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Vietnamese coleslaw.... finely shredded cabbage and carrott (or greated carrot), thinly sliced spring onion, shredded left over roast chook (or Quorn substitute, or a shredded steamed chicken breats or prawns), julienne cucumber, coriander leaves (optional), toss together with a little bit of Vietnamese salad dressing... I get this one from...Coles or Woolies in the Asian section, the brand is Pandaroo. Coconut Coleslaw....is finely shredded cabbage, carrott, finely sliced capsicum strips, toasted shredded coconut (just chuck a handful in a frypan and toss until golden), grilled Pineapple chunks (I do them in a pan with a sprinkle of allspice and paprika then when they are a bit browned I chuck in a splash of rum and glaze until all the rum has cooked off)....once Pineapple is cooled toss together and add lemon or lime juice and a crack of pepper.

So our Christmas is a bit traditional Irish and then a totally multicultural free for all...there are cold roast chook and ham off the bone platters, salads, seafood and then a mishmash of many other cultures thrown in with Christmas pudding and truffle a must. So Sunday is my mums side of the family Christmas. We go to a park in a country town and bring a couple of plates (think pot luck)...stuff our faces....so being on the world's crappiest diet I'm taking food I can eat...this year that will be.... Thai prawn and rice salad Coconut Coleslaw or Vietnamese (coleslaw haven't decided yet) My mum is taking a fruit platter so I'll take desserts I can't eat Sicilian Orange Cake Coconut Ice

Here's an Aussie one just for Little Miss... hmm... maybe not....

So you northern types might need a translation on some of this....

Cleaning vomit from my daughters shoes and cloths.

^ oh those are our boys.... I once was a backup dancer for them a gazillion years ago for a single gig....back when they were Human Who??? ....benefit of going to catholic school run by Mary McKillop nuns. Meanwhile, back below the boarder I was listening to these guys....

8. Potato's In ya sport kit

6. Vegemite (we'll down her at least)

Oh so happy you will all be together this Chrissy @Cbdave .... your choccie moose and cream sounds great and I'll be having a go, will probably use monkfruit to sweeten or skip the water and sugar substitute and use maple syrup. The coconut cream would give it a choccie crackle flavour but if you chucked in some raspberries it would be a lamination moose...super excited to play with this. Peaches on dads tree aren't quiet ready yet but looking good fir a bumper crop this year and the ones from the farm in Bacchus have been super juicy.

@Gus I'm loving your new tradition. We have a trophy at Christmas, well 2....me mums side of the family has a trophy for the egg and spoon race. Me dads family has one for limbo....what hope for normality did I have.

There's gunna be recipies, of course, but the two foods I most associate with Christmas are cherries and mangos.... no chrissy table is complete without a bowl of fresh cherries and a fruit platter with lots of mango. So what foods signal Christmas to you. @Cbdave makes a ripper truffle that he shared the recipe for... I made it and now it's a big favourite with my mob too.

7. Avocados

When you live down under Christmas is usually hot, summery and well there just ain't no bloody snow.... so my Chrissy pressie to you mob this year is Aussie Chrissie songs or Chrissie songs sung by Aussies.....

3. Mangos

Wad popping in to suggest some normal sugar free gum too.

Love this for the Kiwi's, and think the way they are phasing it in is clever. So if you are 14 or under, it will never be legal for you to purchase smokes. The kiwi's are often the global trend setters for new social norms, first in the world to give women the vote now this. Tipping my mob will adopt this soon, we already have probative pricing, now in some states you need a medical prescription to buy a vape....looking forward to us copying the kiwi's lead on this one.

On the day me Kiwi cousins make smoking illegall.... it's 100% NOPE, NOPE, NOPITY NOPE!

FRIDEE....

FOR Thursday.. Remeberance Day..

Wednesdee... Daddy Cool....

First non-parent gig... Guns N Roses.. supported by Skid Row and Rose Tattoo 1993 at Calder Park...omg security frickin confiscated our block out, I still have faint scaring on my nose from the sunburn...Skid Row stole the fricken show. Followed up a month later with Jimmy Barnes at the Torquay Footy Ground...supported by Kings of the Sun and The Screaming Jets.

3. Chemical dunny

Yesterdee was 2 up Tuesdee and I missed me double post... in my opinion this is the greatest band Australia produced and chances are you've never heard if them....