Christmas Dinner: Entrees Water Biscuits

When you entertain people, there will be guests who will come early and those who comes late. As a gracious host, you can prepare these, they can help you too!



The ingredients can be really simple too. Depending on what you would like to serve and your budget. We had our 10 year old cousins helped us, this platter that you see is their creation.

You can get water wafers or biscuits from Cold Storage or Carrefour etc. We usually get Carr's. But this time, we found out the Rye Wafers that are really tasty in Carrefour, and it's on super specials at only $1!!! It taste superb for our toppings.

The toppings we had were: Black Peppercorn Smoked Salmon, Jap Cucumbers, Aust Cheese (Brie), Tartare Sauce, and a few cans of Ayam Brand Tuna mixes. Mix and match whatever combi you like.

Christmas Dinner: Fruit and Veg Salad

Here's something really simple. It's very easy yet so delicious. Also it does not contain dressing with ingredients that you dont understand.



If you want to know what's inside: 1 Green Apple, 1 Fuji Apple, 1 Red Capsicum, 1 Yellow Capcisum, 1 Green Capcisum, 3-4 sticks of celery, 1 carrot, 1 bag green seedless grapes, 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, 5-6 slices of sundried tomatoes, 1 lime, 4-5 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, 1 tiny bunch of english parsley.

Cut them all up, most of them into cubes. Sundried tomatoes and parsley and chopped up finely. Cherry tomatoes in halves, grapes whole and xapcicums in half rings. Tossed them into a mixing bowl, shake it well and store it in the fridge for a few hours, so you can serve them really cold. Do you realise the dressing is only olive oil and lime. It's very light!

Christmas Dinner: A ring of cold prawns.

If you are having friends over, this dish is superbly easy to make. But it's a bit time consuming. This is part of our Christmas Menu this year.

Buy as much prawns as you wish to serve. A quick boil in some salted water, and then peel the shells off, but leave the tail part on. Store them in the fridge until ready to serve. Serve with Thousand Island or what I usually prepare is Tartate Sauce mix with 1 teaspoon of curry powder. You can prepare them half a day or one day in advance and store in the fridge too! Delicious!



You can arrange them in tall glasses, a ring of prawns. But since we are preparing for 30 people, we put them in a big bowl, with the dips in the small bowl.