Holiday Menu Planning
2024 Christmas Eve Dinner Rahway
- Dinner
- Prime rib - Requested by Miriam and Maddie
- Dinner Rolls - topped with herbs? Requested by Miriam & Maddie
- Yorkshire pudding (Miriam’s request)
- Mushroom gravy
- Cranberry Bread
- Brussels Sprouts with bacon
- Salad (lettuce, cucumber, cherry tomatoes)
- Dessert
- Struffoli
- Zeppole di San Giuseppe
2024 Christmas Breakfast Highland Lakes & Rahway
2024 Christmas Dinner Highland Lakes
- Dinner
- Chashu Bowls
- sticky rice from Sushi Ya - sushi rolls
Schedule
Monday:
- dough for dinner rolls and cinnamon rolls
- assemble dinner rolls in pan
- assemble cinnamon rolls in 2 pans
- make Cranberry Bread
- put all bread stuff in fridge without final proof
- make cannoli filling, store in piping bag
- make cream cheese frosting, store in 2 piping bags
- make pate a choux. Store in piping bag with star tip.
- make dough for Struffoli
Tuesday (Christmas Eve):
- Before girls arrive:
- prep Roast roast in pan
- prep basic Brussels sprouts
- make Mushroom gravy
- make Yorkshire pudding batter
- bake dinner rolls (350F for 25 minutes)
- After girls arrive (3pm):
- Miriam pipes pate a choux into zeppoles on parchment paper and puts in fridge
- put roast in oven
- assemble salad
- make mulled cider
- prep struffoli
- prep syrup for struffoli
- After Allen-Pooles arrive (5:30pm):
- reheat mushroom gravy
- reheat dinner rolls
- finish Brussels sprouts
- slice and serve prime rib
- Fry struffoli and zeppoles and drain
- After dinner:
- pipe filling for zeppoles and top with cherries
- dress zeppoles with syrup and nonpareils
Wednesday (Christmas)
- Morning
- 6am - take cinnamon rolls out of the fridge, take out chashu from freezer
- 8am - bake cinnamon rolls
- pack bags with chashu, nori, pickled ginger, fries onions, Japanese BBQ sauce
- 10am - mass
- noon - drop kids off at Claire’s mother’s house
- At Linda’s in the late afternoon:
- pick up rice and sushi
- make chashu bowls
Archive
Thanksgiving
2024 Bayonne
- ✔️Dinner Rolls - big hit. Make again. Probably every year.
- Sangria - no one but Aaron on had any.
2023 Bayonne
- Cranberry Bread - very few takers.