Christmas Eve Dinner

We are in Lyon for a month and if December is the worst time to be in France weather-wise (this year especially), it is one of the best as far as eating goes. Sophisticated meals are de rigueur to celebrate Christmas with the family. And as the family grows, we get to celebrate multiple times...

We spent Christmas Eve with my parents, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin and grand mother. My Mom and Dad cooked this splendid dinner:

Smoked salmon on warm blini; tzatziki; mâche; cod egg tarama

Guinea hen, cooked whole in white wine and chicken broth with honey, raisins and chestnuts
served with mashed pumpkin

French cheese (these four and six or seven more)
with bread

Orange slices, Grand-Marnier marinated dates and prunes, passion fruit sherbet

served with macaroons from Rolancy

After dinner we realised that Santa had come by...