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

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Ostrich is great! It's a red meat, and you cook it medium rare like steak (no salmonella with ostrich). It tastes mostly like beef, not chicken. Yet it has the fat content and calories of turkey. I love it!