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

[khrister.livejournal.com]

We'll be having a smörgåsbord as usual. Well, the christmas variant julbord, anyway.

There's an old tradition that you're supposed to get seven plates of food:

1. Plate one is inlagd sill (pickled herring) of all kinds, potatoes, bread and butter.
   
2. Plate two is fish other than sill. Salmon, smoked mackerel, shrimps, shellfish paté.
   
3. Plate three is coldcuts. Christmas ham, roast beef, head cheese, aspic, more paté. Eaten with potato sallad, beet sallad and similar things.
   
4. Plate four is warm things. Meatballs, sausages, ribs, Janssons frestelse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janssons_frestelse), brussel sprouts, omelettes, beans
   
5. Plate five is lutfisk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk).
   
6. Plate six is christmas porridge with milk, golden syrup and cinnamon.
   
7. And finally, plate seven is a fruit salad with ris a la Malta (cold rice pudding mixed with cream and sugar) and/or ostkaka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostkaka) (cheesecake, but not at all like the american one).
   

Thankfully, we don't follow that tradition fully...

[ailbhe]

We might do something a little like that on Christmas Eve.

[ailbhe]

We have used your list to base our Christmas Eve menu on! thank you!

[khrister.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of help. :-)

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Including the lutfisk? ;)

[ailbhe]

Think more along the lines of the novelisation of the movie of the book "based on."