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I'm looking for ideas for a dinner party for four on Saturday and wondered if anyone could help.

I would like to do an Italian meal with antipasti and breads to start perhaps followed by a second course and then dessert. I know the typical Italian meal has more courses than this but not sure if we'd be able to cope with the amount of food!

I like the idea of some different bits that we can tuck into so we can have whatever we want but the main thing I am looking for is some different ideas/recipes for antipasti. Can anyone come up with something different to the usual grilled/roasted veg, meats, olives, etc? I've already done a search on the site for antipasti but there wasn't that many different things that came up.

I'm wondering whether it might be better just to do lots of antipasti 'type' stuff we can nibble on (I guess you may call it 'grazing'!) and then just do dessert, but think we would need a few dishes that are slightly more substantial.

One of the guests is vegetarian, although don't know if she likes fish and we will be able to have some meat it's just she won't have it of course!

For desserts I'm thinking something easy such as affogato or baked peaches with ameretto and creme fraiche.

Thanks for any help.

Helen