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Christmas with my kids, parents and one of my brothers

For the last few years I’ve visited my girls the week before Christmas to spend the weekend and have our own special Christmas. It also coincides with my Mum’s birthday so it’s a joint celebration.

This year my youngest brother, Mr40 decided to make wonton soup for an entrée. Mr40 prides himself on this wonton soup however, we discovered he doesn’t follow Mum’s recipe to the letter. He doesn’t slap the pork mince. For more information check out My Mum’s wonton recipe and read what I’m talking about.

Mr40's wonton soup for our Christmas lunch entrée

It was pretty good.

If you thought I limited myself to this one small bowl you'd be mistaken.

Lunch was pretty good. In the morning I went out and bought prawns (tigers and kings) and then peeled them. Mum roasted chickens, made a potato bake, coleslaw, devilled eggs and a fantastic stuffing.

Christmas lunch

For dessert Mum made a sunken orange cake with a lovely orange sauce and ice cream.

Orange cake

You would think we couldn’t eat dinner. Well you’d be wrong.

A light dinner of cheese and fruit

This was then followed with rocky road made by Mr40′s wife.

Rocky road

After digesting dinner we slept and then woke this morning to Mum breakfast of French toast, bacon and scrambled eggs.

Breakast after a big feast. French toast, bacon and scrambled eggs.

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I love steak

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I often feel like eating steak. For the last few months my staple protein has been skinless chicken thigh. That said I have been allowing myself red meat every now and then.

A few weeks ago I had an Angus rib eye fillet at Kingsleys steak and crab house. The steak was amazingly tender. That’s an onion ring on top

Angus rib eye fillet with creamy potato mash and bearnaise sauce

Last weekend I had a Scotch rib fillet with prawns and calamari at the Canberra Southern Cross Club at Jamison. It was pretty awesome.

Scotch rib fillet with prawns, calamari and mashed potato (rustic style) with a bearnaise sauce

Tonight I wanted to cook myself some steak. This is a Scotch rib fillet from Coles. It’s sitting on a sweet potato stack. It’s topped with cheese and avocado and a side of roast pumpkin.

Steak, sweet potato, pumpkin, avocado and cheese

This was a very satisfying meal. The creaminess of the avocado and the juiciness of the steak went so well together.

Lunch at Amici Sheraton

Dinner at the museum

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Tonight I visited Museo Nacional De Antropología in Mexico City and went through the Aztec and Maya rooms. Fascinating exhibits and very interesting history.

Dinner was tortilla soup, stuffed chicken and banana cream pie.

Tortilla soup at Museo Nacional De Antropología

Stuffed chicken at Museo Nacional De Antropología

Banana cream pie at Museo Nacional De Antropología

Chicken enchiladas with mole sauce

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It’s been a huge day. The meetings have been pretty full on, so much so, I haven’t felt that tired, except at about 0400 AEDT. I met an official from US DoS and she said the room service menu was good and she recommended the enchiladas. I’m never one to avoid room service, so I gave it a go. I recall mole sauce from an experience in a Mexican restaurant on Arlie Beach so I had chicken enchiladas with mole sauce and refried beans. It was delicious.