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23 Great Recipes for TomatoesWhen you think of Christmas dinner, there's fantasy and reality.
Reality is: You'll have a mishmash of spiral-sliced ham and the
three-hummus dip tray from Trader Joe's.
Fantasy is ... well, this was ours: an epic feast from the turn of the century. We wanted food from an Edith Wharton novel, like grand roasts and a seafood course, all served on a table with lots of silver and gold-rimmed china. So we dug up dozens of hotel menus from library archives and chose the most evocative dishes we could find. Then our test kitchen brought them back to life.
Click each dish or click to the next page to begin our grand feast.
Oysters
Oysters on the Half Shell »
Relishes
Nuts, Radishes, Olives »
Fish
Crab-Stuffed Sole Paupiettes with Sauce Vin Blanc »
Palate Cleanser
Punch à la Romaine »
Roast
Slow-Roasted Prime Rib au Jus with Pommes de Terre Lorette
and Creamed Spinach »
I loved this!!
I enjoyed this - more please!!
Are there more series of "Lost Recipes from the Grand Hotels"? This is an awesome feature!
My grandmother had more than one celery serving set from when raw celery was something special -- a long narrow shallow serving bowl for the stalks, and small individual dishes for salt for each diner.