Well we are preparing our Christmas Eve evening meal and our Christmas day all day menu and need some ideas from you lot !

We have so far

Christmas Eve

Evening Nosh :
Starter :? Ideas please
Main :Individual Beef Wellington Parcels, Dauphinaise (Sp) tatties plus other assorted veggies with a mushroom and red wine sauce
Pud : ? Ideas please

Last thing make sure we have prepared and left FC and the RD nosh and drinks for when he does his visit !

(Baileys with Ice plus a piece of Yule Log and a few carrots) Our FC doesn't like whiskey and mince pies ! :D

Christmas Day

Open all the pressies first !

Breakfast :

An all day breakfast Frittata (sp) with Bucks Fizz before a two hour walk with the hounds

Christmas Day lunch ( Lunch in that we have a few friends round for lunchtime drink so may end up dinner ! :D )

Starter : ( Please don't laugh as we have jus made this one up ! :) ) Parcels of Lettuce with prawn cocktail with Lardons of smoked salmon.

Main: Roast leg of Lamb with all the normal stuff !

Pud: Christmas pud or Apple Pie with Jersey cream or homemade brandy butter.

Tea or supper : The usual cheese, pate, pork pie, pickles etc plus some port ! :D

So can anybody help with the ? In our menu draft menu ? :)

Lucy
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( I am officially a ex-bar humbag person turned a very excited person about Christmas as our friends have just confirmed they are with us for Christmas Eve now instead of  just Christmas Day so they will be here for all of what is the full magic of Christmas ! They don't and have not been able to have kids are Indigo's and Flo's Surrogate god parents  have never experienced where you get them to bedon Christmas Eve and the excitment of Xmas morning and the opening of pressies ! :D )

I wish I was as organised. I haven't started buying the presents yet.

~This year our pudding will be rhubard & blackcurrant with port lattice pie with loads of fresh cream. Rhubard and blackcurrants in freezer from the garden harvest. 

For starter, how about half small melons, de-seeded and filled with fruits, strawberry, rasberry, blueberry and red or blackcurrants with a sherry or port fruit syrup. I did this for a dinner party and it went down a treat. Quite expensive but worth it.                                                       

<<An all day breakfast Frittata (sp) with Bucks Fizz before a two hour walk with the hounds>>

Should that not read 'stagger with the hounds' ;)

Sounds like you are going to have a hectic but enjoyable day :D

Depends on the amount of bottles of bubbly we consume before hand ! :p  . We are all very much up for a yomp after breakfast so I am sure we will work off the excess ! :D

I do like Melon but the OH and the chums don't so a no goer ! :) Thanks though for the idea though !

Lucy
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How about large mushrooms stuffed with stilton breadcrumbs and chives. Or crabmeat coriander and spring onion is nice, topped with some cheese?? The other suggestion is to stuff them with Pate thats nice too.

liberty

Lucy, please can I come to you for Christmas dinner?  I love lamb and would much rather have that than turkey!!!  :D

Can't cook so I'm afraid I can't give you any suggestions, but what you have so far sounds delicious!  Have a great time.  :)

Pud ?

How about a Pavlova

It sounds lovely and i like all the port and so on! :D

For pudding on Christmas eve, are you intending to make or buy? As you will be pretty busy! I would suggest something fairly light - maybe a sort of make it in advance iced pudding or something?

Or, Delia makes a fantastic Cheats Chocolate Trifle with mascarpone, cherries, muffins, alcohol, etc (the mascarpone is mixed with melted chocolate...mmmm.. but maybe too much to make?!).

Lindsay
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Liberty, the mushrooms with pate sounds nice :) Not stilton as I don't like that ! :D
Earl of course you can come round ! The more the merrier ! :D
Christine, the Pavlova sounds a good one ! :) Rasberry yum ! :D
Lindsey, one thing I didn't say is that even though I cook Mike my husband does most of the cooking as he loves to do it so he is the chef whilst I will be the hostess making sure all the guests are entertained and drinks are flowing ! :D The Delia one sounds good ! Is it in the Christmas one ?

Lucy
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No it's not in the Christmas one, but i think it is in her chocolate one, and also in one of her others...the more recent set. It's really nice if you like chocolate and cherries - they are bottled cherries and not always easy to get, but if not i am sure tinned would be fine ;)

Lindsay
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You are making my mouth water with all this talk of food.

How about mackeral pate for starters? It's so easy to make and very tasty and healthy ;) I know mackeral isn't to everyones taste though.

I like Lindsays idea for pud, Its even given me a few ideas as I was going to do a very boozy trifle :D

Whatever you do, enjoy it ;)

Have a look in Tescos frozen section for their party food range for starters. We love the little rostis and mini pizzas. We also like bruschetas - diagonally slice a sandwich baguette, toast the wee slices with dobs of cheese and bits of pepper or bacon on em. Or you can try my Minibeast's suggestion for Christmas Dinner. We asked her for " special foods we dont have often" as ideas for Christmas dinner and with shining eyes, she cried " FISHFINGERS!" :D:D

How about some game to start? We are having Partridge to start, followed by Venison on Christmas day, (I won't tell the kids they will be eating Bambi!), and when my bf's parents come up we are having fillet of beef....yummy!!!

I'll try and post the recipe for the chocolate trifle, it's really a treat ;-)

Lindsay
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Starters

Roasted butterflied tiger prawns with garlic butter
or
Blini's with smoked salmon and creme fraiche

Dessert

Chocolate bombe pudding served with creme fraiche

christmas eve we normally get take away so cant help you there.
for starter on christmas day we have Prawn Alabama, followed by a roast (everyone has turkey and pork and i have quorn in some form or another), and then either mince pie or christmas pud or both, followed by cheese and biscuits, and then liquer coffee and after eights, then for tea we have jelly and blancmange,
there is a lot of sitting around in between hand as no body can move :D :D
tanya

Avocado, goats cheese & tomato. Slice all the ingredients & layer them, so you have slice of avocado, slice of cheese then slice of tomato & drizzle it with dressing made of extra virgen olive oil & balsamic vinegar then sprinkle with sea salt & chopped basil. You can do them individual or on large platter buffet style :D
Christine, Spain.

OOh that sounds good!

Lindsay
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www.deliaonline.com its a lifesaver ;)