Here you start with a small gift ... cooking for guests, a julecake flavored with cinnamon and ginger with my ... ... with small candied orange tag placeholder ...
Here you see the table under construction ... I finished 5 minutes before the arrival of the guests ... I thought that I would not be able to do in time! Forgive
dishes but it was a purely organizational due to the high influx of relatives!
Here are some photos ... you say, I make you hungry?
... ................. tasty snacks savory finger food for a cocktail!
(thank Sigrid -Cavoletto and its "Gifts greedy" for ideas)
- biscuits Provencal thyme and lavender with spicy yogurt sauce
- swivels chives
- of pesto croissant Cad
- cake mini salmon and thyme and Aromatic arugula mousse
- leeks and ricotta cake
- mini cheesecake with stewed pears with gorgonzola cheese with black pepper
- in yogurt flavored extra virgin olive oil
- pancakes to 5 vegetables
- duck in orange (the CUG!)
- cheese with stewed pears with pepper sauce, green tomato jam with lemon and rose wine and thyme sauce
- pandoro melted chocolate
And as guests received gifts candied orange peel dark chocolate, cookies with nuts, chocolate truffles and extra virgin olive oil flavored with hot pepper.
And now through 2011 only 4 jumps in the pan ... I'm too tired to cook yet! ;-)))
And what have you done? Have you cooked or you have guests?
Christmas Eve or Christmas dinner? Or both ...(ehm. .... no, no ... I swear! What, you saw me .... where?? No, not me !!!)???