Les Poissonchats

Planning Christmas Dinner, for me, is a very serious and, as far as merriment goes along with solemnity, happy business. Come the first fairylights and wreaths of the season and a significant portion of my thoughts are taken up with the question of all questions: What will there be for Christmas Dinner! 

All my Christmas Dinners are nostalgic in the sense that they are elaborate and take up several days of preparation, shopping and picking things, trying out table settings and decorating the dining room, it’s a level of effort put into a futile ephemeral thing such as food that will be eaten up in a jiffy, which is quite uncommon and beautifully lavish in a time of efficiency and optimisation. 

This year’s Christmas Dinner will be as follows: 

Consommé de volailles

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Homemade foie gras and tipsy cherries with oignons confits and brioche grillé au feu de bois

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Le trou arrosé à la mirabelle

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Canard à la royale

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Bûche de Noel  

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Café et mignardises

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*This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a big tradition where I come from: every day until Christmas Day you prepare a small gift for a loved one, fourandtwenty little surprises. Advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, extra glitter and glory, and each day there’s a little perforated window waiting for you be opened. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, red velvet ribbons and sprigs of fir. The one I’m making for you this season is a different one altogether, it comes in digital form. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written for your amusement.