Late Christmas Meal

Last Christmas (no I'm not about to burst into song) I managed to arrange a meal with my friends where we each bought a course along with us and we generally sat, ate, drank and chatted and celebrated Christmas. The Christmas just gone we tried to do the same but it immediately became apparent that we weren't all available on the same weekend before Christmas so we decided to do it in January. January started to pass pretty quickly and we realised that the next available weekend was the last weekend in February. Unfortunately one of us four got flu on Friday and wasn't able to come so the whole girly, Christmassy reunion thing didn't entirely happen but the food was good.

To start we had snacks. We were meant to start eating much earlier than we did and so snacks would have been good, and they were, but not entirely necessary. Snacks consisted of delicious tortilla chips topped with chopped avocado, tomatoes, sweetcorn, sour cream and cheese. After ten minutes in the oven they were delicious and we accidentally ate the whole tray!

I was trying to discretely take photos and I forgot to take one of our starter which was a lovely parsnip and apple soup. I had had quite a few glasses of wine and then attempted and failed to get the timing right for the veggies to go with the mains. I had made some mushroom and leek filo parcels for the veggie main and then braised cabbage, roasted new potatoes, parsnips and carrots too. The roasties were all a bit over cooked but edible. The filo parcels were really nice and the others had some creamy chicken thing from Sainsbury's with theirs. 

Apologies for the blurriness of the photos, trying to take them discreetly whilst tipsy obviously doesn't work. Anyway moving onto the best bit, the pudding person hadn't come (that's not the best bit) so I made chocolate fondants and they were awesome served with vanilla ice cream.