The Holiday Season is always the busiest time of the year for everyone especially for me. It's work, party, play, and planning for the Christmas Dinners.
This year I held my Christmas-Holiday Party between Christmas and New Year. I figure, I personally am done with all the Christmas parties to go to, the shopping, our own family Christmas Eve dinner, and am ready to tackle my own event.
Here is what I made for the Christmas Party. You can prepare the sauces and desserts a day in advance. On the day is mostly assembling the food. Let me share with you what I did:
The gingerbread house above was store-bought whereby I added the marshmallow tree, the gummy Santas, Snoopy and candy canes bought from a nice candy store (Dylan's). I made my own egg white frosting with plenty of confectioner's sugar that I beat till it was stiff to use as extra snow and for gluing the candy trees and decor to the house. I happen to have always had the Christmas ornament of a Real Estate Agent and a Sold sign; so I stuck them down on 2 corners of the house this year instead of hang it as Christmas tree ornament.
For hors'd'eouvres, I ordered and bought already peeled and cooked lobsters and served them in individual containers with my own sauce.
On the left were lobster meat as well individually served with yuzu emulsified butter with some yuzu tea marmalade (available from Japanese grocery stores) topped with minced chives. This sauce has a wonderful citrus taste and a little sweet.
Served surrounded by the 2 versions of the lobster hors'd'eouvres is the Armagnac soaked prunes stuffed with D'Artagnan foie-gras. A chef pastry cake decorating bag with a wide serrated tip was used to stuff the foie gras into the overnight-soaked prunes.
One of the desserts I served was the poached pears in wine with homemade chocolate ganache:
Some of the poached pears were served on a pedestal dish with my homemade egg less butter-chocolate chip cookies.
And the party was joyful as everyone got full. I was delighted to share my culinary ideas amidst the busiest time of the year. H A P P Y N E W Y E A R T O Y O U A L L!
Should you want the recipes of the food in this party, please let me know.
I also ordered a chocolate lemon cake from LA Burdick
www.burdickchocolate.com/Pastry/chocolate-lemon-cake.aspx
It's my favorite cake and you can order this. Imagine chocolate layer cake with fresh lemon cream inside.
Ingredients were mostly from wholefoodsmarket.com
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This year I held my Christmas-Holiday Party between Christmas and New Year. I figure, I personally am done with all the Christmas parties to go to, the shopping, our own family Christmas Eve dinner, and am ready to tackle my own event.
Here is what I made for the Christmas Party. You can prepare the sauces and desserts a day in advance. On the day is mostly assembling the food. Let me share with you what I did:
The gingerbread house above was store-bought whereby I added the marshmallow tree, the gummy Santas, Snoopy and candy canes bought from a nice candy store (Dylan's). I made my own egg white frosting with plenty of confectioner's sugar that I beat till it was stiff to use as extra snow and for gluing the candy trees and decor to the house. I happen to have always had the Christmas ornament of a Real Estate Agent and a Sold sign; so I stuck them down on 2 corners of the house this year instead of hang it as Christmas tree ornament.
For hors'd'eouvres, I ordered and bought already peeled and cooked lobsters and served them in individual containers with my own sauce.
Above are the lobsters with miso-butter sauce, topped with black caviar and minced chives for decor. |
One of the desserts I served was the poached pears in wine with homemade chocolate ganache:
Should you want the recipes of the food in this party, please let me know.
I also ordered a chocolate lemon cake from LA Burdick
www.burdickchocolate.com/Pastry/chocolate-lemon-cake.aspx
It's my favorite cake and you can order this. Imagine chocolate layer cake with fresh lemon cream inside.
Ingredients were mostly from wholefoodsmarket.com
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