Dinner Club Christmas Celebration

My dinner club had our annual Christmas dinner on Sunday evening! As a joke, Jeff threw out the idea of doing a '12 Days of Christmas' theme -- and we ran with it. I was quite impressed with all of the amazing ideas and delicious food. Here's what we dined on:

A partridge in a pear tree - Pear Dessert

Two Turtle Doves - Turtle Brownies

Three French Hens - Crostini (French) with sun-dried tomato jam and goat cheese

Four Calling Birds - oops! This one got left out!

Five Golden Rings - Five rings of bread: Roasted garlic and Asiago cheese, Herb pesto with cheese, Basil pesto with sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and cheese, and sun-dried tomato

Six Geese a Laying - 6 deviled eggs of 4 different kinds: spinach bacon, curry, regular, and crab meat

Seven Swans a Swimming - 7 beverage choices including: Black Swan red wine, white wine, wassail, egg nog, white Russians, New Belgium beer, and decaf coffeeEight Maids a Milking - Tres Leches Cake (Three Milk Cake) Nine Ladies Dancing - Tiramisu made with lady fingers and Mango, avocado, tomato salsa ('cause salsa's a dance!) Ten Lords a Leaping - The Lord's Supper - Mediterranean style with bread, lamb, and dip

Eleven Pipers Piping - Zabonotyrofloyeres (Greek) - which translates "Ham and Cheese Flutes"

Twelve Drummers Drumming - Bacon wrapped bbq chicken drumsticks and Pecan and panko crusted drumsticks