Christmas 2008

Every year, my husband's family and mine rent a house at Echo Point in the Blue Mountains. We always get the same house as it's huge, lovely and just right for the 10 of us. This year it seemed that some were out to ruin Christmas with last minute cancellations but despite this, and the many, many changes of plans we still had a fantastic Christmas, made even better because of the absence of Grinches! :)

We had a range of foods for breakfast including of course French Toast with bacon and blueberry jam. During the day copious amounts of Watermelon (from a sweet and juicy 11kg behemoth melon) were consumed, one night was a Pot Luck plate dinner with Hawaiian bean salad, noodles, cheeses and dips.

The highlight was the Christmas Day BBQ which featured a Coke Butt Chicken (a Coke version of the Beer Butt Chicken, click here for the recipe), Eumundi Sausages in 3 flavours (Pork & Ginger; Chicken & Leek and Beef, Tomato & Spinach); vegetarian sausages, tofu patties, coleslaw, freshly buttered corn, caramelised onions, asparagus, rolls, and of course for dessert, gleaming Maple Cheesecake (recipe to come) and sweet, juicy watermelon.

Cooked Eumundi's - yum!

The Eumundi sausages, which were a bit of a race around to buy as they weren't answering their phone so we couldn't find out their opening hours, were finally procured at the Fox Studios markets. The Pork & Ginger was a coarse grind sausage, heady in ginger. The Chicken and Leek were my favourite, a mild finely ground sausage and the beef, tomato were delicious with a fantastic flavour to them.