A Celebratory Christmas Menu for Six or More: cocktails, appetizers, a main course, and dessert. Plus a timetable and lots of advice.
Main Course
The category “main course” will give you entrees that are usually served with side dishes.
Dill and Fennel Meatloaf
This beefy dill and fennel meatloaf takes everyday cooking down a street your mama warned about. Great freshly made, reheated, and cold.
Pork Stew
This pork stew is made from pork shoulder. It tastes slow-cooked, but I made it in an Instant Pot … although it was hardly “instant.”
Porterhouse Steak with Potatoes, Green Beans, and Corn
Want a beefy, manageable, satisying, one-pan, meat-and-potatoes meal? Porterhouse Steak with Potatoes, Green Beans, and Corn is a win.
Spicy, Beefy, Smashburger Tacos
Spicy, Beefy, Smashburger Tacos: melty cheese, crispy yet chewy tortillas … they cross into comfort-food territory.
Burger Rice Mince
This burger rice mince with melted cheese will sate your protein cravings. It makes a ton, but that’s cool, because it keeps well and reheats perfectly.
Gender Reveal Chili
Gender reveal chili? Yes. This is the story of how I turned Chipotle burritos into a really great batch of chili. After a gender reveal.
Chicken in Mustard Sauce
This recipe for Chicken in Mustard Sauce relies on the remnants of a bottle of mustard, which you combine with cream and chicken breasts.
Simple, Flexible Dinner Salad
Make this salad and its creamy dressing with chicken or shrimp, crème fraîche or sour cream, simple or fancy greens and vegetables. All good.