AppetizersCharcuterie board: cured ham, salami, rillettes
- Cured ham150 g
- Dry salami120 g
- Rillettes90 g
- Cornichons60 g
- Baguette1
No salmon, no scallops: a Christmas dinner for anyone who doesn't like seafood on their plate.
Smoked salmon isn't everyone's thing, and that's totally fine! This menu skips the fish and seafood, and keeps everything else about the party. Charcuterie board, gougères and deviled eggs to start.
The foie gras plays its star-starter role, then comes a turkey breast stuffed with chestnuts, with porcini sauce. An hour and a half in the oven, and the whole table digs in.
For the cheese course, a warm Mont d'Or you dip potatoes into: a super cozy moment. And the chocolate praline yule log, to finish the way it should.

Before the party: 2 hr 37 min of cooking. The big day: 2 hr 55 min of cooking, and the oven runs for 2 hr 15 min.
7:00 PM: the oven is already at 180 °C for “Turkey breast stuffed with chestnuts, porcini sauce”, and “Comté gougères” needs 200 °C. Cook “Comté gougères” first, then reheat it at the last minute.
Do the "buy now" shopping (pantry, canned goods, drinks)
Do the fresh shopping
Make the choux dough for the gougères, keep it in the fridge
Stuff and tie the turkey breast, keep it in the fridge
Make the yule log (sponge roll at 200 °C, praline cream) and chill it
Move the foie gras from the freezer to the fridge, if it was in there
Hard-boil the eggs and make the deviled eggs
Preheat the oven to 180 °C
Put the stuffed turkey in the oven (about 1 h 30)
Bake the gougères at 200 °C
Set out the charcuterie board
Serving: appetizers
Take the foie gras out of the fridge
Boil the potatoes
Toast the gingerbread and plate the foie gras
Time to sit down: the starter
Make the porcini sauce while the turkey rests
Serving: main
Put the Mont d'Or in the oven (25 min at 200 °C)
Serving: cheese
Decorate the yule log right before serving
Serving: dessert
About $134 in groceries for 6 guests, so around $22 per person, from appetizers to dessert. That's an estimate based on average supermarket prices.
Your store and your brands will move the total, but that's the ballpark.
The day before or earlier: Comté gougères, turkey breast stuffed with chestnuts, porcini sauce, chocolate praline yule log and foie gras, toasted gingerbread and fig chutney, so 2 hr 37 min in the kitchen before the party. On the big day, you get to breathe.
The oven runs for 2 hr 15 min on the big day, and two dishes want it at the same time at different temperatures: the game plan tells you which one to cook first.
Dinner's served at 8:15 PM, and the game plan warns you when things get tight. The timers in the plan tell you when to take each dish out.
With drinks: Charcuterie board: cured ham, salami, rillettes; Comté gougères; Deviled eggs. To start: Foie gras, toasted gingerbread and fig chutney. For the main: Turkey breast stuffed with chestnuts, porcini sauce. For the cheese course: Oven-baked Mont d'Or with potatoes. For dessert: Chocolate praline yule log.
For 6 guests, the big picture: half-cooked foie gras (300 g), turkey breast (1.1 kg), Mont d'Or (2) and dark chocolate (180 g). The full grocery list, aisle by aisle, is right above.
In two trips. Three days before, the stuff that keeps (17 items: produce, meat and seafood, dairy and pantry). Then the day before, the fresh stuff (7 items, like sausage meat, turkey breast and rillettes). You'll dodge the last-minute crowds.
To sit down at 8:15 PM, the first step of the big day starts at 5:45 PM: hard-boil the eggs and make the deviled eggs. The main (turkey breast stuffed with chestnuts, porcini sauce) goes in the oven at 6:15 PM. Every step of the game plan is timed backward from when you sit down to eat.
This menu is free of fish and seafood. It's not vegetarian: for a meat-free table, there's a full vegetarian menu. A kid counts as half a serving in the quantities.
Yep, from 2 to 12 guests: change the number at the top of the page, and the quantities, the grocery list, the budget and these answers all follow.
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