"Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
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> What would you make for a christmas dinner just
> for two people...

For Christmas Eve (the big celebration here), we're having duck -- duck
breasts, to be exact, with some sort of port sauce, an onion and dried
cherry confit to go with it, wild rice pancakes, green salad with sauted
mushrooms, and probably traditional Danish rice a l'almond (cold rice
porridge mixed with whipped cream and slivered almonds, served with cherry
sauce -- it's nice) or maybe brandied figs with whipped cream. Probably no
starter. Nothing too taxing.

We have family coming on the 26th, and we'll have brasied short ribs, mashed
potatoes, salad, and probably an apple cake. The starter's still under
debate.

Company on New Year's Eve, too. We'll be having venison with a dried cherry
and pinot noir sauce, butternut squash timbales, probably green beans,
salad. Lemon tart for dessert and, if I get really motivated, hot chocolate
truffles (chocolate ganache rolled in cinnamon sugar and then briefly deep
fried -- seriously addictive and altogether splendifferous). Probably
gougere and phyllo pastry filled with duxelles for starters. It's a long
night, gotta keep the food coming. Oh, and of course the traditional
"kransekage" pyramid -- towering rings of baked marzipan cookies -- to go
with the champagne at midnight.

Crap, I need to make my shopping list. With the stores here closed from the
24th through 27th, there's no time to procrastinate!

-j