Christmas Dinner

This year we made a traditional Christmas dinner, with Beef Wellington as the star. This year Nikki wasn’t able to join us, which meant that for the first time we could have meat at dinner. Koen and I have a tradition of eating Beef Wellington every Christmas Eve and it seemed like a fun idea to make altogether at our place in Antwerp. For the starter Barbara made her famous pear and butternut squash soup with fried sage and bacon. Yum!

Butternut squash prep

Hasselback potatoes

Bacon-wrapped green beans

Els’s cranberry sauce

Steak

Steak covered in sauteed mushrooms, then wrapped in proscuitto

Wrapped up in dough and ready for the oven!

Ta-da!

1st Course: Butternut-Pear Soup with bacon and fried sage

Beef Wellington with sweet potatoes, green beans, and a hasselback potato

Cranberry meringue pie for dessert