Alison Taafe
Fun fast and fabulous food
Chapter 12 New Year’s Eve Cocktail Party
Shopping List
Meat
- Peking duck breasts (3) or half a duck from the Asian supermarket or China Town. You know – the ones hanging up in the windows!
- beef, sirloin or rump (500 g whole piece or 18 thin slices pre-cooked beef from the deli)
- prosciutto (9 slices)
Seafood
- scallops, good-sized, raw, without the orange roe (9)
- prawns, raw, large, shell on (18)
Fruit and veg
- limes (2)
- lemons (3)
- tomatoes, medium, vine-ripened (12)
- shallots (1 bunch)
- cucumber, continental, small (1)
- watermelon, seedless, small wedge (1)
- cherries, black (500 g)
- strawberries, fresh (1 large or 2 normal-sized punnets)
- coconut, fresh, small (1) optional
- ginger, large knob (1)
- garlic, small (1 bulb)
- thyme, lemon preferably but not essential (1 bunch)
- chervil or watercress (1 bunch)
- basil (1 bunch)
- baby cress (1 punnet)
- rosemary (1 bunch)
Dairy
- cream, thickened (450 ml)
- egg (1)
- milk (1 small carton)
Alison Taafe
Fun fast and fabulous food
Chapter 12 New Year’s Eve Cocktail Party
Shopping List
Deli/dry
- cheese, parmesan, grated, dried (40 g)
- ground nutmeg (1 small packet)
- paprika (1 small packet)
- Italian herb mix (1 small packet)
- pepper, cayenne (1 small packet)
- sea salt and black peppercorns (for pepper mill)
- chilli flakes, dried, red (1 small packet)
- hoi sin sauce (1 jar)
- rice paper wrappers, Vietnamese (1 packet)
- bread, sliced, white (1 loaf)
- ciabatta bread or French stick (1)
- roasted capsicum (1 jar or 250 g from the deli counter)
- assorted olives (300 g)
- artichoke hearts in oil (1 x 340 g jar)
- tomatoes, semi-dried (250 g)
- oil, olive, good quality (400 ml)
- honey, small (1 jar)
- chocolate, cooking, good quality, dark (300 g)
- hollandaise (1 jar) if unavailable, use mayonnaise
- mayonnaise, whole-egg (1 small jar)
- horseradish (1 small jar)
- oil, vegetable (150 ml)
- coconut, dried, shredded (1 small packet) if not using fresh
- pastry sheets, puff, frozen (1 packet)
- lime cordial (1 bottle)
- lemonade (1 bottle)
Wine etc
- ½ bottle brandy
- small bottle of Grenadine
- 1 small bottle of crème de cacao
- 2 bottles of sparkling Riesling or Shiraz
- 1 bottle of port
Miscellaneous
- drinking straws (1 packet)
- wooden toothpicks (1 packet)
- Asian spoons, white (18) from the Asian supermarket or 18 small white dishes
- cocktail napkins
- some new serving platters if you need them