Planned Menus

Planned menus for past events.

Christmas 2022

Christmas Nibbles

Bread

Panettone, crackers.

Fruit

Dried apricots and apples.

Meats

Hardboiled eggs, salami.

Pickled vegetables

Olives, cocktail onions, tomato chutney.

Drinks

Mulled wine.

Christmas Dinner

Meat

Roast chicken with stuffing and kilted sausages.

Vegetables and Sides

Roast potatoes, roast honey carrots, peas, roast parsnips, balsamic roast onions, roast pumpkin, citrus beans, Yorkshire puddings.

Dessert

Christmas pudding.

Plan of Attack 

Christmas Eve

Make Yorkshire pudding batter.
Wrap sausages in bacon.
Parboil and salt the potatoes and parsnips.
Make carrot glaze, chop & toss carrots.
Boil green beans, toss in orange juice & mustard combo.
Make stuffing: boil rice in soup powder, then stir through herbed breadcrumbs.

Christmas Day 

Cook Yorkshire puddings.
Bake sausages on tray.
Roast the potatoes, parsnips, and carrots.
Make onions.
Steam peas.
Stuff, glaze, and roast chicken.
Boil and fire pudding.
Steam peas.

Thanksgiving 2023

Meat

Roast turkey.

Vegetables and Sides

Stuffing, roast pumpkin, roast potato, roast carrots, balsamic cranberry-nut green beans, gravy.

Dessert 

Almond pear filo tart.