There’s something about Christmas lunches and dinners that inspires everyone to over cater for whatever group of people they have coming around. Personally, I tend to cater for a full serve of everything for half the people that are coming. For the most part, this works well because everyone tends to have just a little bit of everything and in my family, there is always the one or two people who are allergic or intolerant to at least something we commonly eat at Christmas. The trouble with being the host is that you are the one who ends up with all the leftovers stuck in your fridge. We have a bad track record of using leftovers in our house. Generally, they sit there happily festering away until such times as they are capable of growing legs and walking out to the bin.

No one seemed to agree with my method of catering this year because I ended up with surprise leg of ham, trifle and nibblies because nobody thought they were bringing enough with just what I had asked for. Consequently, I’ve got enough unopened dip and crackers to feed around 30 people, along with the lollies, savoury biscuits, nuts, rum balls and chocolates that appeared out of nowhere. Not to mention at least half of the six different desserts that made an appearance as well as the potato bake, beef, turkey, ham, prawns and salad. Aside from letting it fester in the fridge, the only choice we had was to palm off a lot of it to unsuspecting friends and family.

So I have come up with a new Christmas carol, which a lot of people will identify with in the aftermath of Christmas. Think of it as the 12 Days of Christmas, in reverse.

On the first day after Christmas, I had leftover in my fridge:
Two kilograms of prawns,
Heaps of roast beef,
A fair chunk of turkey,
Tonnes of different salads,
A partly eaten trifle,
Half of a plum pudding,
Three quarters of a cheesecake,
A bourbon slow-cooked ham!
Multitudes of dips,
A little potato bake,
Half a Christmas cake,
And the remnants of a large fruit platter!

Repeat ad nauseum with changing amounts until it’s all gone one way or another!

December 27th, 2008 | Category: Special occasions |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL