turkey

turkey, turkey and more turkey - with gravy and cranberry sauce

Roasted a 5kg or so bird for Xmas (actually, on the 23rd) with whole potatoes and pumpkin and green beans on the side.
wish I had taken a photo....

Xmas cake was cut up and served for afternoon tea, together with mince pies and some fruit.

For the past few days we have rehashed the turkey into sandwiches and on toast for breakfast!
YUM gobble gobble!

Xmas 2009

We bought a 5kg turkey at Costcos around Thanksgiving time, and it has been sitting in the freezer waiting for its turn to shine. And that it did on Xmas!!

Since 23rd was a public holiday, we invited PIL over for lunch (I realised a few days before that J and his parents had assumed we would be doing dinner, which is what they seem to do in Japan, but since it was a public holiday it made more sense to do lunch. And we have ALWAYS done Xmas lunch (in Aus), so even tho it was 2 days in advance, we were doing lunch this year too!! lol.

I had thought of a few different things for lunch, but since it was only the 4 of us, decided that we should try to keep it a bit simple - cooking the turkey, a first for us in the new steam oven was going to be enough of a challenge, I reckoned anyway!!

So:

roast turkey with roast potatoes, steamed beans and honey glazed carrots, gravy and apple sauce (since left it to late to find cranberry sauce)

pressed salmon sushi

tabara crab (for the IL's. personally crab doesnt do much for me, esp. tabara which I find a bit watery always.)

pumpkin salad

christmas pudding with custard and whipped cream


and individual strawberry shortcakes for dessert for usand xmas pudding (Japanese style) for K