Christmas menu

[ailbhe]

On the clear understanding that we will be eating the leftovers for weeks...

Starter: No idea. Neither Rob nor the children are that keen on melon, which was traditional in my family.

Main course: Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, roast carrots and parsnips, steamed carrots, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, two kinds of gravy, bread stuffing, bread sauce, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, mustard. No sausage stuffing, spiced beef, horseradish etc, we definitely don't have enough people.

Dessert: Trifle. For which we need to make and freeze the sponges soon. And buy the fruit and sherry. Also, some sort of snow-scene decorated cake, but not a fruit cake, because none of like like actual Christmas cake. Perhaps an iced bara brith? Mainly we'll be eating the trifle, anyway.

There is a shopping list a-growing. I need to decide where I'll buy the ham. And how big.

Comments

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

My family's traditional Christmas starter is just orange and grapefruit, sliced as for fruit salad with all the peel and bits cut off, served in a bowl as it's quite juicy. I have no idea why this should be the case, as the concept of fruit as a starter has never really come up at any other meal, but it seems to work. The orange makes it sufficiently Christmassy, and the grapefruit makes it do the work of a starter by being tart and refreshing and appetite-inducing.

I have no idea what I'm cooking this year. My mum is doing the actual Christmas Day stuff (with as much delegation as we can persuade her to) but I'm cooking a few days later for people who won't have been there for Christmas and I'm not sure whether to do yet another big roast dinner with trimmings or do something smaller and simpler and hope that they'll all be fed up with big meals by then.

[ailbhe]

Gosh, that sounds very appealing!