Warren's brother Barry and his partner Maureen came for lunch today. We last saw them two years ago, since then they have been backwards and forwards to NZ and have both had heart attacks and recovered.
Because of their health issues, I was concerned about what to serve for lunch. I figured the best and easiest thing to do was to make a platter of food and let them choose themselves.
I got the lettuce with the small cups and filled them with coleslaw, these are so easy to make and look good on a platter. There was roast pork, silver side and ham, fresh bread and chutneys. I made curried eggs and egg and lettuce sandwiches with steamed potatoes. Dessert was watermelon. I love serving the watermelon, this is from China, meals would end with watermelon slices or sugar cane.
As usual I over catered so dinner was left overs.
Barry and Maureen are living in a motorhome up on the Sunshine Coast for the next few weeks before they take off again to the wild blue yonder.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Crap Wrap
As I had the family here over the weekend, ten altogether for meals, it required bigger plates, so I reached further into the cupboard to draw out one of my platters. I always smile when I look at this, its certainly not anything that I would buy, the colours don't go with anything else that I have and it doesn't go in the dishwasher!
I do like it though and use it often when there is a crowd. A full loaf of bread made into sandwiches, a kilo of chicken wings etc will fit on it.
I heard about "Crap wrap" and thought it would be good for our Red Hat group as we like to keep the costs down as much as possible and so we adopted crap wrap for our birthday celebrations a couple of years ago.
Everyone takes a wrapped gift and exchanges it, the gift is not to be purchased, so it is something from home, an unwanted gift or something surplus.We had all gifts in one place and used a numbers system for people to elect their gift, they came to the front, picked one and unwrapped it so everyone could see what they had. Once everyone had their gift, we set a time limit of ten minutes to swap their gift with someone else's, the only rule was they couldn't swap back. So if A swapped theirs for B, B couldn't swap with A again but B could swap with C then C could swap with A etc etc. It was a lot of fun but in our group a couple almost came to blows over a small coin purse that two people wanted, hence the time limit.
I ended up with the above tray, which someone thought was ugly. It is true "One man's trash is another man's treasure"
I heard about "Crap wrap" and thought it would be good for our Red Hat group as we like to keep the costs down as much as possible and so we adopted crap wrap for our birthday celebrations a couple of years ago.
Everyone takes a wrapped gift and exchanges it, the gift is not to be purchased, so it is something from home, an unwanted gift or something surplus.We had all gifts in one place and used a numbers system for people to elect their gift, they came to the front, picked one and unwrapped it so everyone could see what they had. Once everyone had their gift, we set a time limit of ten minutes to swap their gift with someone else's, the only rule was they couldn't swap back. So if A swapped theirs for B, B couldn't swap with A again but B could swap with C then C could swap with A etc etc. It was a lot of fun but in our group a couple almost came to blows over a small coin purse that two people wanted, hence the time limit.
I ended up with the above tray, which someone thought was ugly. It is true "One man's trash is another man's treasure"
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