till the fat man comes. The kids are excited. Kady really wants a new mobile phone but has no chance of getting one lol and Leah's wish list changes daily.
We are exhausted today. We got up at 5 and headed off to the Victoria Market this morning. It took us half and hour just to drive along the road that runs beside the market and then park. I think everyone had the same idea of getting there early. We spent up big. Lots of meat for the freezer. There are so many bargains there.
We bought
Blue Grenadier ($5.95 a kg)
t-bone steak ($10 kg)
diced topside (2 kg for $10)
sirloin steak (trays for $10)
rump steak (trays for $10)
mince (2kg for $10)
pork chops ($5.95 kg and they are huge and look so yum)
lamb chops
4 homemade dips (spring onion, hommus, spinach and pinenut and smoked trout)
quince paste
3 tapenades
Turkish delight
wedding sausage and juniper berry sausage
various deli meats for platters tomorrow
sundried tomatoes
marinated baby octopus (Jason's fav but not mine)
marinated mushrooms
marinated calamari (done in lemon and oregano)
smoked chilli mussels (another of Jason's favs)
stuffed olives
Turkish bread
pork pies
cherries ($10 a kg, they had some for $7 per kg but the dearer ones looked much nicer)
strawberries
Prawns ($30 a kg for the biggies)
Oysters ($10 kg)
Tomorrow Jason's Dad and his fiance and Grandfather are coming over. I am doing platters of cheeses, dips, crackers, breads, deli meats, all the antipasto stuff etc and a few different deserts.
Yesterday I made almond fingers dipped in chocolate and today I made a layered deserts in glasses for tomorrow ( have to make more again for Christmas day to take to Jason's brothers). The bottom layer is white chocolate cream (just melt white chocolate and fold through the extra thick cream), next layer is mixed berries (from the freezer department), next layer is custard and finish off with strawberries cut up. I also made a raspberry cream today. Frozen raspberries folded through whipped cream (add icing sugar to help sweeten and makes it a little stiffer). Tomorrow I will put the cream in little meringue cases and top with sugar frosted berries and cachous ( I also have to make more of these for Christmas day).
On the way home from the market we stopped at Highpoint for our annual Christmas pic with Santa. The girls weren't very dressed up after being at the market but at least we have a nice picture. I thought Highpoint would be packed with shoppers but it was no worse than normal thank goodness. The Santa and helpers in Myers are so good when taking photos. There was a little girl before my two and they spent at least ten minutes getting a good picture of her smiling and checking that Mum was happy with the image on the screen before they printed it off. Beats the pubescent Santa we visited (only time we haven't been to Myer) a few years ago.
We are now home and exhausted. Looking forward to tomorrow. Love entertaining. I have laid out all the Christmas chocolates and whilst I was outside gardening this afternoon Leah ate about 1/2 a kilo of cherries. Guess who is banned from eating any more.
4 comments:
wishing you all a merry christmas to all the family in austrailia always thinking of dont write very often but always thinking of you love you lots the logie clan
can we come for christmas the food you are doing sounds fantastic ,happy christmas to everyone in australia love the isted family in england xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To all my Family in the uk, Merry Christamas and a Happy new year.
Miss you all.
Merry Christmas to you Dawn and Jason and Kady and Leah, miss you all love you lots.
Hope next year will be kinder to us all and pray to god that we all have good health and that Dawn will be well, that is my wish for next year.
Just to see my kids well and happy is all I need for Christmas.
What a busy time for you - looks like you certainly did buy up big at the markets (I hope you had the trailer on the back LOL). Love the santa photo - it's sad but I've never had one done of the girls with Santa :-P
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