This was officially my third Christmas in Sydney, as home. The first two Chrissy celebrations had been spent with Lee's family - one in the Sutherland shire and last year in the hot and quiet Hunter Valley.
We weren't going to do any of the above this year, and half of me was a little down and bothered about not having the yummy Christmas feast like my dad cooks up back in KL. Lee was also feeling a bit traditional - and spoke about how his old boss traditionally gave out Christmas ham leg to employees. So I said, why not have a ham this year?
Plans came together very last minute. Say - two weeks before. And the Christmas menu was increasing, even though the guest list wasn't. How were we going to feed two mouths with a bloody big ham leg?!
Lee chimes in to say, "That's why there's the ham bag - you keep it as leftovers for a month!"
Gaack!
The week of Christmas, we had a 5kg ham in the fridge and accumulating ingredients for a Raspberry Chocolate Custard Trifle, roast potatoes, chocolate mint bark, salad, cheese board and a delish Adriano Zumbo Christmas pudding. It wasn't long after when the turkey was added.
Thankfully, Lee's mum said she and her partner would spend Christmas dinner with us.
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