Dinner 2025

**Shelby** · 2025-11-30T22:29:45Z

12 hours ago, Duvel said:

For Christmas, we are alternating between our families in Germany and in Spain. This year we will be in Spain, so we „preponed“ our German Christmas gathering with my parents and my sisters family to this weekend. My fathers as well a little ones birthday was just the week before, so we had a couple of celebrations together. As a added benefit we met at my parents in the North and had some icy nights & mornings to get into Christmas mood …

I made classic holiday fare. Spice bread with whole foie gras …

A chestnut „cappuccino“, made from roasted chestnuts, cream, five spice and topped with milk foam …

Duck two ways: breast, dry cured and SV for 4h @ 54oC, then seared. Just perfect and served with a tart cherry sauce. Legs, also presalted two days in advance and SV 36h @ 70oC with thyme, butter, quatre épices and finished under the broiler. Classic dark duck sauce. Red cabbage, lingonberry jam and homemade dumplings from raw potatoes. In the heat of the battle, only little one made a picture of the mains …

There was pear schnapps as dessert for the men, any other (solid) options were declined due to being completely pigged (ducked ?!) out …

No complaints 😎