This year we are having Christmas dinner at home by ourselves and outsourced most of the preparations. Simple!
Starters: smoked salmon, foie gras & lentils, salade noël (really just mixed greens with star-shaped cut carrots).
Lobster ravioli in squid ink pasta, champagne cream sauce
Roasted veal tenderloin (rosemary, shallot), gratin dauphinois, carrots in maple-syrup, saute mushroom.
Gratin dauphinois au four.
Christmas log: dark chocolate mousse with raspberry filling
Many of the items have been purchased from Globus’s deli section.
We do not have a real Christmas tree this year as we will be going away soon. Instead, we found a home fragrance spray which provides that fresh light Christmas tree smell without any of the typical heavy cinnamon note.
This was our tree in 2010.
Past Christmas-related post: Christmas dinner 2009, Nor’easter 2009.