Christmas Day 2008

Today has been a rather unusual christmas day for us, being the first one ever where we have been away from family. It hasn't been a bad one at all though. After breakfast we had a swim in the pool, and then spent a while phoning family and texting friends our seasons greetings before getting ready (by wetting our palates with a glass of the Chombard and lemonade that Deb bought us for christmas) to go to lunch at a local restaurant "Watergate". We spoiled ourselves just a little bit ... check out the entree: Chef's tasting plate containing tasmanian oysters, local tiger prawns, morton bay bugs in rice paper rolls with green chilli soy, seared scallops with coconut cumin dressing and soft shell crab in tempura batter stuffed with local coral trout. It was totally awesome and decadent ... check out the remains :)


After washing that down with a few glasses of semillion sauvignon blanc, the main was served: shaved pickled pork with pecorino & apple balsamic, rare roast beef with horseradish cream, roasted turkey with cranberry relish, roasted butternut pumpkin, new potatoes, glazed carrots, minted peas, broccolini and gravy. Dessert was a christmas pudding with vanilla anglaise and vanilla ice cream. Mmmmmm...
Totally stuffed we went back to the resort for a nap, and then a bit of a wander along 4 mile beach, another swim in the pool and just a while ago we cracked a bottle of Sav Blanc to get ourselves ready for the stuffed rolled chicken that's in the oven roasting

We hope you all had an equally pleasant day. Wishing you all a very merry and safe christmas

(ps: please excuse the camera-phone quality of the pics!)