Stalk my Noms: Christmas Day Chow Down

The Spread

Here's a preview to our Christmas spread. I picked up the seafood from my friend's house on Christmas eve. This is the second year of ordering seafood through her and honestly I do not think I will go back to fighting crowds at Victoria Market. My order this year was raw prawns 2kg, one crayfish and one dozen of oysters. Winning! WINNING!

The Breakfast

I rewind you back to the breakfast. Avo on toast and smoked salmon with scrambled eggs. I love smoked salmon but cannot eat much of it. And you will notice one of those lovely balls again. Those balls should be in every dish, seriously.. balls. After I had breakfast, Pickles and I played with Mr Potato head. He later ran off somewhere else and I fell asleep. I fell asleep people! And I slept for 3hours and woke up at lunchtime. Still in my PJs.. I ran to the shower and quickly changed. Meanwhile .... this already happened! 

The Ham

The ham was baked and glazed while I was sleeping. This year our ham is 2.5kg (thank goodness smaller than last year) and from Happy Valley Free Range. It tasted amazeballs and Mick took pictures of the cooking process if anyone is interested in a recipe. Free range ham is really expensive, if I told you how much it cost you guys would pass out. But it's once a year.. and grandma taught me to eat well and save on other things. The problem is that I also spend way too much on other things!!

The Cray Cray

Then the cray cray... Check this bad boy out. It is so yummy and I am now converted. I think I would rather have this than prawns now. Honestly, so good! This was split already and seriously, how good does that look?

Chow Down begins

That's a picture of my plate. Loaded up with garlic prawns, crayfish, salad, oysters and glazed ham. The oyster was so creamy and plump, the ham just so tasty. Cray.. well, cray is my new love. Garlic prawns.. mmmm and my yummy salad! As long as there are those balls in there again and avo - I'm there!

Le Petit Gateau sélections

Dessert was a selection of yummies from Le Petit Gateau. Can't be stuffed organising dessert just for ourselves. On Christmas eve, we were heading to the city anyway. So we picked up - from left - Chocolate Brownie Gateau, Green tea cake, Hazelnut mille feuille. Without a doubt, the green tea is just going to be a hot favourite in this house for next time. My goodness .. get yourself to Le Petit Gateau and thank me next time.

What are you doing for your holidays? I'm just about sick of looking at leftover food and not being able to eat out! I actually had to cook leftovers today - more on that in another post. We also made strawberry ice cream with a $25 Aldi ice cream machine. The recipe was fantastic! And I can't wait to have it tonight when it is frozen hard. Other than that, I'm wanting to go to the Boxing day sales. Anyone braved it today? Merry Christmas once again!!