Christmas menu & shopping list

[ailbhe]

Christmas Eve

Pickled herring, steamed potatoes, bread and butter Cold ham, cheese, potato salad, beetroot salad Meatballs, cocktail sausages, green beans, peas Rice pudding and fruit salad

Pickled herring, potatoes, nice bread, ham, cheese, beetroot, mayo, meatballs, cocktail sausages, green beans, peas, oat milk, fruit for salad

Christmas Dinner

Starter: Cold steamed salmon with lemon, devilled eggs	Salmon, lemon, eggs, mayo, mustard
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.	Turkey (ordered), ham, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sprouts, cauliflower, plain flour, bread for crumbs, onion, bayleaves, cooking apples, cranberry sauce in a jar
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.	Eggs for sponge, custard powder, oat milk, oat cream, preserved fruit (pears? peaches?), glace cherries, raspberry jam, sherry. Mince pies? Pudding?

Comments

[sfred]

You're making me hungry!

[ailbhe]

I'm working on the scheduling now! I think we can do almost all the prep at least one day ahead, leaving very little for the day itself.

[sfred]

I'm very impressed with your advance-planning. We have only just started negotiating the menu (although our menu will be vegan, so no birds or hams to order).

[ailbhe]

Most of the menu is non-negotiable :)

What I negotiate is the labour division. If my abiding memory of Christmas is lots and lots of last-minute work in our tiny, cramped kitchen, it won't be pretty.

[sfred]

:)
Our division of labour will be: "Kitchen is mine!! Stay out!"
I don't think my partner will argue too much with that, as her home-cooking doesn't stretch much further than oven-chips.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

We are going to my sister's; either my daughter or I will be taking the alternative pudding (few of us like Christmas pudding very much), and the dessert. And the sparkling wine.

[ailbhe]

Heh, wine isn't part of our plan at all!

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

What does your family drink for celebrations? Elderflower is lovely, and Shloer apple and/or grape are nice, too.

[ailbhe]

It varies; when in my mother's house we do have a half-bottle of wine between the three of us (and sometimes we even finish it!) but otherwise we have Schloer. My children don't like fizzy things so we'll probably get a decent juice from the farmer's market, depending on what we fancy; I want apple and rhubarb to go with dessert. The children will most likely choose water anyway.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, the fresh juices you can get at the farmers' market are heaven!