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Post by kokonutwoman on Nov 30, 2008 9:15:36 GMT 12
What's for din din? This time of the year I always plan my menu for open house.
This year similar to last.
Hot Dishes: Supa suey, brown rice, roast chicken and rolled turkey
Cold Dishes: Selection of Salads, cold cuts and sea food
Desserts: Traditional Samoan pineapple Pie, trifle, my favourite-Jelly and hopefully homemade ice cream
Later cheese and lots of wine and maybe the odd coffee.
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Post by Lux on Nov 30, 2008 10:45:54 GMT 12
What's for din din? This time of the year I always plan my menu for open house. This year similar to last. Hot Dishes: Supa suey, brown rice, roast chicken and rolled turkey Cold Dishes: Selection of Salads, cold cuts and sea food Desserts: Traditional Samoan pineapple Pie, trifle, my favourite-Jelly and hopefully homemade ice cream Later cheese and lots of wine and maybe the odd coffee. yum Yum YUM! I love pineapple pie. Do you do marinated/raw fish koko, how do you do yours? Christmas Dinner Hot Dishes: Roast Pork and Roast chicken with all the trimmings. Paua fritters and mussel fritters. Cold Dishes: Ham off the bone, salads, seafood salads, smoked fish, crayfish, Desserts: Trifle, Ambrosia, Brandy Snaps, Pavlova (home made) Fresh fruit platter. After dinner: Chocolates, candy, home made Christmas cracker fun! We're looking at catering for 12 adults and 14 kids this year. |
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Post by kokonutwoman on Nov 30, 2008 16:02:13 GMT 12
Yummy....paua and mussels fritters umm I can almost taste them.
Would love to give you the recipe for pineapple pie but I make it on sight and feel so I never really know how much ingredients actually go in except for the 4 eggs
We're having raw fish this year, I use terakihi diced, (but any meat fish is fine), medium diced onions, tomatoes and cucumbers optional. Mix diced ingredients first with fresh lemon or lime juice then mix in slightly watered down coconut cream and refrigerate over night is best but can be done in the morning.
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Post by Lux on Nov 30, 2008 19:10:44 GMT 12
Same recipe for us, we use spring onions. Agree you have to leave it over night to really let the flavours blend...drooling.
A friend of mine does hers slightly different same ingredients except she uses whole cream and pineapple juice, instead of coconut cream and adds capsicum as well - its really nice too.
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Post by demeter1 on Dec 1, 2008 13:41:39 GMT 12
We will be about 25 for Xmas so it's all chip in. We always have: Salmon/ Raw Fish entrees Very large Hot ham with trimmings. Chickens (turkey not liked by my Mum so that is that  ) homemade gravy Lamb legs - fresh mint sauce Roast Kumara, Fresh new spuds, new peas Salads - pays to be imaginative to get most compliments but has to include avocados. Pudding Pavlova, Mum's Trifle, Xmas Pudding and strawberries Very traditional I am afraid |
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Post by yollie on Dec 4, 2008 6:13:57 GMT 12
Hubby will be recovering from his last night shift, and for dinner we're all going to my parents' place. Probably both of my brothers will be home this year too. Thats 15 of us all up.
And we are doing a table grill thing (raclette?) we each put our own meat on the grill and have french loaves with garlic butter and salads on the side. Its great fun and not too much work for mum, most of it can be prepared in advance.
I might make a pav for dessert and there is sure to be jelly and ice cream as well. And mum always puts a few things under the tree for everyone, just wee bits and bobs but its great!
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Post by maire on Dec 10, 2008 6:17:33 GMT 12
All of the above sounds great, I love the traditional Christmas foods, but since mum died, we haven't done the big Christmas dinner. It's more a brunch bbq thingy, which is what is happening here christmas morning. Two of my sons friends from his church, have no family in NZ, one is American and the other from Angola, so I'm inviting them to spend part of the day with us. As for the menu, not sure about it yet. I have some whole pauas in the freezer, so might get them out and deal to them if I can find the mincer ie.
In the afternoon we will be going to my sis-in-laws for another bbq. Heaps of food as well as people ;D ;D
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Post by kiwi68 on Dec 13, 2008 22:59:01 GMT 12
Well its just me John and the kiddywinkles so it will be a roast of some kind, probably some pork and beef, with all the trimmings. And for pud - well who knows!! Depends on what I decide a few days before hand lol. We dont normally make a big thing of the dinner cos its just us.
Normally on the 27th we either go to friends or they come here and we get stuck into leftovers, and our kids and their kids compare toys etc!!
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Post by naki on Dec 14, 2008 5:58:34 GMT 12
Just the two of us for Christmas lunch, then it's off to work at 6pm for a 12 hour shift.
Christmas dinner with the kids will be a couple of days early, a huge picnic at an unspoilt beach near Rahotu.
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Post by kokonutwoman on Dec 14, 2008 16:00:19 GMT 12
more peeps coming - daughter works with a young Scottish couple first Xmas away from home no family here so I guess we'll be it.
Naki that sounds like a great xmas dinner especially the venue
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Post by hutzumomo on Dec 14, 2008 16:09:01 GMT 12
shop open xmas day, fish and chips, no dishes, play and sleep all day.
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Post by icescream on Dec 14, 2008 17:59:39 GMT 12
Similar to most above....... i was at mysisters today she had te menu planned we all bring something and there is always tomuch toeat...
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Post by yollie on Dec 15, 2008 5:41:31 GMT 12
we used to do that at the in-laws too, but they haven't had a Christmas get-together for a few years! Shame about that.
Christmas here is actually 2 days, as Boxing day is known here as second Christmas day, which is also a holiday, although the supermarkets are usually open for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Most of the other shops are closed on both days.
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