Christmas Lunch 2008

I spent Christmas this year with my husband. We went to my husband friend's house (Keith) down town for Christmas lunch with his family. Not many people came, only his mother-in-law, sister-in-law & her family. They have 1 son and 2 cats >1 of them still kitten<. That morning, as usual we had breakfast at home and around 10ish, I started to heat up my Chicken Kalio Rendang, it is chicken cooked in coconut milk, some spices and I added red kidney beans. It was quite a lot because I made it from 3 large skinless chicken breast and 750 grams of red kidney beans. You can find the recipe on the My hobbies page. We went to his house, his wife was still preparing the food, preparing the table and then her family came then not long after that we have our Christmas lunch. Besides my Chicken Kalio Rendang, she cooked Turkey with cranberry sauce, Pork with apple sauce, Roasted Chicken, Bean salad, Veggies >cauli flower & brocolli<, Roasted Potato and Roasted Sweet Potato. As for the drinks, they were Champagne (but me and my husband we don't drink and I am 6.5 months pregnant, so no alcohol drinks for us) and his wife kindly made Fruit Punch, I guess she made it specially for us (^_^) The fruit punch was really nice and refreshing, I think it has sprite/7-up, pineapple in natural juice and fresh passion fruit. During lunch, they play Christmas song and each of us got 1 gift, you have to pop-it-up, it makes noise :-) I got 2 chocolate and 1 candy. My husband got the same, only he got caramel chocolate. We ate them after lunch. Since we all pretty full after yummy Christmas lunch, some still sitting outside, talking and we sit inside, sometimes I play with Roxie >the kitten<>Vicky< served us with Christmas pudding (Christmas cake, custard, ice cream)...yummy...

After that, again we sit at the TV room and it was around 5pm when me and my husband started to feel sleepy :-)

Since Keith's nice and nephew are about to go home, we also go home.

It was nice! Nice people, Keith and Vicky are very friendly, Lucky (their only son) is also nice. Their relatives and Vicky's mother are nice too.

As Chinese Indonesian and as a Buddhist, at home, we never celebrate christmas. We do buy Christmas Cake every year because my Mum likes it, and we enjoy it too hehehe... But it was never a "big" event for us. We celebrate Chinese New Year and for 2009 Chinese New Year will be on 26th January 2009.


Posted on Sunday, 28th December 2009 @ 3:46pm