The Christmas 2007 menu

Well, another Christmas comes and goes.  I seem to have spent a lot of time in the kitchen - this is fine by me...  We had about 25 for drinks and nibbles on the Sunday, five for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and seven for boxing day.  The full breakdown as follows:

Christmas Eve Dinner:
Spud's rather excellent fish pie with peas
Vanilla ice cream with various toppings - crushed Maltesers, sloe gin (my favourite), blackberry vodka...

Christmas Day Breakfast:
Spud's take on Nigella's Christmas muffins

Christmas Day Lunch:
Foie Gras with Marsala shallots, frissé and hazelnuts (recipe to follow)
Roast Goose with all the trimmings
Mum's Christmas Pud

Boxing Day Buffet Lunch:
Cold meats - goose and ham, sausagemeat, pigs-in-blankets
Goats cheese tart (similar to this one)
Smoked salmon
Red cabbage coleslaw
Bubble-and-squeak cakes

Spud's kiwi-fruit pavlova
Winter fruit salad

The goose really was excellent - free range and organic from a farm near Tenterden in Kent, supplied by my local butcher The Crown Roast in Lingfield.  When I went to collect on Sunday, there was a sign up saying "Please be patient - we have 1,500 meat orders and 250 turkeys in the store room" - not bad for a village butcher, hey?  Let's hope Robert and his team had a restful Christmas!

We now have a mountain of left-overs to chomp through... and we're off to Devon at the weekend for my Grandmother's 90th birthday party!  See you in the New Year!

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