Christmas Fare At The Aunts'

Forget the turkey, ham and roast beef. I'm not big on them at all. Since there were other dishes on the table, I went for those instead! In fact, the pastas and salads were my favorites. The roasted turkey skin's pretty nice though.

What's Christmas without the Aunts' homemade gravy for all the food and their traditional dish of ox tongue (not from a tin)! Loved the onion bits and mash.

Despite the transport chaos all over UK, the pre-ordered fruitcakes and stuff from Country Fare and other stores arrived in the nick of time. The items were sent rather late from their promised dates of delivery, but at least it got here before Christmas. The fruit cake is an excellent cake heavy with Scotch whisky (of unknown origins) and lots of fruit. While we could really taste the whisky, the cake was still rather sweet.

We've been given a solid block of goose liver and champagne parfait and another identical fruit cake. Since the man's parents love ox tongue, we've been gifted a tin of cured ox tongue with jelly, all to take home to rainy Singapore. I've a feeling we're going to bust our luggage limit with these tins and bottles.

Like all Christmas feasting, we start at 1pm and the eating doesn't end till the food finishes. By that time, it'd be 5pm thereabouts. Add the variety of steaming hot teas and logcakes paraded out, it'd be more like 6pm. We're so full till we can't even stomach the thought of any more food for dinner. So for Christmas meals, just that one mega meal a day fill us up nicely. Burrrrrp. A supper of bread and soup would do for later perhaps.