My favourite for a hot Xmas is Pork in aspic or Brawn, (you can get it from a good Deli) no neeed to cook it yourself. ( if you want to cook it, there are some great recipes on the internet.) Some sliced ham and perhaps some cold, roast chicken.
A nice continental potato salad and a tossed salad that I keep in the fridge without the dressing until the food is served.
For my tossed salad I walk along the Vegetable isles and grab whatever I see suitable to use. Mixed green leaves, Tomatoes, Cucumber, Carrot for grating, Cellery, Capsicums, Mushrooms and red and Spring onions.
Hard boiled eggs with or without the yolk mashed and garnished, to add on top of the salad.
As nibbles I like to make tiny sandwiches. Any filling, the sandwich quartered and each quarter halved again. Cellery sticks cut into 4cm length, filled with cream cheese that has black pepper and chopped chives added. The same filling can go into stoneless dried prunes. Some Kabana pieces and cheese cubes will fill a platter.
The only thing I have to cook are the eggs and the potatoes for the salad. All done the day before, keept cool and fresh in the fridge until time to entertain.
Well, that is my escape from cooking on a hot, but festive day.
Hope you all have a very enjoyable Xmas.
Erica
