Cooking and food lovers can’t dream of a better time of year than the holiday season. After all, they can finally enjoy a tasty Christmas dinner! We have listed a number of tasty Christmas classic dishes below, stay tuned.
The beef Wellington is a real treat for any meat lover! Many top chefs have given it their own twist and also name. The traditional recipe for this typical English dish is made of tenderloin, foie gras and duxelle (finely chopped mushrooms with herbs) wrapped in puff pastry. While the puff pastry was first intended to be purely functional – it allows the flavor of the duxelle to soak into the meat and keeps the moisture from leaking out of the package – children in particular find it the most tasty part of the dish.
The name for the dish derives from Arthur Wellesley, who was the first Duke of Wellington. He went down in the history books as a statesman, who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He also made his mark on the capital of New Zealand and even the English term for rubber boots.