Chrissy Fare.... what's Christmas Food for you?

[notsmokinjo]

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.

[Kris]

Well when the family was still here it was a prime rib roast and and all the fixings,  There are not many of us left and we don't get together.  I will do a layered egg an mushroom dish, with sausage balls, biscuits and honey butter.  Dinner a small filet and lobster with veg. Since it is only me I just keep it simple

[Gus]

My family has stopped the traditional Christmas meal and every year we have a cook-off! This year it’s ribs! Nonparticipants provide the sides and desserts. There is even a trophy! 

[notsmokinjo]

@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.

[Gus]

@notsmokinjo LOL Hilarious! There are a lot of ‘well over 6 feet and 200-300lb’ nephews in my family that I would love to see Limbo! BaHaHaHa We do an egg and spoon race at Easter.

[Cbdave]

G’day 

The borders are coming down from this COVID mess we having been living in and we will have our youngest up from Melbourne. We haven’t seen him in 3 years so Christmas is very dear to us this year.

Christmas is at my nephews in the shade of a marque. Heaps of tiger prawns and Morten bay bugs and cold slices of leg ham and heaps of salads. Couple of trays of mangos and cherrys of course. I’ve put a special order from my son for him to bring us some peach’s. they are so much better from Victoria.

No overweight triffle this year. Me and my sweetheart are off the sugars and carbs and the weight is peeling off. 
A quick recipe for joe for guilt free chocolate moose and cream.

Choc moose

Couple of ripe avacardo into a blender 

Add sweetener of choice I use cal free stevia 

vanilla 

a good coco powder

teaspoon chilled water

blend till thick and Chocolaty 

Non dairy cream

a can of coconut milk leave in the fridge for 6 hours.

open and the can and spoon the cream that seperates from the water.

In to the bender and whip till creamy. You can add suger and vanilla but I don’t bother. 
Alternate layers of choc moose and cream in a glass and refrigerate. Trust me  don’t tell them what’s in it and they will not ask.

Pic doesn’t show them in fancy glasses but they taste as good

[Gus]

@Cbdave I do hope that your Christmas Holiday turns out especially well this year! Enjoy your family! Yeah I had to look up Morten bay bugs. LOL 

[Linda]

@CbdaveSounds like you have a wonderful Christmas planned!!

Enjoy your family!! Merry Christmas to you and yours

[notsmokinjo]

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.

[KEL]

Not to be a ding-dong but its so odd to think that Christmas is in the middle of the summer for you aussies! Thank you @Cbdave for the recipe. It looks gluten free as well so I may just whip that up. We hope to be enjoying a white christmas here in the Rockies/Sangres. Sadly things are desperately parched.

[Rozuki]

When I was younger, we celebrated Christmas Day with my Mom's side of the family. She and her sister and brothers would alternate yearly who would be hosting the event. We would have cold cuts and salads. My Mom was the potato salad queen, her sister was the macaroni salad (with shrimp!) queen, another aunt was the coleslaw queen. The cold cuts would be thin sliced boiled ham, turkey and roast beef all nicely rolled up and put on platters. Rolls and rye bread (seeded/unseeded) fresh from the local bakery. There was a bowl filled w fruit cocktail and some oranges that were quartered.

 

Dessert was two cakes that Mom would bake....one for me and one for my sister as our birthdays were just before and just after Christmas! Devil's food w white icing for me and yellow cake w chocolate icing for my sister. No canned icing either.... Mom made that from scratch... it was the best!

 

Some years it even snowed that day but we never had to cancel the Christmas Party....to me... this was Christmas! 

[Doreensfree]

Still traditional here ....full works ...all the trimmings ....and Christmas Pudding and brandy custard ...

Ill run harder later

[Doreensfree]

The guy next door he just knocked with some home made mince pies ...

Got to say ,they look kinds delicious ...but the proof is in the eating ...

[catlover]

I made some gingerbread men last week, for family for Christmas, unfortunately, I’ve eaten them all

[notsmokinjo]

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

[Cbdave]

Coconut coleslaw or Vietnamese coleslaw …….tell me more?

[Kris]

I agree tell us more. Have not heard of them. This could be a new addition to many a table/

[notsmokinjo]

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.

 

[Kris]

They both sound great. Is it sweetend coconut like use for baking?

K

[Cbdave]

G’day Jo

Tonight I’m doing Barra fillets with Thai green curry and coconut cream in banana leaves on the bbq. Got to have something really bold to go with that. Recon that pineapple coleslaw will fit the bill. Thanks champion!

Food porn pics to follow…..

 

[notsmokinjo]

3 hours ago, Kris said:

They both sound great. Is it sweetend coconut like use for baking?

K

Um not sure...shredded coconut is like dried strip's of coconut pretty sure it's not sweetened....looking for a pic to share.

[notsmokinjo]

4 hours ago, Kris said:

They both sound great. Is it sweetend coconut like use for baking?

K

Um not sure...shredded coconut is like dried strip's of coconut pretty sure it's not sweetened....looking for a pic to share.

So down here it's unsweetened but you could use sweetened.

[Cbdave]

G’day Jo

hah struck to your recipes but no Bundy rum….bummer.  Paprica and all spice great! Toasted coconut why not! Lemon juice and black pepper. Well that tied it together. Again thanks

[Cbdave]

G’day 

Now for the barramundi. Green Thai curry paste. Coconut cream and fish sauce. Some lemon myrtle leaves and Thai Basel. 

[Cbdave]

G’day 

25 mins on the Grill