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Friday 11 January 2013

and so that was Christmas!

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Bit late posting about Christmas, but its better late than never!  We hosted breakfast at our place this year.  I kind of didn't realise this was happening until about a week before.  Because I was confused! anyway, I ummed and aahhed about what to make, and decided on corn fritters with haloumi and roasted tomatoes.

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Completely delicious was my verdict!  (for a version of the corn fritter recipe go here - I did not include the chilli or coriander.  TO roast the tomatoes, I simply chopped into quarters, sprinkled with some herbs - oregano, pepper, thyme, salt, and roasted in a medium oven until they were looking mighty fine - probably about 40 minutes!!)

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then it was off to my uncle's for Christmas lunch!!


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prawns are a fairly traditional entree around here!!  I just eat the seaweed salad!!

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for the main part of lunch, we had a rather impressive line up of salads, and some cold meats
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I made the chickpea and pumpkin salad again - no fetta this time, and I roasted my chick peas in some soy and lemon juice to make them a little tastier.

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I also made this rather beautifully purple beetroot and quinoa salad. recipe can be found here

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for dessert, there was Christmas Pudding!!!!

and my favourite of all favourite things......


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berries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and just in case there was a smidgen of room left in our bellies, to finish, a few delicacies to have with coffee
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that's, cinnamon shortbread, Nigellas Puddini Bon Bons and Nigellas Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, (I get the recipes out of her books, but those do link to versions of the recipes - I didn't really follow the bon bon recipe, because we have no alcohol in the house, so I used a bit of juice instead!)




2 comments:

  1. Chick pea and pumpkin salad sounds awesome. I love chick peas

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