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Showing posts with label bring a plate tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bring a plate tradition. Show all posts

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Party food with a difference...

It's that time of year when the Aussie custom of 'bring a plate', reigns supreme. Through the years, stories abound of newly arrived immigrants taking the term literally and turning up at a function with just that...a plate...empty! 
Yes this time of year brings with its lots of 'get togethers' to celebrate the fact that Christmas is coming; be it workplace celebrations or groups or family and friends. And traditionally most people help by bringing some food...on a plate! Lol

On Saturday I went to one such get together and took Christmas cake and shortbread. But I'd decided to take something a little different to the gathering I was going to on Sunday morning. So on Saturday night I washed a selection of fruit...left them to dry and then put them in a container till Sunday morning...

Then Sunday morning I arranged all the fruit on plates...


The lovely blue glass cake stand that DD2 had given me for Mothers' Day this year certainly came in handy. 
Last night I realised that I had forgotten the rock melon...instead of being cut up and added to the other fruit, it languished in the crisper of the fridge! :-/