Christmas dinner starters

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I’d cook them. I like Angels on Horseback.

 

[karadekoolaid]

But I don't think anyone cooks caviar...

On a recent MasterChef USA, one of the contestants added caviar to his dish and cooked it.
Needless to say, he was sent home
According to the judges, cooking caviar turns it into buckshot. I can quite believe it.

 

[karadekoolaid]

How to Cook Black Caviar

I really don't see the point. It's like cooking lettuce for a salad, or roasting your cornflakes for breakfast, or boiling coca-cola.
What's that famous phrase? If it ain't broke, don't fix it?

 

[TastyReuben]

Ok, I just put together my list of appetizers/starters/nibbles for the rest of the holiday season (including the eve and the day), so here goes, in no particular order:

Devils on horseback
Deviled eggs
Cocktail meatballs
Cheese twists
Pigs in a blanket (American-style)
Tomato crostini
Sausage pinwheels
Goat cheese sandwiches
Pimento cheese and crackers
Salami roll-ups
Bacon-wrapped crackers
Olives-and-cheese wreath
Chrstimas tree vegetable platter (and dip)

Also, punch and assorted cocktails

 

[karadekoolaid]

We're going to one of my wife's cousins house for Xmas, so I don't actually need to do anything.
However, they're coming here for New Year's Eve, so I'll be thinking up some wierd and wonderful starters for the 31st.
New post, perhaps?

 

[Morning Glory]

We're going to one of my wife's cousins house for Xmas, so I don't actually need to do anything.
However, they're coming here for New Year's Eve, so I'll be thinking up some wierd and wonderful starters for the 31st.
New post, perhaps?

Yeah. A new thread but it may be a little too soon?

 

[fruitjuice]

Always fish, usually prawn cocktail which this year I’ve ordered from M&S. I’ll have to pep up the flavour by adding a dash of brandy etc, not exactly taxing
But I couldn’t make my mind up starter wise so I decided to also order the little pots ‘Lobster, Smoked Salmon and Prawn Towers’ and a whole side of smoked salmon. The blurb even says they come in “Table presentable packaging”

The tradition seems to be I sort out the starter and about an hour before I’m going to dish up everyone decides as breakfast was filling it’s too much and we’ll have the starter later.
Often on Boxing Day before the bubble n squeak and cold cuts.
We’ve been doing that dance for years
The year I didn’t do a starter there were complaints that it didn’t feel like a proper Christmas without a prawn cocktail

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Too pretty not to give them a go. It’s watercress mousse and garlic mousse in-between the layers.
They work out at £6 each which I thinks not bad value for the amount of work that’s gone into it.

Just had a look and the things I’ve ordered are sold out already. I can only guess M&S shoppers sort their Christmas stuff out pretty early!

I love this! It looks so fabulous! I want it!

 

[karadekoolaid]

Yeah. A new thread but it may be a little too soon?

Exactly. I'm holding back for the moment until "someone" posts a Valentine's thread

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I love this! It looks so fabulous! I want it!

Tricky when something looks that good though isn’t it, high expectations n all that!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Always fish, usually prawn cocktail which this year I’ve ordered from M&S. I’ll have to pep up the flavour by adding a dash of brandy etc, not exactly taxing
But I couldn’t make my mind up starter wise so I decided to also order the little pots ‘Lobster, Smoked Salmon and Prawn Towers’ and a whole side of smoked salmon. The blurb even says they come in “Table presentable packaging”

The tradition seems to be I sort out the starter and about an hour before I’m going to dish up everyone decides as breakfast was filling it’s too much and we’ll have the starter later.
Often on Boxing Day before the bubble n squeak and cold cuts.
We’ve been doing that dance for years
The year I didn’t do a starter there were complaints that it didn’t feel like a proper Christmas without a prawn cocktail

View attachment 121605
Too pretty not to give them a go. It’s watercress mousse and garlic mousse in-between the layers.
They work out at £6 each which I thinks not bad value for the amount of work that’s gone into it.

Just had a look and the things I’ve ordered are sold out already. I can only guess M&S shoppers sort their Christmas stuff out pretty early!

I miss watercress

 

[msmofet]

Yeah. A new thread but it may be a little too soon?

I posted a New Year thread

In the Spotlight ... New Year (2024)​

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I miss watercress

I can imagine.
Not worth growing?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I can imagine.
Not worth growing?

Too hot and needs running clear water their the paddock. It has quite specific growing requirements.

 

[Morning Glory]

Mod comment: Can we please stick to topic. There are lots of posts preceding this one which need moving and have nothing to do with ChrIstmas dinner starters.

 

[TastyReuben]

If we’re allowed to extend Christmas starters across the whole of the season, then these should fit here:

We do this a lot during the holidays, in lieu of a “proper” meal. Roasted tomato crostini, Christmas tree deviled eggs, and cream cheese salami roll-ups.

We’ll do something similar on the day itself.