New Year's Eve Dinner on Your End

derouen6 wrote:
Sorry. You asked for New Years Eve.

Nothing to be sorry about 'cause it's days of celebration:).

Well, I did some thinking, surveyed the fridge's contents, and came up with a menu for both the 31st and 1st.

New Year's Eve Dinner for 2

appetizer: smoked salmon rillettes on celery.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/smoked-salmon-rillettes

The recipe calls for the pate to be served on rye crackers but don't have any and we are trying to keep our grain intake down. I wanted to use endive leaves at first but there's plenty of celery in house.


fish main course: grilled fresh sardines on a bed of garlicky potato puree topped w/ Greek salad.
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/10/grilled-sardines-lemon-garlic-paprika.html

palate cleanser: Campari sorbet/gelato served in sherry glasses.

Great stuff when I can buy/find it. Clears the oily taste of the sardines out of mouth and allows a new start w/ ease. Would sub low sugar, high citrus grapefruit or lemon flav if Campari wasn't available.

soup course: monkfish and shellfish brodetto.
https://www.citarella.com/content/brodetto-with-clams-and-monkfish/

Still have not decided if I'll use country bread slices or bread crumbs in this dish; time will tell.

Dessert course: French style rice pudding.

The man is in rice pudding nostalgia land and even cream puffs stuffed w/ lemon curd and whipped cream will not stop him; I'm okay w/ that despite having cream puffs already made in the freezer. Lotsa uses for the puffs during the forthcoming winter birthdays and such. This is probably not yr Mommy's rice pudding as it's made w/ heavy cream instead of milk.

Brut Procesco served throughout. This is prolly a fantasy I'm having. The man can't celebrate w/o a vodka martini.

New Year's Day Dinner

Antipasti plate: various jarred veggie goods w/ homemade Spanish stye 'shrooms and smoked mini mozzarella balls.

Main course: Veal scallopini w/cappelinni, capers and lemon.

Some kind of a fruit dessert...maybe a wine poached pear?

Got a bottle of Taittinger to make me happy; the man still will have "wodka".

Sorry. You asked for New Years Eve.

Here in south Louisiana you must have pork, blackeye peas and cabbage.
Pork loin marinated in a cowboy candy, mustard emulsion then pit grilled, black eye peas cooked with bacon(pork fat rules), and broiled cabbage steaks rubbed with garlic and olive oil and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Probably sweet potato pie for desert.
This is New Year's Day.

Our plans for New Year's Eve will be at a friend's house. He's of Scottish descent and takes very seriously the traditions of Hogmanay and First Footing.

We're bringing the 5 lb Haggis.

He's also hosting a Burns Night on Jan. 25th. This is the year Herself and I will be educated in all things Scotland without having to use our passport. :B

New Year's Day will be our Prime Rib served at 4 pm with knoshing for the rest of the evening.

Happy New Year to all.

Nothing special. Maybe some snacks for the college football games.

NCWriter wrote:
Thinking about picking up Phillips crab cakes at Publix. They are frozen, easy to pan fry or bake in oven. Pricey but to me they taste better than most crab cakes restaurants serve.

Pick up a can of fresh backfin, lump crab which you can get at almost all grocery stores.

Fielder's Crab Cakes

1 lb crab meat, rinsed well
7 saltine crackers
1 TBL real mayo
1 tsp. ground mustard
1 egg, beaten well
1-2 tsp Old Bay Seasoning (your preference)
salt and pepper


Mix well and allow to sit for 10-15 minutes. Pat out into good size cakes. Bake 25-30 minutes at 350 or fry in a pan with a small amount of oil.

These just beat the daylights out of the Phillips ones you can get in the store.

Bumpyroad wrote:
TV dinner.
bumpy

...Swanson's or roadkill?...what w/ this being an RV forum TV has many meanings :B

TV dinner.
bumpy

Thinking about picking up Phillips crab cakes at Publix. They are frozen, easy to pan fry or bake in oven. Pricey but to me they taste better than most crab cakes restaurants serve.