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In response to
"The Christmas Dinner Menu (and it's only the two of us this year so we'll have lots of leftovers)..."
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Christmas Deeve, The Christmasing
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Here's ours...
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Dec 24 '14, 07:51
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Roast lamb
Roast chicken with sausage stuffing
Sorpotel (which is a curry pork stew)
Pilau
Zucchini
Lima bean casserole
Something with potatoes
For dessert (these are already made)
Christmas cake
a bunch of Goan sweets that I have no idea how to spell:
kormboloas (pastry made with coconut milk that is twisted into a flower-bud shape and then deep fried)
neureos (deep fried empanada-like pastries) in two fillings - one made with chickpea flour and another made with grated coconut
bolinha leaves - these are like sugar cookies shaped into leaves
raisin bolinhas - these are round semolina cookies, studded
nankhatais - these are like shortbread, and flavoured with cardamom and rosewater, or cardamom and orange blossom water
bathk - a coconut cake (purists would argue is more like a pie, because it's a cake with a pastry crust)
bibik - a layered cake made by pouring a very thin layer of custard into a cake pan, broiling for 2-3 minutes and then repeating until the custard is finished. It has 15-20 layers.
I shaped the kormolas and the neureos and made the nankhatais, but my favourite is the bibik and my sister-in-law had better have made it.
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