Christmas is not much different to any other time to me, just a few pressies to open & PRAWNS with my meals. My usual meat & salad sandwich becomes prawn & salad, dinner of steamed or stirfry vegs is accompanied by prawns rather than chicken/beef/tofu, morning & afternoon tea fruit is replaced with crackers/oatcakes & prawns. Yum. I also buy a few slices of ham off the bone from the butcher or deli. More yum.

Some years back our office used to go to an international hotel for our Christmas lunch, where the buffet meals was fantastic - good quality house wine for the wine drinkers & lots of tasty food - hot, cold, vegetarian, seafood, desserts. etc. As I'm not a cake or dessert eater I always finished my meals with more prawns (yum)

A great time was had by all until they decided all guests were subsidised by their corporations (who told 'em that?), so they more than doubled the price to $100 per head. Naturally a bunch of lowly-ranked public servants could not afford that & we went to other venues.

But I missed my prawns, so each year I head to the fishmonger & buy 1 kg of prawns & for a few days I eat them with lunch, morning & afternoon tea & dinner. I finished the first half kilo batch yesterday & will buy the rest tomorrow.

Then it's back to ordinary but delicious food for another 12 months.

sandra