In time honoured tradition we celebrated Xmas with a long lunch. This year it consisted of eight courses with friends from all over the world, aged from 13 to 70-something.
The theme this year was music and food, so each dish required matching grog and song, which of course go together very well!
Course 1 - Lemon sole with lemongrass butter, by Stuey, with Raidis 2014 Riesling
Music – Think, Aretha Franklin (Sole/Soul Music!)
And this is the table setting as we got stuck into course no 1:-
Course 2 - Beef or Veggie Empenadas, by Camilla and Paulo, with White Rabbit White Ale
EDIT PAULO VIDEO
Course 3 - Goulburn trout (or Beetroot Tofu), puff pastry, sushi rice cream, apple and sake jelly, beetroot roe, salted capers. With Toko Junmai Ginjo Genshu (sake), OR Chardonnay Rochford Macedon Ranges Estate 2008, OR Temperance Apple Mojito
Music - Fish on a Bicycle, Humphrey Clucas performed by Katie
Course 4 - Salt
crusted pork belly (or Pumpkin) by Peter AND Best Ever Brussels by Richo, with
Music - Saltwater, Chicane AND Croquembouches (which means Brussel Sprouts in either French or Walloon), Claude Delvincourt
Course 5 - Mango ice cream, blueberry & ginger granita, finger limes by Katie, with Saraceni Blumond Blue Bubbly OR Brown Brothers orange muscat
Course 6 - Vegetarian Christmas roast with tomato & miso sauce AND Tomato & basil salad AND Beetroot salad by Cory/Naomi AND Duck a la Jamie by Nicky, with Red cocktails - pomegranate gin fizz OR Peter Rumball sparkling shiraz
Music – Red, Taylor Swift AND Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev
Course 7 - Pavlova Anna - Coconut pavlova,
tropical fruit salad, passionfruit caramel by Ruthy, with
Course 8 - Cheese by Stuey, with Raidis Coonawarra Cab Sauv 2014, OR Taylors 10 year tawny port, OR Pennyweight muscat
Music – Cheesecake, Louis Armstrong
