Christmas Party Menu

Christmas is a much awaited festival and celebrated with utmost excitement and fervour everywhere in the world. One can’t think of Christmas without a Christmas tree, a nice feast, champagne, and Santa Claus and Christmas wreaths ever. In fact, it is the most common thing that you will see on everybody’s front door and a Christmas party looks incomplete without a proper decoration and ambience. It’s very important to give proper attention to the interior as well as outdoor ambience of your party venue. Using a theme will compose your outdoor Christmas decoration much easier.

The week between Christmas and New Years is packed up with bargain hunting at after-Christmas sales, gift exchanges and returns, parties – and leftovers. Popular must-haves on a menu turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, roast beef, cranberry sauce sitting in the refrigerator, covered with foil and plastic wrap and lots of candy canes on the tree. You can also treat your family to a warm, comforting meal on one of the cold and crisp days after Christmas.
You can spend the time with guests so my menus are set in advance and much of the food is prepared ahead of time so you can spend the maximum time with my guests. Here is a brief Christmas menu which can give you a clear idea on what you can plan for the party.

Christmas Party Menu

• Vegetables and Dill Dip
• Spinach Dip and /corn chip dippers
• Cheese cubes/ sausage and crackers
• Crab Puffs and Rye Bread Pizzas
• Meatballs
• Red Pepper Jelly Spread with Crackers
• Holiday Chex Mix
• Christmas Cookie Tray
• Nuts and Fudge
• Crab Puffs
• Cheese ball and Crackers
• Christmas Cookies

The Red Pepper Jelly spread you see on the menu is a very simple recipe. I take 8 oz of cream cheese and blend in two teaspoons of red pepper jelly. I serve this with an assortment of crackers. It is always a hit at the parties and people can’t believe how simple it is to make.

Meatballs are also a very simple recipe, buy a large bag of premade meatballs at the grocery store and heat them as per the package directions in the microwave. Do this about 2 hours prior to the party and then put them in a Crockpot and pour a bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s barbeque sauce over them. Set the Crockpot on low and they will be ready to eat by the time the party starts. Make sure you have a small dish with colored toothpicks setting next to the Crockpot for easy serving.

Evening Meal – Christmas

• Pork Tenderloin with Apples and Cranberries
• Mashed Potatoes
• Roasted Asparagus
• Cranberry Chutney
• Eggs Fantastic
• Hash Brown Casserole
• Hot Fruit Casserole
• Christmas Cookie Platter

Meat Toast on a Christmas Day

Big chunks of meat are too good to waste, and boring if not treated with imagination. Casseroles, soups, stratas, and stuffed pastas are some of my favourite ways to transform meats into delicious meals. Turkey should be eaten within two or three days. Ham lasts a little longer – four or five days. Roast beef should also be used within a few days and freezing these ingredients will keep them safe, edible and delicious for about a month.

You don’t have to spend this week making ham or turkey sandwiches. Cranberry sauce is a wonderful dessert ingredient. Mashed potatoes can be an elegant filling for beef rolls. And ham is delicious in pasta, soups, and a crispy, savoury filo roll. Turkey in a rich cheese sauce layered over toasted English muffins and broiled until bubbly and Roast beef serves well in manicotti and in a tasty spinach salad and leftover Christmas cookies aren’t leftover and they’re meant to be eaten.

So by now you’d have a quite a nice list of items on the menu for the Christmas party this year.