Christmas Recipes

Roast Chook

1 free range chicken
salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 220 degrees one hour before cooking. Wash the chicken in cold running water. Pat dry with paper towel. Rub with plenty of salt and pepper and a bit of oil. If you have a lemon lying around, cut in half and stuff up the chicken's bottom. Place on a greased tray and pop into oven. Set timer for 45mins for a large bird. Take out of oven and pierce skin in the leg joint with a skewer. If juices run clear, it's done. If not, put in for another 15 minutes.

Bittergreen Salad

Mixed leaves (eg: watercress, beetroot leaves, witlof, mizuna) 
Extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice
salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper
Make a dressing with the lemon juice and olive oil by adding 2 tablespoons of oil to 1 teaspoon lemon juice to a jam jar. Put the lid on and shake like you've got a pair. Add salt and pepper to taste and pour on (a little at a time) to washed leaves. Toss with clean fingers and add rest of dressing.
Wine suggestion A crisp white like the '05 Jacobs Creek reisling.

Trifle

1 Jam filled sponge roll, sliced Sweet cooking sherry
300ml Custard
250ml thick cream
Bitter chocolate
Tinned mandarin slices
You'll need a big bowl for this one. Line the bowl with thin slices of sponge. Add enough sherry to soak into the sponge but no more. Add custard. Place in fridge and let set for at least two hours. Whip cream until soft peaks appear. Spoon onto custard. Lightly grate chocolate onto the cream and arrange mandarin pieces around the edge of the bowl.Wine suggestion A dessert wine like Cookoothama botrytis semillon or a cold glass of dry sherry like La Goya manzanilla.

The easy option...

If this looks too hard, pop down to the Fish Market on the 24th (we suggest 3am) and get yourself a bunch of unshucked oysters, some cooked prawns and a slab of beer (go Sol for something lighter or Coopers Pale Ale for the ultimate Aussie Christmas beer) or sit back with a bottle of rosé (we like the Firestick 2007).
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