Welcoming 2020 with a "Grazing Table"-inspired Media Noche

Happy New Year 2020!

Not only a New Year but also a new decade as we start the 20s of the 3rd millenium!

So how was your Media Noche to welcome this new era?

Ours was just simple but with some Googling, it may have looked a little grander compared to our previous preparations.

It started with sausages I bought from Iloilo Supermart - 2pcs for around PhP 130, so I got 4 different variants.

I wanted to recreate a simple grazing table or maybe a cheeseboard to have something new this time compared to last Christmas' Noche Buena set up.

So I arranged them on a board together with some ham and Queso de Bola plus so breads from Tinapayan Bakeshop.

It was a good thing I got two loaves of French Bread despite the bulkiness of bringing it home.

It gave some flair to the experiment I did. It is basically just a sausage platter patterned after the cheeseboard or some grazing table set-up.

Assorted fruits just filled the void of the grapes and the literal spacea plus some biscuits and walnuts too - if you can see them.

With the highlight already in place, I just crowded the remaining food we had to give it a grazing table "look" despite the many containers of the table.

What used to be the highlight now played second fiddle as the ham platter was just in the shadows. But it was a good and tasty ham - Cares brand I from the grocery.

More goodies from Tinapayan include my favorite holiday baked good - Stollen bread and the equally yummy cheesebread plus some grocery bought wheat bread.

Special mention to another favorite of mine - cheese pimiento loaf. Completing my Tinapayan buys was the Junior Mango Cheesecake.

Speaking of fruits, I'm sure everybody had their 12 or 13 fruits to welcome the new year. Ours wa a combinations of citrus, pears, apples, melons and more.

If corn is considered a fruit then we might add another to our "basket". Made this sweet corn gelatine dessert after craving for some days ago after watching a Jell-O feature online.

With yellow gelatine plus cream-style corn, evaporated milk amd condensed milk topped with sweet corn kernels and cheese, it was more than cravings satisfied.

Added the popular Dacs kutsinta from Arevalo on the menu to have some native delicacy on the list.

As if all the carbo-loading above weren't enough, how about some Valenciana?

Or some Potato and Chicken Salad overloaded with pineapples.

How about some spaghetti with ham and sausages that could even pass as pizza because of the generous toppings.

For a soupy ending, the Pancit Molo is always a good and deliciois idea - no matter what the occasion is.

With soda, juices and wine to wash all these down to our tummies, it is indeed a simple and bountiful start for a prosperous new year and decade ahead of us.

Again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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