the kitchen! But that's what I am up to today.

We've been invited to a special evening at the Anglo-European college in town for their annual celebration event which involves you taking your own food - 'Hampers' and then they will provide the 'Champers' . Can you guess what they call the evening yet? So we are on a table of 10 and are sharing the catering. But although I only volunteered for baking a quiche, and making a tuna,celery and grape pasta dish and bring some salad bits, I naturally got sidetracked looking through 'Old Faithful' - my trusty handwritten recipe book!
So on top of the things I said I am bringing I have made 'Mandy's samosa/pasty pies' to have with an Indian mint dip and 'Ainsley's Feta/olive/sun dried tomato triangles'. Temperature outside - 30 Temperature in my kitchen - more like 40.

The music tonight is provided by the college's band and singers which are supposed to be amazing and it's held in a marquee with twinkly lights in the ceiling (I do so love fairy lights!) and rumour has it that the atmosphere is more 'London Hotel' than provincial college. I will let you know!

Meanwhile - here's the food ....