Christmas Dinner

[petermarcus]

Christmas dinner, pics and description below:



Every year I usually do a light theme. One year it was "wrapped" foods (the main course being sauteed buffalo and wild mushrooms wrapped in crepes), last next year it was Christmas Red and Green (main course was ostrich with pistachios). This year, it was a castaway theme. Loose, but enough to tie things somewhat together.

Pics didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, but then I had my hands a little full cooking for seven :)

First course:


Baked buttered filo around cold smoked salmon and cream cheese. Red caviar garnish. The idea was the filo would represent the SOS note the castaway wanted to send.

Second course:


Sushi rice wrapped around prosciutto ham, on a bed of prosciutto, with a sweet lime dipping sauce. The idea is the sushi rice and prosciutto represents the bottle with the note in it.

Third (main) course:


Chicken broth risotto mixed with celery and a bit of coconut, alongside lightly spiced pan-seared Chilean sea bass. A sweet lemon sauce was also included, but seems to be missing from the picture. The idea is the risotto with celery represents the island the castaway is on, waiting for his rescue.

Fourth (dessert) course:


Frozen orange mousse, layered over crushed chocolate, with a chocolate coating. There was a little paper sail garnish that didn't come out in the pic too well, but represented the castaway's rescue.

Comments

[sherahi.livejournal.com]

We all know you got the 'wrapped'/'presents' theme from Martha Stewart's first cook book called 'Entertaining'...its infamous. :)

HOWEVER your interpretation of the castaway theme was VERY original and adorable and unique! How neat! But it looked DELICIOUS! *clap clap clap* well done! Well done! VERY impressive. WOW. :9

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm not much of a Martha fan. I actually got the "wrapped" idea from a FoodTV episode about a chef cooking for a friend's wedding. Ironically, the recipe that grabbed me was cream cheese and caviar wrapped in smoked salmon and tied with a blanched leek, but I ended up not using that one then. But, two years later, I kinda resurrected most of the ingredients for my first course :)

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[sherahi.livejournal.com]

And where do you think that chef got HIS idea from, eh? Eh? :)

I don't think I've ever had cavier. I should do that sometime.

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[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

It's good, but it's very salty and very fishy. Your penguins would love it ;-P

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[sherahi.livejournal.com]

Oh 'my' penguins have eaten salmon caviar and smelt caviar on occasion...that stuff is a huge mess to clean up. sticks on everything.