Parmesan polenta?? Recipe please!!

We flew home from Germany on Christmas Eve day. I’d made French onion soup & frozen it before leaving, knowing we’d want a very simple and light dinner when we returned. We made it a bit fancier with lacy cheese crisps (shredded hard cheeses, seasoned with herbs in the oven for ~8m) set afloat with German pretzels, and clementines + baumkuchen for dessert. The pretzels float so much better than baguettes, and the cheese crisps taste better and are much easier to manage as they are brittle vs traditional gooey Gruyère that we’ve decided to do it this way in the future. Could have been served with salmon, but none of us were hungry for more after a long day of road food and air lounges.

Wow! Really nice menu. A thousand times better than Thanksgiving menu!

Prime rib with blue cheese butter, mushroom sauce, red wine au jus, or horseradish
Potatoes roasted in goose fat
Creamy Parmesan polenta
Popovers
Roasted Brussels sprouts

Italian cream cake for dessert

It was a rich evening. I do the polenta just because it’s my kid’s favorite. I should have added some kind of green salad for freshness.

Cheese tray
2 crostinis- mushrooms with sherry and herbs, and shrimp with garlic and parsley
Halibut in parchment with peppers, onions, white wine
Potato gratin
Charred broccolini
For dessert, pineapple soufflé, holiday cookies, port

Charcuterie board (different cheeses, sliced salami and other charcuterie, nuts, olives, fig spread, crackers)
Pigs in a blanket
Shrimp with two types of cocktail sauce
Heated wheel of Brie with apple slices
Mini quiches- crustless if we have a GF person attending
Veggie and fruit trays
Hummus (has to be from Lebanese Taverna)
If I plan ahead and get avocados to ripen- I will make guacamole and have chips
BBQ small meatballs
Some form of bread, really good butter
Cookies

tuna crudo
oysters with mignette
crab arancini
clams casino
spicy lobster with spaghetti
citrus arctic char
tiramisu

I made fish chowder and bread.

Sous-vide beef tenderloin, twice-baked potatoes, salad, inexpensive Portuguese table wine from Costco.

Charceuterie tray, oysters for apps

Whole lobsters, risotto with artichokes, mushrooms and peas, bibb lettuce salad with cucumber, carrots, tomatoes and blue cheese

rum cake and chocolate mousse for dessert

We are Italian so I did steamed mussels, clams and shrimp appetizer with meats/cheeses/ crackers

Dinner was seafood lasagna with Caesar salad and garlic bread.

Dessert… cheesecake

This year we did spinach artichoke dip with fresh bread as a starter and then cioppino with more bread and roasted broccoli, plus a Yule log.

No. I did mean Christmas Eve.

New family decided that I will host next year and it will be apps mostly.

However, won't the same menu also work for NYE???

Did you mean New Years Eve?

If you are serving mainly appetizers, please list them too.