Temptation!
Christmas is approaching fast
and we are still planning our main Christmas meal. We like duck, but duck has
almost disappeared in the Cape since the demise of the Duck Farm. We are not going to give you a recipe this
week, but some different suggestions for the meal. Of course many of you will be doing turkey,
but if you look at what other nations do there might be alternatives, all for
special occasions
A Beef Wellington done
well can be superb. Or get your butcher
to do you a huge rib of beef roast. And
in France and other areas of Europe they do a whole fish as their celebration
dish, so why not a whole salmon, poached or a ready sliced Smoked salmon, or
even local Salmon Trout. A fish braai is
always good if you can get really fresh fish. A luxury seafood medley is always a favourite
A roast of pork stuffed
with chestnuts and topped with apricots would be sensational. And of course a deboned leg of lamb is now a
huge luxury given that the price of lamb is nearly more expensive than steak. Or a Crown Roast of Lamb with stuffing in the
centre
We may do a Picanha steak
and this can also be done on the Braai. Recipes for all these can be found on the Internet, but we would
recommend you look at professional chefs’ recipes to get the best result
And of course you need to
look at serving special vegetables like asparagus, duck fat potatoes, fine
green beans, baby carrots, even Brussels sprouts for those who like them
And if you don’t want to
cook, then we are finding the supermarkets are coming up with some pretty
amazing ready to cook dishes that just need popping into the oven
We hope you have a
wonderful meal. And for those of you not celebrating Christmas, we hope the
holiday season is enjoyable, fun, restful and rewarding, with great food too
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2018
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