Christmas at the McLaren’s
Christmas, what a fantastic time of year! Its where places come alive with family, food and celebrations. Our family (including extended) come together every year to celebrate this occasion. Our yearly ritual (similar to others) is present time in the morning followed by a mammoth feast. The thing that makes us a little different is the dessert! We tend to have more dessert options than mains! This is followed by an afternoon nap before indulging in more food!
DATE: 25th Dec 2012 (of course!)
VENUE: Cowra, Country NSW.
FLICKS TAKE ON THE NIGHT:
I swear it was only 1 month ago we were celebrating Christmas in 2011, however 2012 has flown by and BAM Christmas is here again. In saying this, I do love Christmas. I would put it as my favourite time of the year. Family, presents, more presents and best of all, a few weeks of hard core eating!
Presents time!
I was in charge of the family feast with help from my partner in crime- Genevieve. Our celebration reflected Australian Style including prawns, freshly shucked oysters (Thanks Mr FYF) and of course a cooked ham and turkey.
Little Sebastian loving presents
My sister, mum and I had the majority of the food made on Chrissy eve with only a few things needed to be done on Christmas day- the best way. One tradition is mums pavolva. Many shells don’t make the cut, as they are not absolutely perfect.
Table Decorations including homemade Bon Bons
Within 10 mins of the feast been over, all of us were indulging in a nap!
Crashed out (note this is not a set up shot- they were both fast asleep within an hour).
THE FOOD:
Lime and Macadamia cooked Ham
Turkey with Cranberry Sauce
Prosciutto with stuffing balls (fig and pistachio)
Yasna’s Salad
Crunchy parsnips with parmesan and polenta
Roast carrots with Pine nuts
Popcorn Prawns with aioli
Fresh cooked prawns
Large pacific oysters
Waldorf salad with prosciutto
The Christmas Feast!!!
THE DESSERT:
Mums Famous pavlova
Chocolate pavlova
Adults Chocolate Mousse
Lemon Cheesecake with salted caramel sauce
Candy cane and marshmallow macarons
Berry ice cream slab
Dessert Table
Here is for another Year.
I hope you also had an awesome Chrissy filled with fun, family and food. Thank you to my readers for their comments and love over the past year.
A new addition to the McLaren Family- Daisy with my dog Bruce Wayne
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Oh wow what a wonderful feast you had! So many desserts… YUM. Christmas is a time best spent with family and you looked like you had a lovely time (:
Thanks, our family love our desserts :) I hope you had a great Christmas
Thankyou to my wonderful family all managing with their busy lives to all be here for Christmas. Thankyou Flick, Khanh and Genevieve for the feast you managed to serve up. Also a big thankyou to Yasna also who spent a number of hours chopping, slicing and washing up as well
What an amazing smorgasbord of delicious and mouth watering food! Any chance of getting an invite to next Christmas? By the way, your dogs are so so cute!
There’s just as many desserts as there are mains – I’m loving it! Hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Flick! x
Hi Tina, I had a great chrissy and new year. I hope your chrissy and new year was fantastic as well.
Delicious! And oh Daisy is just adorable!
What a fabulous Christmas feast! And how adorable is that shot with your puppy? Happy New Year to you and your family!! :)
whoah girlllllll look at all those presents! I am not sure which would be higher if you were to stack all the presents up, the tree or the stash lol. Happy New year as well Flick!
LOL I love that your dog is named Bruce Wayne. That is sooo cool. Those puppy shots were super adorable! Amazing looking Chrissy spread too!