Father’s Day Make Ahead Starters/Nibbles Recipes

If you are catering over the weekend I have a few recipes and ideas that I use that can be made ahead and served to friends and family. The recipes can be scaled up for a crowd or halved for an intimate dinner.

I always try and get as many things ahead of time so I’m not in the kitchen when my friends arrive, but I always manage to gravitate there no matter how well prepared I am!

I have three cold starters that are crowd pleasers, a mushroom pate, smoked salmon pate and my marinated artichokes.

The Quick & Easy Mushroom Pâté is versatile I love a pate at Borough Market and I worked on the recipe and now I can enjoy it anytime not just when I get to my food heaven. I know a few of my readers have vegans in the family so I have devised two recipes from the one batch.  I have made a small quantity for a dinner for two and I have also scaled this up and turned out a loaf tin size for a larger gathering.

https://www.marissa.co/recipes/quick-easy-mushroom-pate/

Marinated Artichokes are expensive to buy and often swimming in oil, my quick easy recipe is economical to make and coated beautifully in just the right amount of vinaigrette. I am not partial to artichokes but this recipe has me hooked.

https://www.marissa.co/recipes/marinated-artichokes/

This is the best Quick Smoked Salmon Pâté Recipe every mouthful is zingy with the tip I give you for the salmon and lemon, smoky from the trimming pieces you use and luxurious. If you wanted to you can add the filling to crustade cases and spoon a tiny drop of caviar onto the top of each canape or you can serve it on a board as shown below.

https://www.marissa.co/recipes/quick-smoked-salmon-pate/