A starter for Christmas lunch

madvixen

I'm doing Chicken Liver and Champagne pate. I'll serve it with toast and red onion marmalade. I'm making it on Sunday as it'll sit quite nicely in the fridge for a couple of days.

Scorpio_girlie

We always have egg mayonnaise! I find soup too filling, husband doesn't like melon, I don't eat meat/fish!!

Fussy lot we are! lol x

islandgirl8

Thank you! Lots of ideas to think about

Archiebear

madvixen wrote: »

I'm doing Chicken Liver and Champagne pate. I'll serve it with toast and red onion marmalade. I'm making it on Sunday as it'll sit quite nicely in the fridge for a couple of days.

My Dad served a chicken and champagne pate last year and I loved it despite never eating pate before!

Would love the recipe if you can share please?

LadyCoupon

We never have a starter, would never manage to eat the main meal, even the desert we tend to eat a bit later, cause always too full from the turkey dinner.

Baileys_Babe

We are having a big family gathering, about 30 of us the starters will be carrot & cumin soup or melon or mushroom pate or salmon pate.

I like the idea of a large prawn cocktail an hour or so before the main course, I may try that at other large gatherings.

madvixen

Archiebear wrote: »

My Dad served a chicken and champagne pate last year and I loved it despite never eating pate before!

Would love the recipe if you can share please?

Ok here goes.
1 pack of chicken livers (I use Sainsburys)
1 shallot
butter
thyme
lots of black pepper
Champagne/fizzy wine (also works really well with Gin)
Cream

Add 50g of butter to the pan and melt over a low heat
Chop your shallot and add to the pan. Cook over a low heat for 5 mins
Chop your chicken livers and add to the pan. Make sure to remove all the white bits. Cook the livers thoroughly over a low/med heat. Add more butter if it starts to get a bit dry
Add chopped thyme and loads of black pepper. Cook for another 2 mins
Add the alcohol. I'll use around 100ml. Cook over the low heat for a further 5 mins
Take the mix off the heat and add some cream. Blend until smooth.
Chill before serving

Hope that helps

my3girls

Soooo hungry reading this!

I do 3 starters so people have a choice, prawn cocktail, melon & cinnamon & soup (usually veg/lentil)

I also leave on the tables throughout the meal pât!, Brie, cranberry sauce etc with crusty bread and different crackers.

I really need to do a food shop lol

teacherandmum

we are having haggis. not sure if we'll serbe anything with it or not. perhaps some bread? (open to ideas if anyone can suggest anything)(dont mean to hijack OP!)

Kitchenbunny

Starters for us on Christmas Day usually meant a bacon sandwich for breakfast. We don't have starters now, as the main meal is normally enough and there's the rest of the day to fill up at the corners.

Love the idea of the baked brie though!

KB