ALL OVER FOR ANOTHER YEAR

Well that's Christmas for another year.

We've feasted on ham on the bone - No, we haven't eaten it all yet, there was 10kg of it !!

We carved about 2kg of it to take as our contribution along with a lovely crunchy wombok and noodle salad to out family gathering with Tony's side of the family.

Earlier in December we travelled to Hervey Bay and put on a Christmas spread for the rellies up there as well as Mum and Dad. Cold chicken and ham and the wombok salad again as it is Dad's favourite. 

Add a warm potato bake followed by Christmas Pudding with custard and cream and they were happy.

It gets more difficult every year to bring them out of the care facility but they enjoy the outing as long as we don't keep them too long.

This is the ham.

It is the highlight of Christmas for me.

Glazed with marmalade and Dijon mustard there is nothing to beat it.

On Christmas Eve at home we three ( Tony, Sally and I ) sat down to delicious rolled turkey breast and hot ham with roast veggies

This has become a new tradition over the last few years since we  can be cool in  the air conditioning.

do you see the roast pumpkin there in the photo? ( you may know it as butternut Squash)

An Aussie roast dinner would not be the same without roast pumpkin.

 Give it a go !!

Followed it up with Christmas pud  - AGAIN !

So by the end off Christmas Day we have effectively had THREE Christmas meals !

Boxing Day was spent lazing around and nibbling on leftover ham, turkey, potato salad, Christmas pudding, trifle plus cheese, nuts, shortbread and Christmas cake!!!!!

The weather has been very pleasant and relatively cool. 

Never-the-less the aircon has been blasting away and lots of relaxation has happened.

Reading, watching tv, listening to talking books, puzzles have all be indulged in and we are feeling very relaxed .

So today Tony and I were feeling the need of fresh horizons and a cool breeze to take the sting out of the 30 degree heat.

We drove to a place called Woody Point - about an hour and fifteen minutes from home to a quiet little spot on the shores of Moreton Bay.

We found ourselves a table mostly in the shade where a cool breeze was blowing off the sea and polished off more ham in the form of sandwiches for him and salad for me.

Before we set off home again we followed the path along the shore for as far  as it would go without giving us sunstroke.

Now it's Sunday night and what's for dinner?

I haven't shopped for more than a week so it was just a matter of gathering all the bits and pieces of veggies and egg, ham, cheese and a bit of milk and cream and putting them together to make a delicious frittata.

There it is going into the oven...……..

and here it is coming out.

It makes a nice change to all the salads we have been having and we should have enough for tomorrow perhaps with a bit of steak on the BBQ.

And that puts to an end the eating marathon that is Christmas.

Everyone in this house is severely overweight and so the usual vows have been made about weight loss.

Let's hope we are more successful than in previous years.

Cheers.