Christmas Food

[becky23]

Hi all we are having a Christmas eve party at our house this year and was after some ideas for nibblies :shock: I wilol do all my usuals which are mainly pastries ie. sausage rolls, egg & bacon pies & savoury toast, but given the festive season I was wanting to be a little more adventurous I will be doing the home made ferreros has anyone else got any ideas for me please. thanks in advance
Oh and also why I think about it receipes for mocktails would be great also

[Trillian]

This is always a HUGE hit at parties;
Spinach cob loaf;
1 large round cob loaf
1/2 packet of frozen chopped spinnach
300ml sour cream
small packet philly cheese
spring vegetable or french onion soup packet (whatever you prefer)
Cut the top off the cob and hollow out the inside, leaving about 1inch thickness. Cut or tear the bread you removed in to pieces. Mix the spinnach (thawed), cream, philly and soup mix in a bowl and then pour into the hollow cob. place this in the oven till the mixture is warmed through. Put the bread pieces in the oven for the last 5 mins or so, just to lightly toast. Place on a platter and serve. YUMMO!!

sherieb

[kerry]

Christmas Pudding Biscuits

1 packet of chocolate royal biscuits
white chocolate (to melt)
1 tblspn copha
jaffas

* Take the biscuits out of the pack and put on a rack or tray (its ok to taste 1, or 2)
* Melt white chocolate and copha together
* using a tea spoon pour some melted chocolate mix over the top of the royals (so it looks like the sauced on a pudding)
* Before the chocolates sets, stick a jaffa on the top of each biscuit.

Cute, quick and easy.

[kerry]

Toblerone Dip

You can use anything to dip into this (fruit, lollies, spong finger biscuits, panetone(sp), fruit cake)... it is also very nice as a topping on ice cream or as an icing for a cake.

1 large block Toblerone (dark is best)
1/2 cup thickened cream
1-2 tblspoons countreux (or kaluha, or bourbon, or any spirit you like... OR leave out the alcohol for the kiddies sakes)

Melt all incredients together, mix and serve. If using a microwave it takes about 1 1/2 to 2 mins on high.

[Mumma2three]

tomato and basil pastry puffs. THese are DELISH. You get some puff pastry and cut them in circles (top of a glass is a good size). Then spread tomato paste on them, then one slice of tomato sliced pretty thinly and then chopped basil mixed with oil on top. Pop in the oven for a few mins, until edge of pastry looks brown . Sorry can't be more specific than this. They are soo yum, easy to prepare before and just throw in the oven. My sister makes them for every occasion (thus the vague recipe). xoxoxo

[Astrolady]

8-[

I have written down the recipe for the non-alcholic punch LMAO, can someone give me one with alcohol in it now

Love

[Tigergirl1980]

You could make the non alcoholic one and just add champers to it

[kirsty]

I seem to recall a dead easy one that I'm sure was just a bottle of nice fruity red wine & then lemonade added.

But like Bec said maybe just make the non-alcoholic one & add some champers or vodka or the like to that.

[Melinda]

I seem to recall one that involved soaking the fruit from the punch in the alcohol first..........

Perhaps my memory is a bit fuzzy on this because the punch was so good?! ROFL 8-[

[kirsty]

A bit off topic but has anyone else tried soaking watermelon with vodka & then eating it???

All I can say is YUMMY ~ especially on a hot day.

[Mother Goose]

A bit off topic but has anyone else tried soaking watermelon with vodka & then eating it???

All I can say is YUMMY ~ especially on a hot day.

Kirsty - what can I say? YES! I loved that when I was younger (don't drink now). I have friends who take it to the Boxing Day Cricket. ROFL! Vodka jelly is another good one

[AmandaJ]

I was after a recipe for a fruit and nut chrismas cake and instructions on how to decortate it. Thanks.

hugs xoxo

[~Britney~]

here is a good alcoholic punch its very potent so dont drink to much as i did and was sick all day

2 bottles of vodka
2 bottles of midori
1 bottle of malibu
4 bottles of champayne
1 bottle of tequlia
and 8 litres of pineapple or tropical juice!!!!!!!
:shock:

[Mumma2three]

Just saw one on the sunrise show on friday. It's watermelon punch. You juice watermelon until you have about 1.5kilos of juice. Then you add some blood red orange juice (not sure how much, sorry) then lots of ice and champagne. Or you can half fill a glass with champas and then add the juice. Sounded really simple and yum. The recipe is on their website!! xo

[Astrolady]

oooh that does sound nice, might check that one out

Love

[kerry]

Ok I have 1 for you... it is what I was drinking the night bigfoot was concieved.... (CONFESSION: between the 2 of us we polished off 3 batches of this.. don't know how we even managed anything else!)

Strewberry Champagne ****tail.
1 x punnet of strawberries
1/4 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup ****reux (sp) or grand mariner
1 bottle Champagne

Mash strawberries into a pulpy mess, add sugar and orange flavoured liquer. Leave in fridge for at least an hour but overnight is better.
Add Champagne to strawberry mix and serve.

[Berry]

The watermelon-based punch sounds fabulous.

Perhaps add pink champagne, chopped strawberries, pale ginger ale.

[Trillian]

*BUMP*

The Silly Season is nearly upon us again, so just bumping this for future reference