Christmas Eve Recipe Ideas

Christmas is quickly approaching and the time has come to soon send our invitations to the Christmas Eve or Day dinner.

Special occasions are a great time for friends and family and, in order to please our guests, we have to be creative when it comes the time to create our menu. But... if the Christmas turkey is a delicious meal, we would sometimes change our habits and eat something else.

Here's a Christmas menu turkey recipes idea including four different dishes from soup to dessert; which are simple to make special occasion cooking recipes but include a nice alternative to the Christmas turkey.

Awesome Recipes With Turkey Leftovers

Ingredients

4 eggs
1 ½ cups of half and half
Salt and pepper
Ham, chopped
Turkey, chopped
Broccoli
Swiss cheese, grated or diced
Cheese

Preparation Instructions

Right now we are going to do a Thanksgiving leftovers quiche. Mix together your eggs, half and half, and a little salt and pepper. You can use a prepare pie crust from the supermarket. Add a little chopped ham and turkey to your pie shell. Then add our leftover cooked broccoli, Swiss cheese, and then we add our egg mixture. Add just enough egg mixture to cover all the ingredients in the pie crust. Then add a sprinkling of cheese over the top of the pie.

Bake at 375 F degrees for about 40 minutes or until it gets a nice golden brown on top and the crust has set and the top has set.

Source: http://www.gourmandia.com/recipes/terrific-leftover-turkey-recipes

Christmas Goose

Ingredients:

8 to 10 lb. whole goose
1 chopped onion
1 chopped apples
1 tablespoon dried grapes
Oil
100 ml red wine
500 ml chicken broth
Thyme
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F Put the oil coated goose in a shallow roasting pan Tuck the wings and tie the legs together with kitchen string Put the apples, onions and dried grapes around it Cook for 3 hours, basting regularly with the cooking juices Remove the goose from the oven Pass the cooking juices through a strainer In a saucepan, combine the fat from the roasting pan, the red wine, the Chicken broth and the red wine Let cook until boiling and then add floor, stir constantly, until the gravy thickens Serve with steamed potatoes.

Dessert:

Baked Apples

Ingredients:

10 mashed speculaas
120 g almond paste
40 g dried grapes
2 tablespoon rum
4 tablespoon grounded hazelnuts
1 tablespoon honey
8 apples, washed, cored and halved sugar glace

Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F Combine the mashed speculaas, the almond paste, the dried grapes, rum, hazelnuts and the honey Put the apples in a baking dish Garnish with the mixture Bake for 15 à 20 minutes Serve warm with ice cream and sprinkle with powdered sugar.