With the holiday season right around the corner, it is time to start focusing on your Christmas and New Year’s Eve menu. Holiday hosting ultimately comes down to preparation, ensuring you have all the essentials ready before your guests arrive.
From picking delicious recipes for the whole family, to making sure your kitchen has everything you need to host guests, including our versatile serveware and cookware, the holiday season is where you can earn the title of the ultimate host.
Le Creuset’s serveware is designed to bring timeless elegance to any dinner table, offering home cooks and chefs alike the perfect centerpiece for all their culinary creations. Crafted with durable stoneware and available in a range of bold colours, our dinnerware sets can contrast or complement your existing kitchen setup and elevate your table setting this holiday season.
Our ultimate holiday hosting guide will walk you through everything you’ll need to host a complete holiday meal, ranging from essential pieces of serveware and cookware, all the way to delicious recipes.
Appetizers
The appetizer course sets the tone for the entire meal, stimulating your guests’ appetite with a delicious, bite-sized snack. Appetizer dishes are usually light and easy to share and are designed to complement the main course. Here is what you will need to serve your appetizers in style.
Appetizer Plates
Our Classic Appetizer Plates make for a great addition to any Le Creuset collection, providing the ideal piece of dinnerware to serve appetizers, side dishes, and even desserts. Crafted with durable stoneware, our Set of 4 Appetizer Plates are built to last well beyond the holiday season and are available in five bold colors, ensuring you find the perfect match for your dinner table. Alternatively, you can opt for our Set of 4 Minimalist Appetizer Plates, providing the perfect minimalist backdrop for all your favourite appetizers.
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Serving Platter
Our Serving Platters offer home cooks and chefs alike the ideal blank canvas for all your culinary creations, guaranteeing this year’s holiday appetizers take center stage. Featuring a generous surface area, our Serving Platter is extremely versatile and can accommodate recipes of all sizes beyond appetizers, including cheese and fruit platters, or whole poultry dishes.
Le Creuset gives you the choice between our Classic Serving Platter and Minimalist Serving Platter, providing an elegant centerpiece for any dinner table.
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Here are three holiday appetizer recipes perfect for hosting family and friends and starting the meal off on the right foot.
Savoury Choux Puffs with Cold Roast Beef
Our Savoury Choux Puffs with Cold Roast Beef recipe is everything you want in an appetizer. Bite-sized, delicious, and ultimately, leaves you wanting more. This recipe may take over two hours to prepare from start to finish but is great when expecting many guests as it can accommodate between 14 and 16 servings.
The combination of the roast beef along with choux puff and horseradish cream makes for a delicious snack before serving the next course.
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Spinach Cheese Empanadas
Our Spinach Cheese Empanadas recipe can quickly become a holiday staple in your household, offering a delicious meal for the whole family. The key to preparing the perfect empanadas is to get the dough just right and let it rest for approximately three hours.
Featuring fresh spinach, cheese curds, garlic, and onions, the filling elevates this traditional recipe and is a great way to kickstart any holiday meal. Easy to share and absolutely delicious, our spinach cheese empanadas could feature on any Holiday menu.
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Bruschetta
Looking for an appetizer that is easy to prepare and will leave your guests asking for more? Look no further than our Tomato Bruschetta with Cantaloupe and Ricotta Salata. Simply begin by tossing the tomatoes, shallot, garlic, balsamic and half of the oil before seasoning lightly with salt and freshly ground pepper.
Finish by gently stirring in the cantaloupe, cheese and basil and voilà, freshly-served bruschetta in less than 30 minutes!
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With the appetizers out of the way, next comes the classic combination of soup and salad. Here is what you will need to serve your guests in style, as well as three fun recipes!
Serving Bowl
Our Classic Serving Bowl epitomizes versatility in the kitchen and can be used to serve large portions of soup, salad, and even fruits. Featuring a 4 L capacity, our classic serving bowl accommodates between three to four servings at a time and is a must-have in any kitchen come holiday season.
Crafted with durable stoneware, our Classic Serving Bowl is extremely durable and is completely resistant to flavour- and odour-absorption.
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Cereal Bowls
Our Set of 4 Minimalist Cereal Bowls make for a great complement to your existing serveware collection, providing the ideal shape and size for serving soups, salads, or a range of breakfast dishes, including cereal and oatmeal.
Our Cereal Bowls feature a diameter of 16 cm, providing ample space for soups and salads of all sizes, making them a great fit for this holiday season. Alternatively, you can opt for our Set of 4 Classic Cereal Bowls, which are equally versatile, albeit with Le Creuset’s classic triple-rim design.
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Salad Plates
Our Set of 4 Classic and Minimalist Salad Plates is the only collection you’ll need to serve up delicious salad dishes this holiday season, all-while matching your existing pieces of stoneware flawlessly.
Our Salad Plates serve a number of purposes around the kitchen, embodying versatility, and can be used beneath a soup bowl, as part of its own unique table setting, or on their own to serve appetizers, bread, and of course, salad dishes.
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Here are three of our favourite soup and salad recipes ideal for your holiday menu this year, including a delicious and hearty minestrone.
Minestrone
Our Minestrone Soup recipe incorporates all of the classic ingredients of this traditional Italian soup, however, offers a twist. Traditional minestrone recipes include a combination of beans, onions, celery, carrots, and tomatoes. The beauty of preparing a minestrone is the ability to adapt on the fly and integrate flavours of your choice.
Our Minestrone recipe introduces fresh zucchinis, squash, bay leaves, and fresh oregano, delivering a truly hearty meal for your guests. Best prepared in a Dutch Oven, this iconic piece of cookware ensures your soup will simmer to perfection.
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Salad with Orange-Poppy Seed Vinaigrette
Our Composed Winter Salad with Orange-Poppy Seed Vinaigrette is as delicious as it is aesthetically pleasing. This salad makes for a great side dish before the main course or alongside a soup, featuring acorn squash, feta, parsnips, oranges, arugula, and mint leaves.
The combination of pecans and pumpkin seeds offer some much-needed texture, complimenting this delicious winter salad to perfection. This recipe takes over one hour to prepare and can be easily adjusted to accommodate groups of all sizes.
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Miso Soup
Miso Soup, a traditional Japanese dish, has emerged as yet another favourite for home cooks and chefs alike, offering you the ability to easily improvise as it slow-cooks. Our Miso Soup recipe combines the freshest ingredients, including bonito flakes, Wakame seaweed, shiitake mushrooms, and dried kombu kelp.
The Dutch Oven is once again the ideal piece of cookware for this soup, accommodating all the changes in temperature needed to prepare Miso Soup to perfection.
Get the recipeMain Course & Side Dishes
The main course, otherwise known as the star of the show. But let us face it, a main course would not be complete without a delicious side dish to complement it. Here is everything you will need to serve your main course and accompanying side dishes in style.
Dinnerware Sets
Le Creuset offers a variety of dinnerware sets, bringing unmatched elegance to your dinner table for years to come. Our dinnerware sets are available in a number of sizes, including 16-piece dinnerware sets all the way up to 72-piece dinnerware sets, ensuring your kitchen is equipped to host groups both big and small.
Crafted with durable stoneware, our dinnerware sets are built to last and are both chip- and crack-resistant. Whether you are looking to use these sets daily, or simply for holiday hosting, our dinnerware sets are extremely versatile and are suitable for any occasion. Dinnerware sets typically include a blend of dinner plates, dessert/salad plates, appetizer plates, coupe pasta bowls, cereal bowls, and mugs.
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Dinner Plates
Our Classic Dinner Plates are perfect for serving up main courses in style, featuring a recessed base to contain liquids and a refined rim with Le Creuset’s signature raised rings. Safe in the oven, microwave, freezer, and dishwasher, our dinner plates offer you the flexibility you need when expecting many guests this holiday season.
Our Classic Dinner Plates are currently available in five bold colours, ensuring you can match or contrast your existing serveware collection this holiday season with ease.
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Rectangular Casserole
Our Rectangular Casserole can be used for more than just baking, and is great for preparing and serving delicious, layered recipes in style. Whether you have just prepared a decadent tiramisu, or lasagna for the whole family, this casserole accommodates large servings and ensures dinner is served in style.
Featuring a durable stoneware construction, our Rectangular Casserole retains its temperatures for longer periods of time, making it the ideal choice for transporting to parties or when expecting guests.
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Impress your guests this holiday season with this delicious combination of main courses and side dishes.
Osso Buco with Creamy Polenta and Gremolata
Our Osso Buco recipe is yet another traditional Italian holiday dish, perfect for the whole family. The trick with this recipe is to braise the veal shanks in the vegetables, white wine, and beef stock until they are tender.
Our creamy polenta is the ideal complement to this osso buco this, while the gremolata is a thoughtful final touch. This recipe can be prepared in a Dutch Oven or a Braiser as both pieces of cookware lock in heat and moisture wonderfully thanks to their tight-fitting lids.
For more information on how it is done, watch how we prepare this Osso Buco dish.
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Trussed Beef Pot Roast with Vegetables
Our Trussed Beef Pot Roast with Vegetables provides a hearty main course for friends and family, serving up to six people at a time. The Dutch Oven is great for this recipe, allowing you to brown the vegetables to perfection, all-while slow-cooking the beef until it is tender.
Simply follow our three simple steps on how to truss the beef and you will have yourself a delicious main course this holiday season.
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Roasted Vegetables
Compliment any main course this holiday season with a classic serving of roasted vegetables. The Oval Casserole ensures all your vegetables will roast to perfection, achieving the ideal balance between texture and flavour.
Featuring three different squashes, cauliflower, beets, and turnips, this dish is equally hearty as it is delicious. Feel free to mix in additional vegetables of your choice or adjust the portions to accommodate larger groups of people.
Get the recipeCoffee & Dessert
With the main course all but wrapped up, it is time to start thinking of coffee and dessert. From our Classic Mugs to our Coffee Lover’s Set, here is everything you will need to serve a decadent final course.
Mugs
Our Set of 4 stoneware mugs makes for the ultimate addition to your Le Creuset collection, helping you serve steaming hot coffee and tea after a complete meal. Our mugs are crafted with stoneware, ensuring their durability, all-while keeping beverages hot and colder for longer.
Available in a range of colours, our Set of 4 Classic Mugs are a great way to elevate your morning routine or night-time tea ritual. Beyond coffee and tea, these pieces of serveware can accommodate hot chocolate, mug cake, and a variety of other heated beverages of your choice.
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Desserts Plates
Our Dessert Plates are extremely versatile, serving a number of different purposes when hosting guests. From serving up decadent desserts to being used for salad, appetizer, or bread courses, these plates are a must-have when expecting family and friends.
Featuring a 22 cm diameter, our Salad and Dessert Plates can easily accommodate sweet and savoury treats of all sizes and are particularly suited to all holiday hosting needs. These plates are offered with Le Creuset’s signature raised rings, or in a minimalist design.
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Caffeine Lover’s Sets
Our Coffee Lover’s Set comes equipped with all the essentials to serve freshly-brewed coffee on a daily basis. This set includes a Classic Whistling Kettle, a French Press, and four classic mugs, ensuring you have everything you need to welcome your guests in style.
Built with durable stoneware, our Coffee Lover’s Set is crafted to last daily use, brightening your morning routine well after the holiday season.
Our Tea Lover’s Set differs slightly from this collection, swapping out the French Press with a 1.3 L Grand Teapot. Whether you are steeping tea leaves or simply want to boil water quickly, our Tea Lover’s Set is yet another Le Creuset serveware essential.
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Wrap off your holiday menu with a decadent dessert, ranging from the classic Tiramisu to our Cardamom Hot Chocolate.
Holiday Tiramisu
Tiramisu remains a holiday staple and is typically prepared throughout Christmas and New Year’s meals. While this recipe requires some experience to get the coffee and mascarpone creams just right, this delicious dessert is sure to become a regular in your household once you have mastered it.
The Rectangular Casserole is the ideal piece of cookware for this dessert, exposing it to a consistent heat source for an even bake. Our Holiday Tiramisu takes just over two hours to prepare, serving up to 12 people at a time.
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Cardamom Hot Chocolate
When expecting many guests, easy-to-prepare dessert recipes are a must and our Cardamom Hot Chocolate is no different. Simply begin by bringing the milk, cream, spices, and vanilla to a boil before whisking in the chocolate until smooth.
Next, whisk the cream with the sugar and vanilla until firm peaks form for a delicious hot chocolate topping. This recipe can easily serve up to four people at a time, taking mere minutes to do.
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Equip your kitchen for success this holiday season with Le Creuset’s serveware and cookware essentials and begin planning your Christmas and New Year’s Eve menus. Whether you are looking to serve up a five-course meal for a host of guests, or are planning a more intimate gathering, we have you covered.
Our serveware collection is crafted with durable, heat-retaining stoneware, perfect for any occasion. From the Salad and Dessert Plates all the way to our dinnerware sets and versatile serving platter, you can easily earn the title of the ultimate host this holiday season. For more inspiration, visit our blog and read up on the latest tips for all cooking techniques, cookware, and care and use for all your Le Creuset products.
