Christmas menu: your tips cooking a holiday meal
Many of you say that Christmas do not celebrate without the traditional log, the turkey with chestnuts or the foie gras and the seafood ... there are the Christmas regions, particularly in Alsace where Christmas unfolds like a ritual ...
For Muriel, Alsatian, Christmas is a big traditional festival, with mass at 18h then dinner with a big family table. As an aperitif, crémant and petit fours, seafood as a starter, a foie gras homemade, but avoid the turkey. After other delights, the frozen dessert is accompanied by bredele Christmas sweet) ...
For others, Christmas can be a festive occasion to change the rituals ...
Yvie proposes a Tahitian meal, with meat and fish cooked under the ashes in a banana leaf, accompanied by exotic vegetables ... Others suggest to replace the traditional turkey of Christmas by an Indian curry, or to stay in less exotic dishes, to cook a caviar or game bar, such as a porto pheasant, a deer with cranberries ...
Michèle definitely prefers verrines where sweet savory flavors are mixed with traditional foie gras. It also mixes slices of smoked salmon with thawed melon balls and mint leaves to change the classic smoked salmon ...
Isabelle's husband is doing his foie gras itself, and always associates it with new fruit flavors, like fig or apricot ...
Veronique, meanwhile, always provides a special feast for children, with raw ham and spätzele sautéed in the pan, and for dessert non-alcoholic ice cream and homemade truffles!
Traditional or not, the meal of Christmas is an opportunity to prepare original dishes, light enough, if it's evening or fish-based for more digestible meals. Treat your presentations, whatever you choose, because the sight of a pretty Christmas menu already sign a successful party!
For Muriel, Alsatian, Christmas is a big traditional festival, with mass at 18h then dinner with a big family table. As an aperitif, crémant and petit fours, seafood as a starter, a foie gras homemade, but avoid the turkey. After other delights, the frozen dessert is accompanied by bredele Christmas sweet) ...
For others, Christmas can be a festive occasion to change the rituals ...
Yvie proposes a Tahitian meal, with meat and fish cooked under the ashes in a banana leaf, accompanied by exotic vegetables ... Others suggest to replace the traditional turkey of Christmas by an Indian curry, or to stay in less exotic dishes, to cook a caviar or game bar, such as a porto pheasant, a deer with cranberries ...
Michèle definitely prefers verrines where sweet savory flavors are mixed with traditional foie gras. It also mixes slices of smoked salmon with thawed melon balls and mint leaves to change the classic smoked salmon ...
Isabelle's husband is doing his foie gras itself, and always associates it with new fruit flavors, like fig or apricot ...
Veronique, meanwhile, always provides a special feast for children, with raw ham and spätzele sautéed in the pan, and for dessert non-alcoholic ice cream and homemade truffles!
Traditional or not, the meal of Christmas is an opportunity to prepare original dishes, light enough, if it's evening or fish-based for more digestible meals. Treat your presentations, whatever you choose, because the sight of a pretty Christmas menu already sign a successful party!
