Christmas and Sunday After Christmas menus

Here's the plan for Christmas (4 omnivores and one veggie)

Late morning/ lunchtime

Nibbly things (which I believe Tabitha is organising, but I will organise party pies of various persuasions)

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Mid afternoon

Potato and leek soup with grated cheese for those who partake of cheese

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Late afternoon

Vegetable platter with roast potatoes, peas, carrots, other veggies as I find them, perhaps with homemade stuffing balls and gravy and maybe a cheese sauce

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Early evening

Seafood platter for the omnivores (Langoustines, scallops, tempura prawns, mussels, salmon for three of us) with dip things

And for the veggie I have a selection of vegetarian munchy things such a ficken nuggets, veggie sticks, quorn popcorn and so on

Oh - and potato smiles :-)

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Later

Dessert: homemade Christmas pudding; mini pavlovas; chocolate mousse

What think you all?


Right. The Sunday-after-Christmas when we will be entertaining anything between around 20 to 30 of The Builder's kin in a rented cottage with unknown quality of kitchen kit (I will, however, take some of my own stuff). This is *just* a Sunday lunch ("just", she says, with a slightly hysterical laugh!). We have one child who only eats meat, raw vegetables, frozen peas still frozen and roast potatoes. He also eats cakes, biscuits, sweets, crisps, general junk. I don't think there are any vegetarians; no one else has replied to my request to be informed of dietary requirements .

1. Soup (more potato and leek? Other suggestions?)

2. Roast beef, roast chicken, large platter of roast vegetables, peas, beans, raw veg platter, stuffing, gravy. If we have Yorkshires I think they might have to be supermarket ones. I'm not sure about making enough for 30 in an unfamiliar oven!

3. And dessert. Another homemade Christmas pudding. More mini pavs? Something else?

All comments, suggestions, revisions gratefully received. Also a cold compress, brandy and other emergency resuscitation elixirs, potions and devices for the chef. Everyone else is on their own!!

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