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Posted by FarmI on December 21, 2007, 3:02 pm
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>> I was helping a friend to move house today. She is Canadian born and has
>> only had one Xmas in Oz so far and we talked about her thoughts on a
>> midsummer Xmas. She was complaining about the snaowy Christmas carols in
>> the middle of summer and that the food wasn't right. When I asked her
> what
>> she's eaten last Xmas, she had seafood and salads. I told her that
>> wasn't
>> Xmas at all - one had to cook the turkey and roast vegetables while it
>> was
>> 40degreesC in the kitchen and top that off with the hot Plum Pudding
>> which
>> was brought to the table flaming. And at 3.00pm one collapses into bed
>> to
>> sleep it all off complaining bitterly of having eaten too much rich food
> and
>> how bloody hot it was.
> I have a knitting friend in Australia, and she spoke of barbecuing the
> turkey
> outside along with veggies etc to help keep the kitchen "cooler".
Yes, that is often done too. I would imagine she has a Weber BBQ kettle or
perhaps one of the big BBQs with a close down lid. We have a Weber but for
an important meal like the Christmas bash, I prefer to do the roasting in
the oven as the Weber doesn't give as good a result for roasting - the
flavour isn't quite as it should be when done in the oven.
She did
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> mention having yet to make her Xmas pudding. The last e-mail she sent
> spoke of a different meal - paella, Morocan lemon chicken, Italian bread,
> dips and seafood.
Except for the Christmas Pudding, that menu sounds like she might be of
Italian origins???????? My neighbour (who is a chef) is married to a
gorgeous Italo-Australian chap and she complains bitterly about what he and
his family consider to be Christmas fare - "bloody pasta: for Christmas!" is
a direct quote from her. As I have no direct experience of Italo-Australian
Christmas celebrations, I couldn't comment :-)).
She mentioned the forecast for her area was only 23°
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> Celcius, which would be a lot more bearable. She also mentioned they
> had been getting rain which was sorely needed.
Oh yes! Glorious rain! 7 years of drought here so to see green again is
very uplifting - best Christmas present ever, even though I have a mountain
of washing that I need to get done and out on the line.
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> A friend in Nebraska usually has dinner at her mom's, and they have
> lasagna, salads and such.
Not my idea of Christmas fare because I can have that any day of the year.
Christmas with all the trimmings is a once a year thing (thank God) :-))
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> We will be travelling west (2 hrs) for the traditional turkey and all the
> trimmings, with all the nice assorted Christmas baking that goes along
> with it. Yum. And I don't have to cook. Even better.
I'm with you on that score. I don't have to cook either this year with the
exception of the Christmas Pudding and that has been done for at least a
month. Just have to make the Brandy butter and hunt out the recipe and
ingredients for the Arrowroot sauce and buy the cream.
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Posted by The Other Kim on December 21, 2007, 2:52 pm
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> Nope. We still sing Jingle Bells, I'm dreaming of a White Xmas, Good
> King Wenceslas (sp???), Silent Night etc. No change whatsoever.
> I was helping a friend to move house today. She is Canadian born and
> has only had one Xmas in Oz so far and we talked about her thoughts on
> a midsummer Xmas. She was complaining about the snaowy Christmas
> carols in the middle of summer and that the food wasn't right. When I
> asked her what she's eaten last Xmas, she had seafood and salads. I
> told her that wasn't Xmas at all - one had to cook the turkey and
> roast vegetables while it was 40degreesC in the kitchen and top that
> off with the hot Plum Pudding which was brought to the table flaming.
> And at 3.00pm one collapses into bed to sleep it all off complaining
> bitterly of having eaten too much rich food and how bloody hot it was.
Ah, sounds like Christmas is Christmas no matter where it's celebrated.
As a pagan, this time of year I'm celebrating Yule while my Aussie pagan
friends are celebrating Midsummer. If I ever had to relocated to the
southern hemisphere I'm not sure I could get my kids to break out of the
gift-giving part of Yule/Christmas in December, but they'd still have
Hanukkah in December, and with Yule in June they could almost literally
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have "Christmas in July" <g>
The Other Kim
kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom
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Posted by FarmI on December 22, 2007, 7:30 pm
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>> Nope. We still sing Jingle Bells, I'm dreaming of a White Xmas, Good
>> King Wenceslas (sp???), Silent Night etc. No change whatsoever.
>> I was helping a friend to move house today. She is Canadian born and has
>> only had one Xmas in Oz so far and we talked about her thoughts on a
>> midsummer Xmas. She was complaining about the snaowy Christmas carols in
>> the middle of summer and that the food wasn't right. When I asked her
>> what she's eaten last Xmas, she had seafood and salads. I told her that
>> wasn't Xmas at all - one had to cook the turkey and roast vegetables
>> while it was 40degreesC in the kitchen and top that off with the hot Plum
>> Pudding which was brought to the table flaming. And at 3.00pm one
>> collapses into bed to sleep it all off complaining bitterly of having
>> eaten too much rich food and how bloody hot it was.
> Ah, sounds like Christmas is Christmas no matter where it's celebrated.
Yep :-))
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> As a pagan, this time of year I'm celebrating Yule while my Aussie pagan
> friends are celebrating Midsummer. If I ever had to relocated to the
> southern hemisphere I'm not sure I could get my kids to break out of the
> gift-giving part of Yule/Christmas in December, but they'd still have
> Hanukkah in December, and with Yule in June they could almost literally
Well given that most 'Christian' festivals were merely imposed over older
pagan celebrations, I can't see any problem with doing that :-)). I'm not a
Christian either, but I do enjoy the family get togethers and the
celebrations and fun that lie behind the 'Christian' day.
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Posted by Katherine on December 21, 2007, 9:35 pm
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> > Watching something on TV yesterday, it was mentioned that the words to
> > Christmas carols we know in the northern hemisphere are changed to suit =
in
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> > Oz,
> > can someone in Australia or NZ elaborate???
> Nope. =A0We still sing Jingle Bells, I'm dreaming of a White Xmas, Good Ki=
ng
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> Wenceslas (sp???), Silent Night etc. =A0No change whatsoever.
> I was helping a friend to move house today. =A0She is Canadian born and ha=
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> only had one Xmas in Oz so far and we talked about her thoughts on a
> midsummer Xmas. =A0She was complaining about the snaowy Christmas carols i=
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> the middle of summer and that the food wasn't right. =A0When I asked her w=
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> she's eaten last Xmas, she had seafood and salads. =A0I told her that wasn=
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> Xmas at all - one had to cook the turkey and roast vegetables while it was=
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> 40degreesC in the kitchen and top that off with the hot Plum Pudding which=
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> was brought to the table flaming. =A0And at 3.00pm one collapses into bed =
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> how bloody hot it was.
That's my memory of Christmas down under, too. Of course, we used to
go
to Bondi while the cooking was happening. But we ate the whole thing -
including plum pudding!
Higs,
Katherine
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Posted by FarmI on December 22, 2007, 7:34 pm
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> > Watching something on TV yesterday, it was mentioned that the words to
> > Christmas carols we know in the northern hemisphere are changed to suit
> > in
> > Oz,
> > can someone in Australia or NZ elaborate???
> Nope. We still sing Jingle Bells, I'm dreaming of a White Xmas, Good King
> Wenceslas (sp???), Silent Night etc. No change whatsoever.
> I was helping a friend to move house today. She is Canadian born and has
> only had one Xmas in Oz so far and we talked about her thoughts on a
> midsummer Xmas. She was complaining about the snaowy Christmas carols in
> the middle of summer and that the food wasn't right. When I asked her what
> she's eaten last Xmas, she had seafood and salads. I told her that wasn't
> Xmas at all - one had to cook the turkey and roast vegetables while it was
> 40degreesC in the kitchen and top that off with the hot Plum Pudding which
> was brought to the table flaming. And at 3.00pm one collapses into bed to
> sleep it all off complaining bitterly of having eaten too much rich food
> and
> how bloody hot it was.
That's my memory of Christmas down under, too. Of course, we used to
go
to Bondi while the cooking was happening. But we ate the whole thing -
including plum pudding!
:-)) And we didn't even mention the flies! Not that you probably got too
many of them if you were withing coo-ee of Bondi. But I'm rural and there
are always those blasted flies.
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>> only had one Xmas in Oz so far and we talked about her thoughts on a
>> midsummer Xmas. She was complaining about the snaowy Christmas carols in
>> the middle of summer and that the food wasn't right. When I asked her
> what
>> she's eaten last Xmas, she had seafood and salads. I told her that
>> wasn't
>> Xmas at all - one had to cook the turkey and roast vegetables while it
>> was
>> 40degreesC in the kitchen and top that off with the hot Plum Pudding
>> which
>> was brought to the table flaming. And at 3.00pm one collapses into bed
>> to
>> sleep it all off complaining bitterly of having eaten too much rich food
> and
>> how bloody hot it was.
> I have a knitting friend in Australia, and she spoke of barbecuing the
> turkey
> outside along with veggies etc to help keep the kitchen "cooler".