Liven Up Holiday Entertaining With a Southern Style Buffet

For the winter holidays, warm flowering your at ease tuck away a Southern-style rap for relaxed, informal entertaining.

Consider having two buffets, apart through appetizers further one considering the main meal. welcome guests shield a colorful, refreshing glass of champagne with a muddy of pomegranate juice and pomegranate seeds.

Create your dinner buffet cloak casseroles and Southern side dishes that contract be made a extent or two early besides sweltry convenient before serving. Rather than large casseroles, bake two smaller portions of the same dish to make it easy as guests to serve themselves hold back no waiting.

For a sweet ending, nothing says Southern like pecan pie hold back vanilla arrange good or a beautiful bowl of ambrosia lock up seasonal fruits.

Liven up the bread by elevating some of the platters and decorating tuck away fresh holly, candles or silver ornaments.

To hearten your holiday buffet, endorse this recipe from Wild American Shrimp Inc. roomy cache flavor, shrimp provides a high-protein, low-carb choice.

Although much of the hardly any Americans eat is farm-raised in other countries, many seafood lovers enjoy the rich, sweet zap of Wild American shrimp, which is seasonally harvested from the Atlantic besides Gulf of Mexico.


WILD AMERICAN SHRIMP AND SCALLOPS cover

ORANGE JUICE

(Makes 4 servings)


16 large scallops

8 extra-large Wild American

shrimp

1/4 cup olive oil

1 cup sliced leeks

1 cup sliced fennel bulb

1/2 cup white wine

2 cups supplementary orange juice

reduced to 1/2 cup (reduce

by boiling over high heat)

1 tablespoon champagne

vinegar

Pinch sugar

6 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon supplementary tarragon,

chopped


Season scallops and shrimp ditch salt further pepper. Heat olive oil in a 12-inch skillet owing to high heat until dangersome but not smoking, then cook shrimp and scallops until just cooked through, about 2 minutes per side. Set aside and keep warm.

Add leeks and fennel to the pan and saute for 2 minutes, careful not to burn. comprehend wine, orange discipline reduction, vinegar and sugar, carry to a boil and reduce by half. Swirl in butter again additional tarragon.

Add sauce to diminutive and scallops and lob well to coat.  - NU