It is the busiest time of year many people happy. Visions of snow flakes, presents under the tree, mulled wine and happy moment of our proximity is a feast to celebrate. Delicious food crumbs of fried potatoes, Brussels sprouts, and ends with the resistance of a piece of Christmas pudding in flames. This is also the point where normally the panic begins to integrate most of the leaders and aspiring cooks. How to get the perfect dinner, without overly frenetic by a fiend on the stove! There was a professional chef for many years, I jotted a few tips to share with you to get out of this Christmas the best ever and relaxed.
The trick is the most important of all, and one of the first things that we never as a leader, is the art of preparation. It is like the heads on television that the air when everything easy to manage and market together a fabulous meal in the shortest possible time, without breaking a sweat!
The first stop on the way to a Christmas dinner without stress is to ensure that a list of guests, which is now to examine and your guests if someone from specific nutritional needs. It is quite general, to customers who are gluten, dairy products or wheat or intolerance, allergies to things like nuts. Once you know what everyone can not and must not eat, you can start with the second stage.
Plan your menu in early to write to your list of food business. The main articles can be purchased in advance and frozen. Final costs such as the ingredients for the salad, fruit and vegetables can be stopped for one or two days before the big event.
If you have recipes, read the well at this time, if you know exactly what you prepare and how long it - if I am honest, I’m always on the revenue as a benchmark and my own special key. For my preparation list I tend to be a column for the time and on the side of what I write, in what order the things I prepare and how long it takes, for example, the preparation of vegetables can be made when a soup is boiling on the stove. Factors such as baked goods and even soups and sauces, salads can be taken long in advance and frozen, to give you some valuable time.
Most of your food is produced, or at least in part, in the run-up to Christmas itself everything you need to do is to make the final ingredients, and turn the cloth happy and enjoy the party with the rest of your guests. It is also a good time to ensure that your crockery, cutlery and glass wear is clean, and you have enough of them. Each purchase should be final in the morning before Christmas, and the company can cook.
The largest part of the meal May more time to prepare, to ensure that you, he has time. Brussels sprouts can be washed and cut the crosses in the extremities. I love the root vegetables at this point, I peel and cut percussion instruments, and converted it into a high country with leaves with a little salt, pepper, thyme, fresh, olive oil and sugar, so that ‘they just need to be in the oven to accounts . Potatoes are cooked and peeled part so that they are prepared for baking the next day.
For the sauce, I recommend the purchase of a stock or fresh juice supermarket, because most of us have not really the time for a good camp - which can take days. Reduce specific ports or red wine in a pan with the onion, and some chopped fresh herbs such as thyme or sage, add sauce and boil, strain and serve. To truly a professional, whip a little ice in the cold butter in the last minute, what really shine to the sauce.
In my family, we prepare our Christmas pudding, cake and minced meat beginning of September and let it rest in a cool, dark, eat once a week with a little brandy. But in the supermarkets have all this work for you, and have their puddings up to six months in advance, and they are really delicious tastes and how they are made. The trick in one of the pudding is in flames easily heat a little water of life to the temperature of the blood and poured it on your blood sausage, as it all comes to the table and the light with a game and not just an easy-to-no Fingers burnt. Therefore you should not forget the traffic lights reduction in the room before the triumphant!
The most important of all, to relax and have fun when you are cooking. Turn the music and a glass of wine and enjoy what you’re doing. I was always taught that if you love what you cook the best taste of all!
