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What's on your menu this year?

Hen will be performing...

Entrees
Shots of scallop cerviche with ginger, lime chilli and corn..
Avocado and tomato wontons.

Mains
Beef or fish individual wellingtons, Beaujolais sauce and candied onions
Ham with blackberry and balsamic vinegar glaze.
Crispy Xmas potatoes with garlic and rosemary.
Baked tumble of Mediterranean vegetables, (sweet potato, zucchini, tomatoes, spinach and olives.)
Salad of leaves and onions.

Desert
Figgy pudding (Heston Blumenthal.)
Hidden secrets accompanied by either cream, ice-cream, or custard or all three.
Cheese plate, special.

Our sommelier will be on hand to match wines with courses, although he'll probably just get shitfaced on beer.

Tonight, leg of lamb, fresh green beans, husby's special mashed potatoes, crusty french rolls. Baked alaska for dessert.

Tomorrow I have no idea what they will be having. Plop plop fizz fizz is usually the order of the day.

I don't know about Christmas Day either... I'm cooking two applie pies; Lynn's already made a pagan ham and will cook two turkeys this morning and we're taking the traditional dinner (ours anyway - with Waldorf salad) to Bolokanang for the carers and the kids. But I don't think we get any of that... so my guess is, left-over steak and kidney pie from my birthday on Monday and as much wine as.... oh we forgot that! And I think everything's closed today. G+Ts all round then! Cheers!


ETA images:

My mother is making a roast beef dinner.

Our menu was

Canapés of Filo parcels stuffed with prawn and avocado or feta and coriander.

Chicken liver parfait with Melba toast.

Free range turkey with pigs in blankets and the traditional sausage meat stuffing, sprouts, roast parsnips, roast potatoes, braised red cabbage and a two litre vat of turkey gravy.

Dessert was an Italian ice cream bomb that was stuffed with cherries, glacé mandarin and apples and coated with warm dark chocolate.

In the evening we had a cheeseboard (with Stilton, obviously) gala pie, more chicken liver parfait, Christmas cake and mince pies.

It was brilliant, the clan went home at 10pm drunk and hoarse with singing.

Probably the best Christmas Day ever.

We had the traditional (well we started the tradition when we got married and hosted our first Christmas Day dinner) Roast Beef, roasted potatoes, some kind of cranberry/jello thingy, corn, freshbaked rolls, candied yams and I'm sure I forgot something. This might have been the last Christmas my son is home for Christmas. He's moving to Texas so future years are a mystery (aren't they anyway??).