Christmas menu ideas 2012

[Phteven]

We'll be putting the crab traps out every day for the week leading up to Christmas by Christmas day they will have vomited all their sand and we'll boil them to death and eat them. Glad I'm not a turkey or seafood.
Beyond killing crabs we have a no cooking rule for Christmas so it will be other cold seafood, some sashimi if it looks good at the fish co-op or we have caught a good sashimi fish, salads and we might let my sister bake some bread to eat it with. Or we might not.
Pavlova.

And an afternoon playing croquet.

[AnyDream]

I'm inventing a layered frozen icecream dessert, involving rum-soaked raisins, almonds, coffee, hmmmm what else... Still inventing...

And that's it. Someone else can cook this year. I will be busy "having a colour scheme".

[LionsandBears]

I'm inventing a layered frozen icecream dessert, involving rum-soaked raisins, almonds, coffee, hmmmm what else... Still inventing...
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Have you finalised the recipe MD? I need ideas. We're doing separate menus for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I have a bit of soaked fruit I could make into an ice-cream thingy. Or do a summer berry type pudding.

menu so far:
Christmas Eve:
entree: ?? May just do dips and nibblies

Main: slow cooked roast lamb, gravy, mint sauce, with roast potatoes & salad

Dessert: ?? I want to do something light.

Christmas Day:
entree: Snapper and prawns with salad

Main: Turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce with roast veggies and greens

Dessert: Christmas pudding; profiteroles with chocolate Cointreau sauce