This year we had our Cheng Christmas celebration early as mum and dad were heading to Hong Kong before Christmas day. This worked out quite well actually as we were able to spread out the feasting over a week, and be able to full enjoy every course! I can't claim much credit to the meal as Bec was hosting and did most of the work, including the menu planning (albeit a month in advance!). Paul prepared his special chicken and i helped to buy the roast duck from Cabramatta!
Of the decorations, we had some creativity this year with mum's very professional almond cookie momentos, Sandy's sparkly place-holders and Bec's DIY explosive bon bons with random 'useful' tidbits from around the Cheng household (including superglue, Minnie mouse magnets, band-aids, sticky-note and pencil etc). Creative, useful but a little bit strange!
This year we also did Secret Santa - but realised half of use don't know the rules to the 'secret' part of it.. oh well, try again next year!
This year we also did Secret Santa - but realised half of use don't know the rules to the 'secret' part of it.. oh well, try again next year!
The Menu
Entreés
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| Cold meat and cheese platter |
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| Soy-garlic king prawns |
First course
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| Rosemary roast lamb with chat potatoes |
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| Bec's quinoa salad with roasted leek, haloumi, fresh herbs and pomegranate |
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| Paul's special chicken with sweet potato |
There was also a roasted pumpkin, spinach, feta and pine nuts salad that i forgot to document but can be seen on my plate ~ along with some confetti from the explosive bon bon! :)
Second course
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| As tradition, to celebrate Mario's favourite dish - Peking duck! This year he convinced us we should have it for second course, but of course by then most of us were full (well, at least the non-Cheng's) so Mario had most of it to himself! Sneaky plan indeed... |
No dessert as usual as we are always too full!
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