Christmas Feast Menu Challenge

Choice of 3 starters

sweet potatoes candied in brown sugar and butter, then baked
turkey stuffing
steamed vegtasbles
a choice of soups
chips (or crisps i suppose if you're in england) with clam dip

* Choice of 3 full main courses

Roasted Turkey
Roasted Ham
Cutlets of steak
Beef stew

* Choice of 3 deserts

assorted christmas cookies
pecan pies
chocolate mousse
icecreams w/ sauces and toppings

* After dinner snacks

chocolates
peppermints
assorted nuts
assorted dried fruit
cookies
fruit dipped in chocolate
candy canes

* A wide variety of soft drinks
coke, diet coke, pepsi, diet pepsi, rootbeer, sprite, dr. pepper, 7up, cherry 7up butterbeer, pumkin juice, milk, water.
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* Decorations for the great hall and the tables
the tables are covered in heaps of green garlands with red, green, and gold ribbons charmed to shine and sparkle, and red berries. the plates are of course gold encrusted with rubies and emeralds.

the hall has the traditional christmas trees and has many garlands all over. the walls create a shiney gold back drop for the rest of the decorations.


* A list of at least 10 songs to play (performed by hogwart's very own ghost choir)

1) Where are you Christmas?

2) Jingle Bells

3) 12 days of christmas

4) O Come All Ye Faithful

5) O Christmas Tree

6) Silent Night

7) Deck the Halls

8) Rudolph the Rednosed Raindeer

9) Frosty the Snowman

10) Here Comes Santa Clause


* Anything else you might think of*

Santa Clause in his Sleigh taking christmas lists from the first years who come sit on his lap and get candy canes! XD

Hogwarts Menu

Starters:
Red and Green salsa chips w/ salsa
Homemade Vegetable Soup(s)
Salad with dressing of choice

Main Courses:
Smoked Ham
Roasted Turkey
Baked Chicken

Dessert:
Assortment of Pies
Christmas Jell-o Cake
Ice cream and serbert

After Dinner Snacks:
Christmas Cookies
Christmas Little Debbie Cakes
Fruit
Potato Chips

Soft Drinks:
Sprite
variety of Pepsi Flavors (ie Cherry, Lime, diet)
variety of Coke Flavors
Mountain Dew
Milk
Hot Chocolate
Juices
Lemonade
Coffee
Root beer
7up
Water
Butter beer

Decorations:
The great Hall would be decorated with Christmas Trees, balloons, Mistletoe, holly and other Christmas plants

The tables would all have streamers, and mini Christmas trees on them, plus presents and vases with plants that weren't all over the hall already.

Songs to Play:
1) Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
2) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
3) Jingle Bell Rock
4) The Twelve Days of Christmas
5) Feliz Navidad
6) Here comes Santa Clause
7) Deck the Halls
8) Have Yourself a Marry Little Christmas
9) Away In The Manger
10) Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer
11) I saw Mommy kissing Santa Clause
12) The Chimney song
13) Santa Baby
14) I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (so fitting XD)

Anything Else:
I thought maybe we could have a Santa fly in with his reindeer and have elves come in and sing a couple of songs or get up on stage and preform in some other way

Today I present you a Quebec Christmas meal ^^ well at least most of it is lol cause I know that other things are being eated some place else too but I'll put here things I eat at Christmas

3 starters

- Mimosa Eggs (http://luxe.campagne.free.fr/images/oeuf-mimosa.jpg)
- Pumpernickle bread with spinash dip (you remove the inside of the bread and put the dip in it instead and you dip in it with the crust of the bread which remains lol. No pics for that one)
- Cream of Sweet Potato with Maple Soup (http://onewholeclove.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/sweet_potato_soup.jpg)

3 full main courses

- Tourtiere (I don't think there's a name for it in english, it's filled with potatoes and lard and beef and sometimes chicken and venison) (http://www.banlieusardises.com/delices/img/tourtiere_rosemere_grande.jpg)
- Meat pie (http://www.quebeciscooking.com/quebeciscooking_files/tourtiere.gif)
- "Ragoût de Pattes" (so I don't know the translation for that one lol) (http://www.atelier-duotang.com/recettes_de_cuisine/photos/ragout_de_boulette_a_la_patte.jpg)
- And yeah, we do eat turkey too so just put that in

3 deserts

- Maple Syrup Tart (http://onewholeclove.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/maple_syrup_pie_1.jpg)
- Maple Sugar Palmier (http://onewholeclove.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/palmier)
- Pudding of the Unemployed (rofl don't laugh at the name) (http://onewholeclove.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/pac)


After dinner snacks

- Chips (loads of it)
- Crackers
- Cheese
- Grapes
- Vegetables like carrots and cucumbers and celeries and tomatoes and etc
- Dips for the vegetables
- Peanuts and almonds

A wide variety of soft drinks

- Pepsi
- Coke (my family is like... on a war with those two things XD)
- 7up
- Iced Tea
- Juice (orange, grape, fruit, whatever)
- Milk
- Pumpkin Juice
- Butterbeer
- Hot chocolate
- Coffee (is that a soft drink? lol)
- Rootbeer
- Mountain Dew
- Egg nog (non alcoholized one.. that exist right?)
- Non alcoholized punch

Decorations for the great hall and the tables

Well first of the colours of the Great Hall has changed! It is now red and green and gold and silver everywhere, even the tables' have changed changed as they are no longer brown but a deep shade of gold. There are green and red table cloths on every table and there are ribbons hanging everywhere around with guirlands and Christmas lights. On every plate there is a party hat with a small gift and there's a disco ball hanging from the ceiling (come on.. lol). And finally, right beside the teacher's table, there is a huuuuuuge Christmas tree all decorated with small pixies and glistening ribbons and guirlands and colored balls and lights, and at the top there's a white and gold angel.

A list of at least 10 songs to play

French songs! Some of them anyway lol

- All I want for Christmas is you
- Christmas don't be late
- Le feu danse dans la cheminée
- Bonhomme hiver
- C'est Noël
- Silver Bells
- Jingle Bells Rock
- Père Noël arrive ce soir
- Farandole
- Frosty the snowman (^^)
- C'est l'hiver
- Carol of the bells (soooo great)
- Le sentier de neige
- Joy to the World
- Angels watching over me
- Noël c'est l'amour

Anything else you might think of

Presents! Loads and loads and loads of presents for everybody, and happiness and love and fun and Merry Christmas! ^^

Snapes_girl is our official party planner of the evening. Here is a list of what we will be eating and drinking and how the hall will be decorated.

* Choice of 3 starters
1. potato skins with bacon, cheddar cheese and sour cream
2. fried mozzerella cheese sticks with marinara dipping sauce
3. Nachos with cheese sauce and jalepenos

* Choice of 3 full main courses
1. Steak and kidney pie with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy, corn on the cob and a fresh roll
2. Chicken cordon bleu with a baked potoato and sour cream, peas and a hot biscuit
3. Baked stuffed haddock with crabmeat stuffing, white rice and a salad.
* Choice of 3 deserts
1. Treacle tart
2. Hot apple crisp with french vanilla icecream
3. Rocky road cheesecake

* After dinner snacks
1. Strawberries dipped in chocolate
2. Triscuit crackers with sharp cheddar cheese and pepperoni
3. Pita bread slices with garlic and herb hummus

* A wide variety of soft drinks
1. Firewhiskey
2. Pumpkin juice
3. Butterbeer
4. Elf made meade
5. Hot cocoa
6. Water with a twist of lemon

* Decorations for the great hall and the tables
The four tables in the great hall will each be decorated with streamers matching the house colors. There will also be wreaths made of blue spruce hung on the ends of each of the four tables as well as the head table. The Head table will have streamers of red and green. All tables will have brass candle holers all down the middle sporting green and red taper candles. In each corner of the hall there will be 10 foot Christmas trees each decorated in the four house colors.

* A list of at least 10 songs to play
1. The first noel
2. Here comes santa claus
3. We wish you a merry Christmas
4. Grandma got run over by a reindeer
5. Santa baby
6. O' Holy night
7. O' Christmas tree
8. Deck the halls
9. Winter wonderland
10. Silver bells

* Anything else you might think of
It will be snowing in the Great hall but the snow will dissapear just before it touches anyone/anything. All students will be required to wear dressrobes. All the professors will be wearing santa hats and the house elves serving the food will have on a green sock, a red sock and a red and green knitted teacozy. After the main course is served there will be dancing in the middle of the great hall.

Choice of 3 starters

Classic tomato soup with croutons and french stick
Honeydew melon and blackberries
Salad choice from the salad cart

Choice of 3 full main courses

Roast Turkey with all the trimmings
Roast Chicken with all the trimmings
Vegetarian option avaliable with all the meat free trimmings

Trimmings include: gravy, sweet potatoes, roast potatoes, sausage stuffing (or vegetarian option), choice of vegetables, Cranberry-Pear Relish, Herbed Wild Rice Rolls

Choice of 3 deserts

Christmas pudding and custard
2 slices Christmas Cake
Hot apple tart and custard

After dinner snacks

Chocolate fountain and fruit dips
Cheesy selection
Cocktail sausages on sticks
Cheese and pineapple on sticks
Crisps and peanuts

A wide variety of soft drinks

Pumpkin juice
fizzy pop
butterbeer
sparkling water
non alcoholic cider
Selection of warm water drinks

Decorations for the great hall and the tables

The table decorations:

These in each of the houses colours

The room decorations:
The room will be docorated with streamers, fairy lights, a huge christmas tree in the corner with loads of presents underneith. A huge fireplace is at either side of the room lit with logs and decorated like this:



A list of at least 10 songs to play

1. Deck the great hall with magical holly
2. Good Head Dumbledore
3. Hark the herald house elves sing
4. Jingle Bells
5. O christmas tree
6. O little town of Hogsmeade
7. The holidays are coming (in memory of cola adverts!)
8. We wish you a hogwarts christmas
9. The magic and the ivy
10. Away in the ministry

Anything else you might think of
The great hall ceiling will show a white christmas scene.

Decorations

Each house table is covered with a tablecloth in festive colours of red and green. At intervals down the table there are candle's nestled in festive table decorations.

Each place setting has a Christmas Cracker, of the highest quality. Each cracker contains a joke, a hat, and a present.

The Great Hall is resplendant with twelve gloriously decorated Christmas Trees, and faux-icycles hang from each of the windows.

Christmas Songs

Merry Xmas Everyone by Slade
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard
Step Into Christmas by Elton John
Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin Stevens
The Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty McCall
The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole
White Christmas by Bing Crosby
All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey
Little Saint Nick by The Beach Boys
Happy Christmas by John Lennon
Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney

Anything Else?

At the end of the meal, presents will be exchanged, and traditional games will be played, such as a family quiz and a round of cards.

- 10 songs to play• All I want for Christmas is you – Britney Spears
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin
• Santa Baby - Kylie Minogue
• Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - B2K
• Jingle Bells - Jimmy Buffett
• Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Burl Ives
• Step into Christmas - Elton John
• Christmas Through Your Eyes - Gloria Estefan
• Last Christmas - Wham!

- Decorations
• instead of the usual candles in the air we should have golden night-lamps
• one giant tree in the middle of the Hall covered with white snow and thousands of tiny lights and a few red, yellow, green and purple Christmas decorative threads
• For the tables pearl colored table-cloths with Christmas patterns and several centre-pieces made of holly and mint.

- Anything else• A hired band or singer to perform all night
• Small gifts for everyone in the tables

HOW ABOUT IF EVERYONE CAN JUST THINK UP THE FOOD THEY WANT AND IT APPEARS ON THEIR PLATES.

OK HERE IS MY IDEA:

how about we have good old american fast food? for starters? after that we wont need anything else believe me.

then for desert we have pumpkin pie for the traditionalists, any flavor ice cream (all flavors that are in the flavored beans), and cakes, lotsa cakes.

do you think we'll need the after dinner snacks after all that? i say we give antacid pills for all students.

okay soft drinks now: how about only having surprise flavor? that should be fun, not knowing what you'll get.

decorations, hmmm. okay each house will sit in their own corner which will obviously be in their own color. the ghosts should be made to wear the house colors as masks (even the baron) you can also have baubles floating around, each changing colors as they enter a house zone.

im sorry i dont really know christmas songs as my family doesnt celebrate it but i think that this year should only be the humorous ones like the angel complaining about the discomfort of the tree under him one. theres many funny xmas songs out there.

lemme see, anything else? how about everyone gets carried up at the end of the meal?

umm if this is not the way i was supposed to answer then i apologize in advance. i guess i can never be too serious about work.

Appetizers

• open, and bottomless fruit baskets can be placed at your table
  
• a tray of fesh-made mozzerella sticks and compliementry dipping sauce
  
• Toasted Italian bread topped with fresh basil, tomatoes, artichoke hearts, and fresh mozzarella
  

Main Course

• turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, grapes, and vegetables
  
• Lincolnshire Poacher and fresh herb crusted char grilled lamb cutlets, redcurrant and balsamic marmalade with smoked cherry tomato sauce
  
• Grilled tournedos of Lincoln Red beef fillet, rosemary scented mash potato and berry sauce comes with potatoes and vegetable
  

Desserts

• a beautifully decodant chocolate cream pie
  
• trifle bowl dessert
  
• carrott cake
  

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• varied and vivd assortment of mints and hard handy
  
• mini cupcakes decorated with your's truly Rudolph
  
• coffee cakes and cookies
  

Soft Drinks Include:

• sprite
  
• coke
  
• pepsi
  
• sierra mist
  
• root beer
  
• cherry and orage soda
  
• berry drinks
  
• pumpkin juice of coarse!
  

Songs:

• Santa Can You Hear Me?
  
• The Chimney Song
  
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause
  
• Feliz Navidad
  
• I wish it Could be Christmas Everyday
  
• Jingle Belle Rock
  
• Joy to the World
  
• We Three Kings
  
• Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire
  
• White Christmas
  
  

Great Hall:

The tableclothes would be red and white with beautiful dishes and silverware marked with the Hogwarts' crest. The giant tree would be covered with presentd and streamers and banners would fly through the air.