Category: Traditions-Feasts
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Traditional Christmas Dinner – Part A
This post, and the next two, are from an article we wrote for Club Marine magazine in 1993. (Use the Print button at the top of this page for a hardcopy or pdf of the recipe in this post.) What is a traditional Australian Christmas dinner? There is no strict formula for a traditional Australian…
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Champagne-Style Cocktail – With Pernod!
This is our version of an exotic Champagne-style cocktail. It is quite affordable and very popular with our friends. We came across it more or less accidentally when, some years ago, we had made a Pernod based granita for dessert. Some days later there was still quite a lot of the granita in the freezer,…
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Hot Cross Buns
For many of us, Easter means chocolate eggs and hot cross buns. We can’t tell you how to make Easter eggs, but here is a photo of some. It was taken on a boat called Coral II when we were in the Galapagos Islands during Easter last year! We can, however, give you our version…
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Recipes for Australia Day
This time of the year, at least in the southern states of Australia, the flowering gums are glorious. It is also when we celebrate Australia Day, on January 26. It is a contentious date because it celebrates white settlement in Australia. The issue has been thoughtfully addressed here. In 2015 the Prime Minister and Leader…
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For New Year’s Eve
We will spend this New Year’s Eve at a friend’s apartment which has a wonderful view over Melbourne. There will be a dozen or so of us, starting around 8.30 pm. The aim is to make it through to midnight, waiting for the fireworks. Everyone will ‘bring a plate’ and, no doubt, there will be…
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A Salad for Christmas Day
This was one of the surprise dishes for us in 2015. It is what we will be preparing this Christmas. Rhonda’s family have their Christmas dinner in the evening and there is always a big crowd. Always our role is to prepare the entree, while others contribute with turkey and ham, vegetables in different guises,…
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Traditional Christmas Cake
I doubt you will find a better Christmas cake recipe than this one. It is based on one given in the Melbourne Age in 1982 by Beverley Sutherland Smith. She described it as the style of traditional cake which people expect to see on the table at Christmas time: rich, full of fruit and very…