Christmas Eve was our traditional English fry-up. Poached eggs, lean sausages, bacon, baked beans, mushrooms, tomato, onions, spinach and arugula and a Scotch bap. Plenty of brown sauce and a crisp white wine.
Christmas Day dinner was mini beef Wellington's with seasoned oven roasted vegetables; potatoes, carrots and parsnips and a full bodied red wine.
Boxing Day, we hosted a party at our house with close friends. A selection of cheese with biscuits and crackers, red wine salami, an array of dried fruit, olives, wasabi peas, olive spread with dill and onion bread, that was lightly toasted, Fortnum's Smackerels, green goddess dip with multigrain corn chips, a selection of my own baking and chocolate ginger thins... which are like those after dinner mint thins... After 8:00's however instead are filled with a lovely syrupy ginger filling. Non-alcoholic beverages and wine were on hand.
All guests left with a homemade pumpkin loaf and an assortment of my holiday baking.
It was a lovely Christmas, shared with those near and dear ones, and I hope yours was too. - JD
It was a lovely Christmas, shared with those near and dear ones, and I hope yours was too. - JD