Every December 31 all my cousins on my father’s side come to our house to celebrate.
Every year I cook and order some food and desserts on the side. This year I decided to give myself and my staff a break and decided to have dinner catered by Classic Chef owned by a dear friend of the family, Cecille Chuachiaco.
Since we didn’t need plates, glasses or service we decided to pick up the food from the caterer ourselves. The problem was they were 1 1/2 hours late in releasing the food. By the time the food arrived in our house all my cousins were already there and waiting. Well that was very stressful for me indeed. Thankfully all the food were in chafing dishes and nicely arranged already.
Other than that everyone enjoyed the delicious food. The crowd favorites were the Caesar salad, prawns thermidor, tenderloin steak and ham loin. And of course the 3 desserts which I forgot to take pictures of – Warm Apple Pie, Mango Crepe with Chocolate Sauce and Triple Chocolate Cake.
Caesar Salad
The only thing I made was my special roasted garlic Parmesan mashed potatoes which everyone loved. So they said.
garlic Parmesan mashed potatoes
For such a huge piece of baked salmon it was incredibly tender and moist. I loved the nutty, lemony filling.
Baked Salmon with Lemon Almond Stuffing
The homemade ham wasn’t as salty as store bought ham. It was so good my cousins took it all home!
Ham Loin
These pictures are for my other cousins in Taipei, Singapore and New York who couldn’t make it home. We miss you guys! Hope to see you next year. (Some cousins and an aunt went home early so I wasn’t able to take their picture)
Lim family
Baby Bree with my doggie Chino
Classic Chef Catering
161 D. Tuazon Street,
Quezon City, Philippines
telephone: +632-731-2286, +63917-526-5217
Happy New Year Leslie!Read your blog all the time and i have to say your photos make me HUNGRY!!!See you in Unimart 🙂
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the prawns termidor looks so yummy!! 🙂 your doggie chino looks like my baby scottie!! 🙂 http://www.frannywanny.com/2010/04/i-love-you-scottie.html
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Hi Cindy! Pictures don’t have calories naman. So just look and don’t eat. 😀
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Leslie, thank you for the posting. Looking at the pictures is a trip down memory lane. And the food looks delicious Gutom na ako! Regards to everuyone.
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BTW, Chino is a cutie. We should set him up with Olivia. 🙂
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ummmm I don’t think their offspring would look good. ha ha ha
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Are you saying Olive is not good-looking enough for Chino? =-O
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