MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here we give thanks for all the wonderful people who have graced our lives in 2011.

Merry Christmas to our dear wonderful amazing friends!!

Lunch at the Mews, and Dinner at the newlyweds. We all suffered a serious case of Food Coma.

Pork loin with stuffing prior being prepped

Just tap like that to keep the stuffing in...

There we go. Poi-fect!

Hmmm, check out the layer of fat under the skin.
MMMMMMMM FAT......

TADAH!
The end product, and perfect crackling.

Lol, looks a bit like heaven doesn't it?

Here's a better shot.
Prawn cocktail (centre)
Prawn, mango, caviar rice paper rolls (I calls it Prawn Roly-poly Keemi-style)

Christmas ham, glazed with raspberry jam & apricot conserve.
Pwetty ain't it?

Yummms!

Pan friend orange marinated duck breast

Cue drools now.
Perfecto!
Nice and pink!

Pan fried duck breast with snow pea, mint, carrot and lettuce salad.

*Squeals with delight*
My dining room set is almost complete. So excitements!

Here's what it looks like on the plate!

Champers with strawberries and mint

We thought we'd keep dessert nice and simple.
Chocolate cups with jaffa sorbet and home made vanilla ice cream. AWESOME-NESS!

Lol, that's how tiny they are...

And after lunch, here comes DINNER!
Ok, the spread included baked Christmas ham with orange glaze, prawns, silverbeet, salads, oysters, potato salad, roasted lamb and stuffing (hmm... don't think that made it into this pic).
So. Much. Food.

Dinner desserts, yup: DESSERTS (multiple)
(from top to bottom) strawberry tarts, flan (coffee or mocha or something yummy like that...), lemon curd tarts with blueberries and cherries, sticky date pudding.

Mini tartlets of home made lemon curd and blueberries and cherries.

Sticky date pudding. Delish!

Here we are saying thank you and happy Christmas to everybody!

20 November 2011 - Pot Luck Leftovers

Leftovers again? twice in less than a week, how dreadful....
except, if you ate leftovers like we do, then it ain't dreadful at all!

Check this out!

The bean salad we forgot to eat last night...

Chicken mince and tofu

Tomato soup from noodle night, felafels from pot luck, jerk chicken from pot luck, braised tofu and stuffed chinese doughnuts and stuffed peppers from mum and dad, and the most divine rice paper rolls in the world!

oh, add pandan crepe rolls with coconut

= complete satisfaction

19 November 2011 - Saturday Night Pot Luck

Lu had a few friends over for a pot luck/ mini house warming party (I think this is the way we're gonna be going about it... individual house warming parties)

Anyways, back to the food. This was the spread!

Looks good eh?
So what is it you ask?
Well, it's a rice paper roll with prawn, mango, caviar and kewpie sauce and it was DELISH!

Here we go with the wrapping...
Wrapping of the most awesome parcel of flavours.

And here is another parcel ready to be wrapped, oh yeah we are in the wrapping mode tonight!
Sweetened coconut filling, pandan crepe
The flavours of my heart and soul *Sigh*

And here are the finished product, a few dodgy looking ones but most of them turned out pretty darn good if we do say so ourselves :)
Oh, and forgot, we also made a salty coconut cream sauce to go with it.
*DROOLS*

The entire spread...
Fruit punch, mustache cookies, felafel balls 3 ways, jerk chicken, mango prawn rice paper rolls, pumpkin risotto, and pandan crepes.

Didn't make it in the photo include: Earl grey tea pannacotta (in the fridge), and bean salad (we just forgot about it cos there was so much food)

Up close and personal with the rice paper rolls.
Yum-ness

Jerk chicken, the most incredible flavours you can possibly imagine

Spinach and ricotta pie, tasty!

In honour of Movember, and since us ladies cannot grow one, someone made mustache cookies instead

A little bit here and a little bit there
Ricotta Spinach pie, jerk chicken, rice paper rolls, felafels with garlic yoghurt sauce (felafels of sweet potato, zucchini and carrot), and pumpkin risotto