Am Loolah

Just wondering what everyone's doing for dinner tomorrow?

Last year, our first Christmas in NZ, we had the traditional roast turkey and all the trimmings. By the time we sat down to it with sweat dripping off our brows everyone was too hot to eat!

This time, despite the rain today, we are hoping for BBQ weather tomorrow. We are having the traditional Kiwi ham, wasabi new potato salad, tomato salad with basil and feta, green salad, coconut, chili and lime prawns on the BBQ, garlic and lemon prawns (BBQ) and crayfish!

Yummie!!! Can't wait!!

Anyone got anything new they are trying?

Kiwiprincess

Um....remembering I am a kiwi....


Traditional Roast Turkey, Traditional Roast Ham, Traditional Roast Chicken, boiled potatoes, roasted potatoes, jacket potatoes (i can see a theme), roasted vegetables (apart from the potatoes!) including peas, parsnips (i think),kumara and punkin.

Followed by pavlova, sherry trifle, meringues, and some weird ice cream thing my cousin makes which tastes divine.

Oh, and salads too. Definitely salads - med salads, greek salads, bean salads, indian rice salads, some weird egg and potato salad.

I would love a BBQ on the beach but that's not how it is done in my family. And for all the people that say it is normal - I don't know anyone who does have that kind of christmas. Weird. You would think I would if it was that common.

BBQ on Boxing Day is likely though. I may have to skip it though because I plan to go to the Church of Westfield and Pray to the Great God Portmans.


And finally, a shedload of Sangria. I have to buy a case of wine for it all today so I can make some.

P2L

Steak and prawns on the Barbie for lunch then off to mates house later

love30stm

Well our first christmas, was a barbecue, this Christmas, will be breakfast smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, then a traditional Turkey with all the trimmings, and a nice cooked ham, Christmas pudding, brandy cream...

started on the wine already and the sausage rolls and chocolates, will be the gym and diet in the new year again!!!

kiwichicks

Our first Christmas and I never done the turkey meal in UK and not going to break this year, I love to play with the kids seeing what santa brings them
So we are having crossiants strawberries and champange for brunch and then for tea pealla that can be shimmering away whilst I play
Hope you all have a good Christmas

D

pixi-dust

it's a barby.

We've got poussins - but I'm having chicken ( have a thing about eating teeny tiny birds!) a pheasant, a ham, and roast potatoes, and cray fish. Salad
A giant pav for desert.
I know it sounds like loads but there's a big crowd of us.
Also the forecast is very good - I think.

Batty

We spend Christmas with my Kiwi inlaws and that's our dinner too! I'd quite like Am Loolah's or Pixie Dust's but I don't think they could cope with the loss

BEVS

For the first time in 5 years, we spent Christmas Day quietly in our own home & splashed out on a traditional turkey roast.

Smoked salmon and scrambled egg for breakfast.
A walk along the Waimea estuary and around Mapua.

Roast turkey - sorta Jamie Oliver style with all the trimmings.
Christmas Pud.

Pop to see neighbours and friends locally and had a few pop to see us.

Laters - chill and listen to music whilst a-sittin' on the deck.

Cold cuts & salad tea . Mince pies and cheeses

Laze on sofas watching a recorded Oliver Twist.

minky

We had our Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve turkey etc then after all the present opening took the turkey sandwiches loaded the car up and spent the day at Port Waikato Beach

kiwinow

We had the whole trad roast lamb and a turkey rolled roast, but it was kind of cold and raining here so it didn't seem out of place. We were all fulll and went for a walk to visit friends for drinks and then came home at around 4pm for dessert and had left overs, salad and buns for tea.

CarolineSwan

Well we went to papamoa to spend it with our freinds....

We had Ham chicken totties with skins on homemade coleslaw, salad and a brown rice salad thing which was to die for also garlic bread and mint peas then for afters pavlova fruit salad and this trifle my friends mum made which was nicest i have ever eaten (sry gran) finished off with a bottle of wine and a few hours at the beach ... then later on we all had left overs

Got to say best xmas off my life, who would want the horrible cold frost when you can have the beach , know what i prefer lol

glad to be home in NP though

teebrown

What is traditional Kiwi Ham?? I mean is it cooked in a certain way, what makes it Kiwi?

Am Loolah

No, it's just traditional to the kiwi's to have a ham at Christmas, some say more so than a turkey.

Kiwiprincess

Definitely more traditional to have a glazed ham.

I have to fight to gets me a turkey. Turkey just doesn't seem to have the same significance.

Actually, I realised that we had exactly what I predicted but got to work it off with Killer Volleyball which was fantastic. Basically, it was a team game - if you 'went' for the ball and missed then you were 'out'.

Last one standing wins.