The Christmas Eve meal was a success! We even made enough food to have a leftover meal last night in our post-Christmas exhaustion!
I chose a featured meal from the Martha Stewart show. She demonstrated the roast pork with prunes and brown ale on her show last month. On her web site she had recommended side dishes and desserts to go along. We chose the brussel sprouts with gouda cheese. I made a traditional holiday scalloped potatoes as well.
We started with a simple green salad with cranberries and pine nuts. Then we served the pork and Brussell sprouts with scalloped potatoes. Finally, we served some chocolate covered pomegranate with mint brownies and fluffy cookies made with egg whites.
It was a perfect combination of traditional recipes along with new adventure for extra spice.
Here's to next year and the joy of creative cooking.
I chose a featured meal from the Martha Stewart show. She demonstrated the roast pork with prunes and brown ale on her show last month. On her web site she had recommended side dishes and desserts to go along. We chose the brussel sprouts with gouda cheese. I made a traditional holiday scalloped potatoes as well.
We started with a simple green salad with cranberries and pine nuts. Then we served the pork and Brussell sprouts with scalloped potatoes. Finally, we served some chocolate covered pomegranate with mint brownies and fluffy cookies made with egg whites.
It was a perfect combination of traditional recipes along with new adventure for extra spice.
Here's to next year and the joy of creative cooking.
