Christmas Pudding |
A Christmas Eve Dinner for 4
Baked Ham
Grilled Lobster with Garlic Butter Sauce
Macaroni Cheese
Petits Pois à la Française
Christmas Pudding
You'll see that last night's dinner was pretty much my standard pre-Christmas ham dinner, minus the spiced peaches I usually have. No reason for me omitting them, I just forgot!
Sandra received this beautiful organic ham from her work (they received chocolates and cherries too - jealous!), which formed the base of our meal.
5.3 kg organic ham from Donati's |
Slices of Ham |
Apart from the lack of spiced peaches, it wasn't quite a standard dinner, because we also had - say what?! - lobster tails! Oooh... pretty!
Shiny lobster tails |
I'd never cooked lobster before, but after some googling I cooked them like this:
I sliced through the middle of the soft shell underneath the tails, flicked them open and cut them off.
Preparing the lobsters |
Boiling lobsters |
Boiled lobsters |
While all that lobster and ham was cooking, we made some French style peas...
Peas |
Mac & Cheese |
Champagne! |
Dinner! |
Grilling! |
Grilled and buttered |
For dessert, we dug into that Christmas pudding I made at The Langham's Pudding Making Class. I'd steamed it for 2 hours, and served it with custard.
Mmm... custard |
The pudding was very different from my normal Roux Brothers' Christmas pudding. The Langham's was very light and cakey, with a low proportion of fruit to dough. We all liked it (I think my folks loved it!) but I found myself craving a traditional rich and fruity, boozy and suet-filled Christmas pudding.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
8 comments
Merry Christmas, missy! Your eve dinner looks amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteWith leftover ham I must at least once have ham patties (like fish patties with finely chopped ham) served with parsley sauce, eggs benedict, and ham steaks on the barbecue served with a pineapple ring (as that is what my late dad used to do!)
ReplyDeleteHam sandwiches with ham used instead of bread also goes down well ;-)
Happy Eating!
Lobsters and mac and cheese? Darnit, I wish my family had gone to your place for Christmas Eve dinner. Instead, we went to a restaurant where I, my mum, and grandma all ordered the tuna "rare", and were served brick-like overcooked hunks of flavourless protein.
ReplyDeleteSigh.
Your food looks vastly more magnificent!
Celeste - Thank-you! And Merry Christmas to you too. :D
ReplyDeleteMs Fifikins - Mmm good idea! I vaguely recall Nigella serving parsley sauce with ham in HTE, must double check my old HTE blog lol!
Hannah - Eek, overcooked tuna is such a disappointment! I hope your Christmas feasting was better than your Christmas eve! Lobster and mac and cheese is SO fabulous. I read a recipe once for mac and cheese with lobster in it. Way decadent.
xox Sarah
Merry Christmas lovely :)
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful feast! (Trivia: Bollinger is James Bond's choice of Champagne.)
L. xoxo
I cant believe how much that lobster costs. I almost bought a 5oz tail for 5.99US. It was frozen though and not from US waters so I passed. Im glad you enjoyed it. It looks delish.
ReplyDeletePenny - Thank-you! Hope you had a great one. :)
ReplyDeleteLisa - Yay! I love Bollinger too.
Randi - Yeah I nearly had a heart attack when I heard the price of the lobster tails, lol. I think they're more expensive in Australia in general, but I'm pretty sure they also jack up the prices before Christmas. I've since seen lobster tails for $70/kg, so 30% cheaper!
xox Sarah