- Pork loin with prosciutto and apples
- Roast pheasant with oyster dressing
- Potato strudel
- Sweet potato gnocchi with sage and chestnuts
- Saffron shrimp risotto
- Creamed chard
- Chive biscuits
- Beet and apple salad
- Tourtiere
- Trifle
- Fruitcake
- Butterscotch pie
- Pumpkin Pie
I suspect we'll be having goose if a pheasant fails to make an appearance.
What's on your Christmas menu? Are you a traditionalist or do you change it up from year to year?
Sounds yummy!! What is strudel??
ReplyDeleteWe have Prime Rib, Yorkshire pudding, spinach soufflé, Caesar salad, some kind of potatoes yet to be determined and fresh fruit and chocolate fondue for desert.
What is potato strudel I meant to ask, I know what strudel is.
ReplyDeleteWe are having a Martha Stewart brined turkey with the trimmings. Your menu looks wonderful, what a variety! Do you find it hard to source the ingredients? My kitchen is not at all well stocked in the spices, herbs, liquor departments and saffron is something I've never seen here in Canada. Where do you get it?
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I couldn't find was the bottled chestnuts so I'm just not using them. In Thunder Bay, you could buy saffron at the grocery store but I usually bought it at the bulk zone because it was cheaper. There it came in a little square plastic container. At the Superstore it came in one of the regular spice jars. I still have some so haven't checked around here for it yet.
ReplyDeleteSome things for Christmas dinner are traditional: cinnamon apples, pumpkin pie, lemon pie, my grandmother's roll recipe. mulled cider. One year I found a crown roast on sale, and wish I could have continued that, but alas, they're too pricey. Otherwise, it's usually ham. This year I have an abundance of sweet potatoes, so I'll scallop those instead of whites.
ReplyDeleteOther food traditions: pepperoni bread and a variety of Christmas cookies for Christmas Eve, and Scotch eggs for Christmas brunch. This year I'll make a persimmon pie for Christmas breakfast as well, and see if that becomes our newest tradition.