Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 5:43PM Wow! It has been a busy year - I can't believe it is almost 2020 and I did a total of three blogposts this year. Well luckily, like everyone, I am going to be a new and better person come the new year. Hopefully my new year's resolutions this year will make it longer than I can count in days on one hand...
Have a Merry Christmas all and cheers to a prolific 2020! ;-)
Monday, December 29, 2014 at 8:48PM 
A belated Merry Christmas to you all! I am just awaking, bleary eyed and pot bellied, from a food coma.
My sister and I spent Christmas with our dear friend Chrissie and her family in Cambridge. Chrissie makes a fantastic roast and was responsible for convincing me a few years back that turkey doesn’t have to be a dry and dull affair when treated correctly. Still, I was very excited to discover a few weeks ago that we’d be having crown of pork instead; I’d choose fatty, juicy pork and crispy crackling over turkey any day.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 11:39AM 
A belated Merry Christmas everyone, and a Happy New Year. For the first time since my childhood, I am actually awake and active on New Year’s Day. I must be getting old.
I have been doing lots of eating and drinking in Sydney, so much I am not sure I will ever have time to blog about it all. For now, here are some photos of the things I ate over Christmas. I’m afraid due to copious amounts of alcohol, which affects both my sight and my patience, they get rather blurry as the nights progress…
Prawns with Dad's "benchmark" aioli
Ceviche canape
Har gau (prawn dumpling) steaming
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 11:04PM Last Saturday we had a Christmas party for our Anthropology of Food course. One of my classmates, Maria, kindly hosted the event and the idea was that everyone bring something that is eaten in their home country at Christmas.
Well, rules are made to broken and I was the first one to do so. I was planning to make this:
... a canape my family almost always have either on Christmas Eve or Day in Australia, though I can't speak for other families.
Instead I made this:
... which we have never had on Christmas, but I couldn't find the pork mince I needed in Sainsbury's and I felt like making the tart.
Juliana also broke the rules with a palm heart pie, which like her was Brasilian, though not Christmassy:
Monday, December 27, 2010 at 2:26PM Hello, I have just woken up from a food coma.
I got to Oz safe and sound, so safely and soundly, in fact, that I am still waiting for something disastrous to happen. So far the only misfortune I have suffered is that I got sick on the day I left – swollen glands, headache, blocked nose and no voice – which is not much fun on a 22 hour flight. Now six days later I am still croaky and snotty because the ‘Christmas spirit’ (read excessive drinking) and flu don’t make for a very good match, but were both were unavoidable.
I can speak again now, but cognitive activity is still limited, so I am going to let the images do the talking. Show and no tell.
Olive, goat's cheese and roast cherry tomato tartlets