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sbucking


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muffy wrote:

its complicated LOL!


24th and 25th we have berts parents and my bro, sil and thor.  then on the 26th and 27th, we add an additional family - berts cousin, his wife and their daughter who is ceciles age.

bert arranged all the menu's and is doing all the cooking except desserts.  before each main meal, we serve champagne and hors d'oeuvres - i have about a dozen stuff prepared but i dont know what is being served before each meal yet.  including: home cured salmon with blinis, asian wings, pot stickers, mini hot ham and cheese bites, homemade french onion dip, eggplant caviar, quesadillas, ham in puffed pastry, hot white bean and sun dried tomato dip, gosh there is more can't remember off the top of my head LOL.

24th lunch - we always eat at the outdoor christmas market - potato pancakes and applesauce, sausages, spiced hot wine, sweet crepes etc.

24th dinner - champagne and hors d'oeuvres,  scallops to start, a fancy version of shepherds pie for main (with cheek and butt of beef slow cooked with black truffles and potato puree with black truffles, glazed carrots and turnips and other root veggies, a mache salad (like watercress), traditional "buche de noel" cakes (cakes looking like logs LOL)

25th breakfast - cinnamon rolls (alton browns recipe - you make the night before!) and alsatian apple cake.

25th lunch - champagne and hors d'oeuvres, beets roasted in a salt crust served with aged balsamic to start, roasted chapon (fancy chicken) with gratin of blets (a green veg like chinese cabbage) and celery root with chestnuts, carrots and bacon.  dessert - salted butter caramel and chocolate ganache tarte with fleur de sel.

25th dinner - homemade chicken noodle soup

26th breakfast - pancakes and bacon

26th lunch  - easy spaghetti with many sauces (fresh tomato and basil, ham and cream, pesto homemade, broccoli and bacon, eggplant tomato) - serve yourself.

26th dinner - champagne and hors d'oeuvres, french pumpkin (like acorn squash) soup with thyme gruyere toasts to start, ham roasted with maple syrup glaze, baked macaroni with 3 cheeses, sauteed green cabbage with juniper berries.  dessert - cheesecake with red fruits.

27th breakfast - eggs, sausage, rosti potato

27th lunch - still more hors d'oeuvres *sigh* boiled poularde de bresse (another fancy chicken) served with a cream sauce, rice pilaf, sauteed carrots, fennel and snow peas.  dessert - apple pie.

then everyone leaves my house and i lay down for the next few days and rest!

 


Oh my!  Sounds fabulous, but also like an outrageous amount of work.  How lucky are your guests!!!

 



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I'm going to Megan's. See you soon!

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Sonya wrote:

I'm going to Megan's. See you soon!



me too. Want to meet in NYC and we'll fly together from there?



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Alyssa wrote:

 

Sonya wrote:

I'm going to Megan's. See you soon!



me too. Want to meet in NYC and we'll fly together from there?

 



 



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maybe if we all pool our money together we can charter a plane and all go to Megan's.  That sounds wonderful.



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My family is so boring compared to most of you.  We always go the traditional route (well traditional for us I guess).  Ham, roast beef, potato salad, macaroni salad, dinner rolls, a bean casserole, and lots of appetizers and desserts.  We only do a dinner on Christmas Eve so there is no stress for any other meals thank goodness.  I may pick up some fresh shrimp.  I saw someone was having that and that sounds like a nice change for us. smile



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Can I get in on the trip to Megan's??? LOL!

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i only wish you all could come here to visit!  seriously - i would have bert cook for you all!!!

he is so funny - i have gotten him hooked on the top chef shows - he loves the creativity and presentations and it really inspired his cooking.  like for the shepherds pies the 24th - he bought these stainless steel rings so he could plate the meat/puree in perfect circles on each plate.

i m blessed to have a man talented and passionate about cooking.

but i did have a what the f#ck moment at the butchers this morning... the chapon for the 25th - to serve 6 adults and 4 kids - that alone cost EUR 200 (over $250)!!!  its just a freaking chicken!!!  (and to be honest, i wonder if it will taste *so* much better than a normal roast chicken - i mean, how CAN it???)

good thing he and i dont exchange gifts - i just "bought" him a chicken as his christmas pressie LMAO!




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