Gourmet Food on a Budget - Recipes, Methods, and Meal Planning - Ever Forward, Ever Flavorful
Recipes and tips for foods you might want to serve for Winter holiday celebrations, special occasions, or just because you want something a little fancy.
Roast goose is a welcome change from the usual holiday fare. Goose is a good choice for a smaller gathering. The fat can be saved and used in a variety of dishes. This recipe is part of my Dicken's Christmas Dinner Menu.
Fruit Chestnut Stuffing and Christmas Salad go very well with a roast goose for a Dicken's Christmas dinner
Christmas Plum Pudding is a dense, spiced English dessert made from suet, breadcrumbs, eggs, brown sugar, raisins, and citron. It steams for four hours and comes to the table flaming, with a bowl of cold whiskey hard sauce on the side. Equal parts suet, eggs, and sugar make the formula easy to remember, and the flavor only improves as the pudding rests.
So, this morning, I got a while hair up my rear. Whilst thinking about making waffles for breakfast, I looked in my pantry and spied a jar of peanut butter, a can of Spanish peanuts in their skins, and a box of Dark Hershey's cocoa. Reese's peanut butter cups jumped to mind.
The choice of peanut butter is important in this recipe. Don't go for the extra cheap peanut butter that has no flavor. Since the recipe has Spanish peanuts, you will want to use creamy style peanut butter, Jif is my favorite.
This Apple Cream Cheese Mystery Tart is a rich dessert with a surprising crust and filling. It's perfect for a fancy dinner, maybe Christmas. It's no mystery that this delicious apple cream cheese tart is simple to make from cream cheese, apples, and Panko bread crumbs.
We celebrate the First Sunday of Advent by trimming the Christmas tree and decorating the house.
This is fast becoming a staple Thanksgiving dessert. I don't like pumpkin pie, and mince-pie is wonderful for Christmas, so this has the one for this holiday. It's very simple to make with only a few ingredients that you probably already have on hand.
You will want to use Panko breadcrumbs because they are large and very dry. Broken up bread will not absorb enough of the juices to make a nice top on this. Breadcrumbs that come in a can will not work either, as they are too small, and you would just have a cranberry pudding instead of a Brown Betty.