Delectable Desserts, Christmas Style

Lindy’s ice cream pudding

No recipes for these (although I can put in a request from my mum for the cheesecake one if you want it, but I think the ice cream plum pudding is a family secret of my step-mum’s!), but I just wanted to share these pictures of some of the sweet goodies we enjoyed on Christmas Day.

I don’t usually eat sweet stuff much, but I could not resist the ice cream pudding, and boy was it amazing!

Hedgehog (above, on the same plate as the Christmas cake) is a staple sweet thing in my family – my mum is famous for hers. I thought I’d shared that recipe with you but I can’t find it, so I must not have…yet. And the Christmas cake is the dead easy low-fat one you can make at the last minute (we did pour some booze over it a few days before!).

Fruit salad is….well….fruit salad! And of course we had chocolates, chocolates and more chocolates. We totally forgot to get out the mince pies (bought ones, cos’ sometimes you just have to be lazy about things) and I don’t think we even had any shortbread this year. There’s always plenty to go around though, no one ever goes hungry on Christmas Day!!!

Happy Post-Christmas Fooding!

A BBQ Where There’s a Butcher Involved

In fact, the butcher was the host! Our friends Phil & Jodie held a housewarming bbq just after Christmas (this was where I discovered the luscious pear & feta platter), and as Phil is a butcher, the meat was absolutely divine. We had a smoked “turkey ham”, sliced and eaten cold, and it was sooooooo delicious, just melted in your mouth.

As well Phil had made his own creation, a version of a turducken and I am probably getting this wrong but I think it was pork inside chicken inside turkey. Actually Phil reads this so he will hopefully comment and correct me if I have mucked this up – whatever the combination, it was superb. Phil makes these only to order as they take several weeks to produce.

As well as the usual suspects like marinated chicken wings, we also had this large butterflied piece of lamb –

and some specially-aged (3 months??) wagyu steak, which unfortunately I didn’t get a photo of. Luckily, my friends are all well used to me poking my camera under their noses and taking photos of their meals all the time!

Jodie insists that she never cooks, but she managed to produce yummy salads (especially the couscous one, which had dried cranberries in it) and a gorgeous couple of desserts.

Here’s a plug for Terranova Butcher, for any of you that are in the Northbridge vicinity of Perth – thanks for the great bbq, Phil!

Happy Fooding!