WTF! Christmas Dinner Menu

[Deano's Right Foot]

I need some help.

I'm going to a company christmas dinner tomorrow.

One of the choices as a main course is:

Churrasco, fried cassava, Manchego cheese and molho campanha.

I have absolutely no clue as to what the f*** they're talking about - can anyone help me?

Turkey isn't even on the menu

Other items on the menu include something with Truffle Oil, another thing with Cuitacoche sauce, and for Dessert I can have Chilean apple and pecan nut budin or Brazil nut cake, doce de leite and chocolate ganache. Where's the christmas pud?

 

[Rangdo]

Turkey isn't even on the menu

Some f***ing Christmas dinner. What idiot booked that?

 

[Turkey]

Re: Re: WTF! Christmas Dinner Menu

Some f***ing Christmas dinner. What idiot booked that?

Beats me.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Re: Re: WTF! Christmas Dinner Menu

Some f***ing Christmas dinner. What idiot booked that?

Office receptionist

Very pleasant but a bit posh.

The vegetarian choice is a spinach ricotta and sultana EMPANADA.

A what?

 

[Rangdo]

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The vegetarian choice is a spinach ricotta and sultana EMPANADA.

You'd be happy with fish and chips and a pint wouldn't you? And I've got no idea what either of those dishes are either.

 

[Beach Hut]

You want sit down and have words with the Office Receptionist - Xmas dinner with no Turkey, FFS

 

[mrhairy]

What it means is that you will get a plate of food that you will not be sure if you should eat it, look at it or frame it on the wall. Big plates with little food but large prices.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

I've just been to dictionary.com

Can't find Churrasco but maybe they mean a Churro which is a "thick coiled fritter of fried dough"

Under cassava: The root of this plant, eaten as a staple food in the tropics only after leaching and drying to remove cyanide

I donlt think I'll look for the rest of the dish...

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

An Empanada is some sort of pastry parcel. Sort of like a Cornish Pasty in appearance, of Spanish origin, they were everywhere in Lima.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Your not going to Old Orleans are you??

 

[Lammy]

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Office receptionist

Very pleasant but a bit posh.

The vegetarian choice is a spinach ricotta and sultana EMPANADA.

A what?

Where are you going?

 

[Gwylan]

You poor sod. Cassava is sometimes called manioc or mogo - it tastes like blotting paper, you'd be better off eating the napkins.

I've no idea what molho campanha is but, at a guess, molho is a sauce (I guess it's a Portuguese version of 'mole') and campanha could be country, but who knows what country sauce could be.

A churro is normally eaten for breakfast with chocolate - never seen it as a starter before.

Manchego cheese is the bollocks though, particularly if it's a mature one.

It's a weird menu - looks like a cross between Latin-American, Spanish and Portuguese; where are you going?

 

[Ex Shelton Seagull]

Churrasco is a Brazilian barbecue, grilled meat on spits, sausages, that sort of thing. Lovely stuff but rather bemused as to how it fits in with the spirit of Christmas?

Cassava is like a potato. It's the roots that you'll be eating. Grated and fried up with oil. Served as a kind of side dish.

 

[Bozza]

The menu for my Christmas do is thus:

Starters

Twice baked goat’s cheese & potato soufflé served with chicory salad with a honey & walnut dressing.

Smoked haddock & new potato tartelette with horseradish cream dressing.

French onion soup with Gruyere cheese croutons.

Chicken & bacon terrine with fresh basil salad & sun-dried tomato dressing.

Mushroom & bean sprout spring roll served with spring onions & a creamy Roquefort sauce.


Main Courses

Thai roasted duck leg with rice noodles, bean sprouts & a plum sauce.

Steamed salmon fillet served with broccoli & hollandaise sauce.

Wild mushroom risotto cake with asparagus, tomato & French bean salad.

Pan-fried chicken breast served with sweet potato rosti, wilted spinach & a course grain mustard sauce.

Venison pie served with haggis faggot & red current dumplings.

Tart tatin of braised chicory & puy lentils with a honey, thyme, garlic & cheese sauce.


Byzantium Dessert Lantern

Six small puddings served on a two-tier lantern. Each portion consists of one of each of the following :-

Orange & almond muffin
Chocolate brownie
Mini mince pie
Espresso ice cream chocolate cup
Caramelised apple tartelette
Hazelnut & chocolate meringue

 

[caz99]

bozza's is pretty much similar to mine although we have pheasant, venison, red mullet and something esle not a turkey in sight.

 

[caz99]

oh except maybe we have goose this year

 

[Publius Ovidius]

wahay Caz

 

[caz99]

yes cant wait

 

[Marshy]

3 course meal in our social club....prawn cocktail, turkey all the trimmings and xmas pud with brandy sauce....£8
Quality, and cheap socail club price beer as well.

Now thats more like it.

 

[Ex Shelton Seagull]

I think your receptionist has been on holiday to South America recently. She's been off to Brazil or Peru, had a bit of the food and thought "they'll love this back home!"

So she's booked up all this South American stuff and you know that she'll be going on about "now we had this in a wonderful little place in Cuzco" whilst your sitting there thinking "where's the gravy?"