A special entree for New Year's Eve
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381976)
Rockingham, Australia
January 2, 2019 6:53am CST
We welcomed in the New Year with seven friends. We all stayed in one lovely big house and shared lots of fun and laughter. We’re all getting older so to help pass the time till midnight on New Year’s Eve we spaced out our evening meal. We had nibbles around 6pm, then entrée about 7.30pm, our main course about 10.00pm and dessert at 11.
Each couple was responsible for one of the courses. Vince and I had chosen to do the entrée which consisted of three separate dishes. We had tiny pancakes topped with cream cheese, smoked salmon and capers, then prawns wrapped in bacon and puff pastry and baked in a hot oven. The last offering had camembert cheese in the middle of a round of puff pastry which had been spread with mustard then had slices of prosciutto laid on with more puff pastry over the top.
The camembert formed the hub of a wheel. The pastry was then cut from the centre to the outside and each ‘spoke’ twisted. It was then baked. To eat it, you broke off a spoke and dipped it in the hot camembert. Although it was a bit tricky to make it looked fantastic and everyone voted it a great success.
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28 responses
@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
2 Jan 19
Yummy! It sounds like a lovely dish and a lovely evening. =)
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
3 Jan 19
@playertwo Yes, and very creamy. Mmmmmm
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
@playertwo Yes. That and camembert are my favourite cheeses.
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
2 Jan 19
looks great - glad it was a huge success for you
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
We had made it the week before to make sure it worked and that we could do it.
@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
Thanks. I'm pleased we made it. It all went quite quickly.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jan 19
I would like to try prawns wrapped in bacon.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
2 Jan 19
That looks very professional and must have been very tasty
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
@responsiveme I think you said that somewhere else too. Did you like it? It is a favourite of mine.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
3 Jan 19
@JudyEv and tasted too,I suppose. I would not be able to make these.i tried out the brushetta you once wrote about
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@snowy22315 (208846)
• United States
2 Jan 19
Now that deserved a picture! It is lovely! It must be nice to have so many friends. Which one did you guys make?
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
2 Jan 19
It is beautiful and sounds delicious. But it is too much work for me.
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
3 Jan 19
@playertwo I´m past doing that kind of work. But I would not mind being invited to eat it.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
2 Jan 19
One of the great way to welcome the New Year. And your entrees are all good. Who wants to sleep if these foods are lining up to come.
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
We spread out the courses so we'd be able to stay awake till midnight. Most of us usually go to bed much earlier than that.
@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
@ilocosboy So you missed seeing the New Year in? Never mind. There is always next year.
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
3 Jan 19
So sad I sleep very early because I was drunk 
This is the first time I sleep very early.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
2 Jan 19
The food sounds lovely. I'm happy you had a nice time ringing in the new year
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
3 Jan 19
@JudyEv I'm so happy - but then I think you are nice yourselves, so like attracts like
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
2 Jan 19
That was a lot of work I am sure but worth all the time spent on it Looks delicious
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
3 Jan 19
@JudyEv With Vince by your side ............never mind
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
@allknowing Our friend called us 'team Evans' as we were both busy with the entrees.
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
It's nice when something looks a bit special or as if you've taken a lot of trouble.
@RasmaSandra (97991)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Jan 19
Thank you so much you just made me so hungry and it is 11 PM. Oh, well a little midnight snack coming up. WOW that food sounds so good.
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@RasmaSandra (97991)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Jan 19
@JudyEv I have a small piece of chocolate cake left that will do 
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
@RasmaSandra Chocolate cake - that would make a lovely midnight snack.
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I hope you found a nice midnight snack.
@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
I just fell in love with the look of it. It looks like you really know what you're doing. 
@WiseGhots (14603)
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3 Jan 19
@JudyEv Yeah, I literally ate that food with my eyes, haha!
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@JudyEv (381976)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 19
@WiseGhots It was pretty nice. I hope we get an excuse to make it again soon.
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