Festive Food 2024

[Daisys and Diamonds]

so i brought one of these


it was better value than a punnet of normal radishes
....now im a bit scared
the thing is huge
a radish is usually so small and delicate

im going to make a fridge pickle for xmas using peeled ribbons and freeze the rest into cubes for curries and stews

edited to add turns out i have been spelling it wrong
daikon

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

the trouble now is i have the jars, the spices, the garlic, and the main ingrediants for my fridge pickles, radish, carrot and red onion but i didnt save the recepies and i dont want them all tasting the same and i cant find those particluar recepies

but i need to wait for dark to help myself to a few sprigs from the rosemary hedge over the road

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

i dont know where people find the energy to decorate their houses
its been busy and hot at work
i have postoned the watermellon lamb salad till next grocery shop and same with the stuffed onions as i could not get chicken or turkey mince
but tonight for xmas eve we had scallops and pinnaple slaw with pinnacolads, and a small mini single serve pavalova on top of a strawberry flan from work with cream in a can and a strawberry on top !
Gary ate it all !
so i just made the quick fridge pickled Californian onions im serving with breakfast

i think im too tired to make more so i will make the carrot and the dycon ones as im waiting on the pan bread tomorrow after ive made the salmon spread which will be breakfast
then i will make the sangria
i have almost forgotton to make the foux Mascarpone/ Crème fraîche stuff with the cream and sour cream for the pandoro i'll serve with strawberries and a late harvest as breakfast pudding (dessert)

then i will put the lamb leg in the slowcooker
i think for lunch we will just have brandy snaps and then have tea about 5

good luck everyone
Merry Christmas

 

[stracci2000]

I made pizzelles. Gotta use that pizzelle maker once a year!
Homage to my grandmother who made the best.
(The plate is 195 years old!)

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I made pizzelles. Gotta use that pizzelle maker once a year!
Homage to my grandmother who made the best.
(The plate is 195 years old!)

OMG both (well i should say all three and include Grandma) are beautiful
im not sure what it is but i have my hand out !!!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Merry Christmas everyone
very pleasent weather here on Christmas morning but it feels like it will be hot latter on

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Fluffy says i only like scallpos when it comes straight off my daddy's plate
and she has had all their xmas jimbo

never mind i have some i can defrost for BuffBall for xmas lunch
he is outside looking a bit lonely as all his many cat buddies must be at their respective houses' for Xmas breakfast
now i must get the bread on for our breakfast

i had a taste of the pickled onions, so strong , i hope Gary likes them

 

[stracci2000]

im not sure what it is

Hi Daisy, pizzelles are Italian waffle cookies.
It's an easy recipe with lots of butter. You gotta have the special pizzelle machine to make them. It's similar to a waffle maker.

 

[finerthings]

Merry Christmas to you in your part of the world @Daisys and Diamonds! Hope it's not too hot and you enjoy your Christmas!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Merry Christmas to you in your part of the world @Daisys and Diamonds! Hope it's not too hot and you enjoy your Christmas!

not too hot yet, just pleasent so far thank you
but the meat is in the slow cooker so even that heats the house up in no time
merry christmas to you are your part of the world

we had a christmas miracle here
not a fantstic flavour but it has potential via some pesto or garlic ..maybe cheese but it might burn ?
my dry yeast (unopened) was 3 years past expiry (-i just used twice as much and double the sugar) and gave it a bit more time and it rose like a dream

and my flour although not old was a bit odd as it seemed very lumpy when i opened it - i think from when we thought the heat pump was on the blink over the winter and the lounge and kitchen seemed to get very damp

our frying pan is old and needs replacing but this did not burn, i actually fall alseep in front of you tube and it did not burn. and woke up and smelt bread

i cooked it on 2 on the electric hob, it broke up turning it but we were going to cut it into chunks anyway, as it got a bit stuck
i didnt have a lid so used tinfoil with some olive oil spray

served it with the cold smoked salmon spread i made

and Gary liked his pickled onions he said they were plesently hot -(thanks to the chillie) and he ate everything and is almost finished his sangrea

 

[Dandi]

I busted out a lemon meringue pie yesterday (it's now Boxing Day in Australia) and a heap of cupcakes for gifts. Merry Christmas!

 

[jaysonsmom]

Traditional Christmas Day dinner in our family: Prime Rib Roast, Creamed spinach, Garlic Mashed Potatoes and 4 cheese Mac N Cheese. I tried something different this year in that I made a Habanero Jalapeno Pepper Jack Mac N Cheese, so it was nice and spicy!

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Made pastry, batch #2. Making chunky tortiere today and quiche tomorrow.

cheers--Sharon

 

[monarch64]

I made pizzelles. Gotta use that pizzelle maker once a year!
Homage to my grandmother who made the best.
(The plate is 195 years old!)

Amazing!!!

 

[monarch64]

Our family has become smaller. We (7 of us total) went to a Japanese restaurant this year so none of us had to bear the burden of hosting. I was so tickled at the decor on my sushi rolls. (They were fantastic, even though I’m not a sushi connoisseur.)

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

i think we just ate half the pav that was ment to be for new year !!

 

[VRBeauty]

No pictures, but…

We were asked to bring dessert for this year’s Christmas Eve gathering, and I saw it as the perfect opportunity to make something from a little book of chocolate deserts that I’ve had for years… but never actually used! I made chocolate mousse served in vanilla custard sauce. It was a hit(!) and since I made way too much, my hubby and have enjoyed it for the past two days as well!

I haven’t made chocolate mousse in decades - literally - but I realized as I was making it why this somewhat complicated recipe didn’t phase me in the least. I first learned how to make chocolate mousse in high school, not in home ec (which I managed to avoid), but in French class! My French teacher apparently believed that there was no point in learning French if you didn’t also learn a bit about French cuisine. So we sampled Camembert and Brie and baguettes; we learned all about the glories of croissants (though it would be many years before I actually tasted one) and we learned to make coq au vin, chocolate mousse, and spinach soufflè. Thea few years later, the latter impressed the heck out of my college housemates!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

finnaly got around to making my fridge pickles, had some nice wild fennal flowers
did a dycon and carrot, an onion and cucumber and an onion and a dycon
could not fond the corriander seeds i saw in the cupbaord yesterday so held off on the carrot
froze the rest of the cubed dycon to go into curries etc

 

[dk168]

No photos, sorry.

The fried milk was not a success as I made it too solid to start with by adding too much corn starch. The resultant fried milk was too heavy and solid when I bit into it, and not soft and silky. Hey ho.

Roast duck was a success, so was the duck pancake the next day, noodle soups (2 meals) and fried rice (another 2 meals).

There may be some duck still in the freezer!

Roast pork this year.

DK

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

just the other day at work we were talking about pavalova and how its still xmas into March (so still pav season) -then its Easter ! another pavy !!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

so i dont like xmas fruit mix, i dont like fruit cake i dont like fruit mince tarts
but at work customers were saying our xmas fruit mince tarts were the best in town (at $5 each they better be ! they are large and deep like they are made in a muffin tin) so the week after xmas the bakery did another batch and i got one and chucked it in the freezer, i did notice they did small amazingly Christmassy in all the best ways
so this week the kids are finally all back at school so its not xmas any longer


so i just fished it out and heated it up (i think you usually eat them cold)
we eat fruit pies hot down home so it made sense to me to heat it up
it was so good, i also dont like rasins, sultaners or currents but the dried fruit was so juicy and plump and moist and it smelled like brandy and spice
they look similar to this


sad as i cant find a photo on works facebook but i dont have a facebook account - we leave the button on the till all tear around
i think the vinnila icecream i served it with made it amazing -Gary had what we call an apple pasty (we are running out of buttons on the till) -its an apple turnover the same price as a mince (meat) pasty