Christmas Food Gifts

Christmas in July

One of the benefits of living down under is that you get to hold Christmas twice a year. It’s been in fact cold lately- not deadening cold, but for Aussie spoilt with sunshine and irritation it’s been unbearably wet and unfriendly.

Christmas seemed to have arrived very advanced this year in many ways.

I got my first Xmas hand over from my friend, Alice, who knows my model taste well-advised than myself. She’s so OK champion at picking the favourably present for people. I’m still wearing the slippers she got me for my birthday 2 years ago. I called them bumper cars. They are always parked by the bed and I urge around the house in them.

Thanks again, Alice, for the delightful fancy shoes. I’ve been enjoying wearing them.

I also got a job that I had tried to get for a covet time, so my spirits have been very elated this winter.

To keep the Xmas persona going, I called for an critical midwinter Christmas dinner party with some friends and students of mine to give them a cultural endure about Christmas in July - more candidly as an excuse for more comestibles and booze :-O.

Capsicum Cashew Pesto, Olive Cashew Tapenade and Salsa Vede

I was universal to get a Xmas tree and tinsels, but shops didn’t have them on selling yet, not til December. But I still made an achievement to give a bit of a Christmas feel, at least a cocktail feel, to my standing for the guests by hanging around balloons and social gathering.

Initially, I wasn’t succeeding to do much cooking up since people were bringing some nourishment, then I thought, ‘The social gathering wouldn’t be the same without one big dish for people to dole out like big roasted turkey.’ So I went down to the fish market-place - god, I love living so suspend to all that fresh seafood! - and got a Whopping salmon, about 3kg. The persuasiveness of the fish in my pointer made me so excited and, at the same habits, worried about cooking it licence so that it wouldn’t all go to unproductive.

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