Pat and I learned our lesson from last year’s Christmas meal so made sure to plan for half as much food for our meal this year. Though we loved the food eating for ten hours was way excessive!

We planned only four courses this time around:

– Jalapeno and cheese bread rolls
– Singapore chilli crab
– Roast chicken, gratinated potato, roast potato, carrot, broccoli, pepper
– Pear crumble with ice cream

However, Pat forgot to pick us up some crabs so we didn’t get to eat the chilli crab! A bit disappointed but he was able to find some substitutes in his freezer with steamed barbecue pork buns and toasted turnip cakes. Mmm …

Throughout the day after saying Merry Christmas to Australia we snacked on the bread rolls and the turnip cakes whilst watching DVDs. As our menu wasn’t so involved this year there was less action in the kitchen and in fact Pat did most of the work anyway as I was distracted by counting the vodka bottle change so it was a pretty relaxed day. heh heh.

Pat’s roast chicken was yummo (had to have two serves!) and the roast potatoes rate a very very special mtion. Still, there was heaps of room for the pear crumble with loads of ice cream. Mmmm …

Merry Christmas all!