{"id":8435,"date":"2010-11-10T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:12:24","slug":"christmas-dinner-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/christmas-dinner-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Dinner Ideas With Easy Fancy Appetizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christmas dinner ideas come easy.<\/strong> Turkey, Ham, or Beef with potatoes and vegetables. However, how you START your meal can be a more perplexing problem. There are infinite choices of holiday appetizers to choose from. How do you find the right recipe?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/X5vDLWA2PQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>You don\u2019t FIND the right recipe, you create one.<\/strong> And you can create any holiday appetizer you\u2019d like once you discover the secrets behind Pate\u2019 a Choux. This is a basic puff pastry dough, often called \u00e9clair paste, but it makes an attractive shell for any filling you choose, creating an appealing holiday appetizer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appetizers, or \u201chors d\u2019 Oeuvres\u201d are small bites of food to stimulate the eye and palate. <\/strong> \u201cHors d\u2019 Oeuvres\u201d in French means \u201coutside the meal\u201d. These appetizers were originally prepared by the wait staff in early banquets, using the leftovers and scraps from the meal to be served. While the chefs were working, the waiters were offering tastes \u201coutside the meal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pate a Choux dough begins by bringing milk to a full rolling boil on the stove.<\/strong> Just before it reaches the top of your sauce pot, add flour and stir until the dough forms a tight, smooth ball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Egg proteins will give the dough its structure,<\/strong> but adding eggs to a very hot dough will only give you dough with scrambled eggs in it. So, the dough must be cooled to below the 165F (74c) temperature at which egg proteins coagulate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best way to cool the dough<\/strong> is to add it to a mixer with a paddle attachment and simply cool by stirring. Once your thermometer reads about 100F, start adding the egg yolks in a slow stream to allow the emulsification process of fats and water to occur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cooled dough is added to a pastry bag and piped<\/strong> onto a baking sheet in marble-sized balls or finger-sized lengths for \u00e9clairs. You can start to think of all your other Christmas dinner ideas while the puff pastries bake in a very hot 425F oven until they\u2019re brown and fully leavened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you tear one of your freshly baked puffs open, you\u2019ll find they\u2019re totally hollow. <\/strong> This gives a perfect hiding place for crab dip, chicken salad, or even jams and jellies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Christmas dinner ideas should always begin with the appetizers,<\/strong> as they set the tone for the meal to come. Serving little bites \u201coutside the meal\u201d helps stimulate the eye and palate for the great feast about to come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After watching this video, what would you stuff into pate a choux dough?<\/strong> Leave your comment below:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Discover a simple 5 step plan to save time, save money, explode your confidence and conquer the holiday kitchen this year with my FREE Holiday Cooking Success Class.  <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> to hold your spot!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HolidaySuccess468x60.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday Cooking Success\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26402\" target=\"_blank\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HolidaySuccess468x60.jpg 468w, https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HolidaySuccess468x60-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking for Christmas dinner ideas, start by planning great appetizers that set a festive mood and stimulate your guest\u2019s eyes and palates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[102],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}