Christmas 2020

Candied Buddha's hand

Gingerbread cookies and game meat

Sugar cookies

Roasted chestnuts

Christmas eve

Appetizers

Caesar salad (with the original dressing as created by Caesar Cardini in Tijuana in the 1920s)

Smoked salmon and cured salmon (such a beautiful texture and a very fresh taste) with sour cream and dill sauce

Salted nuts

Parma sausage

Cheese breadsticks

Main

Turkey roast with chestnut stuffing

Hasselback potatoes

Broccoli

Braised cabbage

Cranberry sauce (pimping up the cranberry jam we made last year)

Dinner rolls

Desserts

Candied Buddha's hand (such a revelation!)

Candied clementines

Sugar cookies (with browned butter; the kids' favourites)

Yule log

Sweet nuts

Pulled Taffy


Christmas Brunch

Doughnuts

Brioche

Cranberry cream cheese danish (a crossover between two recipes (one for the danish itself, the other for the filling)

Apple turnovers

Pork paté with crackling (cretons)

Blood pudding

Christmas dinner

Game meat pie (with venison, rabbit, partridge, goose)

Cranberry sauce (pimping up the cranberry jam we made last year)

Braised cabbage

Pretzel rolls

Christmas pudding

Pecan butter tart

New year'S eve

appetizers

Salted nuts

Cured salmon

Cheese breadsticks

Main

Pork hock stew

Meat pie

Cranberry sauce

Braised cabbage

Dinner rolls

Desserts

Mini date and coconut cakes (gâteaux Reine Elizabeth)

Cream fudge (grandma's recipe)

Gingerbread cookies

Sweet nuts

Pulled Taffy

"Unemployed man pudding" (poudding chômeur)