We had 18 guests and more than 30 carollers over on Christmas Eve.
A sampler of dinner served. Didn't manage to take all the food...was too busy hosting. In Msia, we go carolling for the FOOD, lol, spending an hour or more in each home, lots of merry-making and christmas warmth.
The meat are Braised Drop at the Bones Lamb Shanks, and Chicken Rendang.
Oh, bring us some figgy pudding....and a cup of good cheer!
Here you go....figgy pudding with brandy butter.
Here's my Dresden Stollen. The recipe called for the marzipan to be cubed...hmm...next time I'll do it the traditional log-in-the-middle way.
Small fruit cake (alcohol bombs) I made for the moms.
Sticky Toffee Brownies with Maraschino Cherries stuck on with White Chocolate
Every one had a gingerbread man to bring home. They are decorated with lots of different expressions by my girls.
Apricot and Macadamia Biscotti
Pecan Fudge
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Wow TP. Looks good to me. You put the gingerbread men, on the tree!?
Yup. So that on the way out, my friends can pick one off the tree. Just love to see the look of delight. One year I got all my nieces together and they decorated 112 gingerbread men and women, more colourful than these.
One little girl couldn't wait.... :)
I'm glad to see. My family and I also had a happy christmas.
TP,
Your goodies look great...especially the stollen...it looks "lecker!"
Doughman
TP,
Merry Christmas to you and yours! Thanks for the photos of your goodies, they look just wonderful. I'm afraid all of our Christmas treats this year, other than my sozzled fruit cake - nearly all gone - were European goodies purchased from a local wholesaler.
How about posting your lamb shank and rendang recipes?
Oh go on, pretty please???
Carol.
Testing....testing....one...two....
I'm surprised I can access this site albeit with difficulty. Internet accessibility has been congested to a crawl because some major cables have been dislodged due to a 7.1 richter scale earthquake.
Thanks, Maedi, doughman and Carol.
Carol, your european goodies sound [i]lecker[/i] too! All my savouries were catered from halal sources as I had muslim guests....so no recipe for the lamb shanks. It's arabic....it was so good that all my guests agreed that it's the best lamb they've ever tasted. As for chicken rendang, you could do some googling, I can't at the moment.
Hope this works.
great work, teepee!
Your "Stollen" looks absolutely fine, a little bit yeasty perhaps
Myself havn't found time to bake , must catch up, Panatons too..
SD is about 1 month old, ouuu, it might be sour.
I've done some "Zimtsterne" (Cinnamonny Stars )
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and some date macaroons
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TP ...
Earthquakes, floods ... you've got it all going on over there at the moment!
TeckPoh, your food looks just fantastic... again!
Happy new year to everyone!
Pab
I'm still experiencing traffic congestion problems....takes me 10 mins to load this page. But, I just had to grit my teeth and bear the wait...to wish my baking family here [size=18]"A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!"[/size]
Markus...would love recipes for those 2 yummy treats. Danke.
Happy new year all!
Waiting to fly to NY to go back to work and get my intestines in order, ameobas, mud and long drives, will follow with lots of pictures of food and scenes in the Andes when I get some time after work this week, will post my trip in details on my site!
Ta and cheers to all!
TP you amaze me with all that hard work and scintillating photography!
Jeremy
Ah TP its always so nice to see your pics. The food looks so good and the presentation. I am hungry already - again!
You really need to get into selling your talents!
Any cuisine magazine would love to have you on the staff!!
And Jeremy - looking forward to your pics (just not the ones of the amoebas please!)
You can probably take your pick from these Jeremy!
Can't wait to see your photos.
Carol
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Ta Jeremy, keep cool before murdering yourself with work.
TP, receipes will follow this evening, but the technique of the second one (burn off..puuhh) must be explained by another one, ask carla, perhaps she knows
This buche is for hubby to bring to his office today. A chocolate roll filled with Bailey's Cream swiss meringue buttercream and chocolate chips, and covered in chocolate buttercream spiked with Kahlua.
Also made dozens of fruitcake cookies, to be decorated to look like christmas puddings soon.
3 items done, 4 to go....ho! ho! ho!
Your turn.
Cheers
TP
Especially like the feathering on the end of the log
TP
And Pete's been making jam for Christmas presents :
Key (hubby) is the jam-maker too.
Just had to try Dan's moist stollen recipe. Made 6 of these, with homemade marzipan (made with Key's muscle power). YUM!
2 to go, and I'm finished...er...done (in). Happy festive baking, all!
TP
... those snowflakes look amaaazing!!!
I've just made coconut jellies (you know, the Chinese ones made with agar agar), and moulded them in a Nordicware petit fours pan that I've been struggling to find a use for!
I'm going to spam with a few more pix, finger food this year for guests.
Minced beef pies flavoured with arabian masala (sent by BIL in Dubai....he also got me zattar!).
A lot of raves for this simple christmas cake cookie.
Cheaty bought puff pastry filled with otak-otak (spiced fish custard).
C, I made a big 'un in the nordic christmas mould but it split during the unmoulding, sigh. Here's 2 small ones...osmanthus jelly with water chestnuts.
The pièce de résistance is this christmas pudding sent all the way from England. Guess who made it?
I didn't take pix of the bruschetta topped with semi-dried tomatoes with zattar, and I have a cut stollen pix somewhere...
And, now, we move on to New Year!! (roll eyes)
TP
...third attempt. First ones were too green and too coconutty. Second ones were an attempt at egg agar-agar, but instead of the thin whispy pulled strands of egg, I got scrambled egg. It looked unfortunately like someone had puked into the agar. So I had to try again, and these worked a treat - plain sweetened agar on top, and coconut agar on the base.
These also went down well. White chocolate ganache mixed with crumbled Christmas pud and a bit of Kirsch, then dipped in tempered dark Belgian chocolate.
And TP, a recipe you have to, have to, have to try, if you haven't already done so...Hungarian shortbread. Same dough, different handling - you freeze the dough, and then grate it into the pan! Made with Pete's nectarine conserve.
TP
...I'm sure Key will make you some jam to go inside the shortbread! :) It's a great recipe - my only advice is that you grate it in the food processor rather than by hand (which is a hard, PITA job!). Food processor literally is matter of minutes. And then you can keep shortbread dough in freezer, jam in the cupboard, and when people ring and say "we're coming over in an hour", you've got instant afternoon tea...
...they don't mention this in the recipe, but it was in the comments - it works best if you let the dough defrost a little before you bake (probably doesn't need long in M'sia, though). I actually baked it in a large rectangular pan, so my slices are quite thin and there is a higher proportion of jam to shortbread...
TP
...topped with white chocolate ganache and milk chocolate...
I can't send you a slice, but if you wanted to make your own, the recipe is here! It's my son's favourite cake, and it will probably all be gone today! ;)
I was greedy and kept 2 stollens for myself. Cut this week-old stollen for breakfast.
... we can't be friends if you mention the word "scales" !!! ;)
Love the look of your stollen - I've never tried making that before. Is there a recipe around here somewhere that I've missed? I'd love to give it a go...thanks..
.... just saw the recipe on the front page of the forum! TP, do you think the stollen would work without marzipan? I can't stand the stuff.. :)
TP
Hey Celia... Stollen is made with or without Marzipan. I found some interesting info on Wikipedia...In Dresden each year they make a stollen that is over 3 tons! Here we get 3-4 different types of stollen from Germany and Austria. If it is made without marzipan they usually call it Butter stollen. I sometimes prefer it that way. Your holiday bakes look delicious! Your son's favorite cake might make a good choice for my son's birthday this weekend!
Ld and Tp great inspiration! I had a few gliches with my holiday baking but managed to pull off these great holiday rolls... I have to work out some details but I think I should have the recipe soon. I started to make bread and decided to convert it to a sort of Brioche and Orange Cranberry Pecan Sweet rolls. Both came out great! We made french toast with the brioche, it had a swirl of cardamom and cinamon through it with clemintine zest instead of lemon. Somehow I missed taking a crumb slice and all the evidence was consumed!
Hope you are all blessed with a great baking Year!...
So when is the next bake off?
The new school year started yesterday. So, I'm quite busy with the girls...and the chinese new year is around the corner, plus some other stuff. Guys, please start any bake-off if the fancy takes you. I'll join in whenever possible.
TP
That looks like some great figgy pudding (can't say I've ever seen it in the flesh!). Your christmas celebrations look fantastic, and our sunday school group would like to borrow your idea of putting cherries on top of the brownies. Caroling and pecan fudge has to go hand in hand! Extremely festive. these are my favorite festive goodies: