Boxing Day Goodies/Shopping List Week 10

1.       Whipped cream

2.       Crushed tomatoes

3.       Ricotta

4.       Mozzarella

5.       Lasagna noodles (yes, that’s where that was going!)

6.       Treacle (to make molasses cookies)

7.       Ginger

8.       Pavlova nests (they were so good at Thanksgiving, I thought I would get them again)

9.       Licorice

10.   Mini Christmas pudding (I really wanted to try it)

11.   Dates (because I decided the relish proportions were a bit off, and it needed more sweet, haha)

On Australia’s Boxing Day I had my American Christmas Day, and skyped home as well as making lasagna and molasses cookies, the bare minimum of what Christmas typically requires (technically they should have been gingerbread cookies, but I had no cookie cutters and molasses cookies are still awesome). Here’s the lasagna, which I had to make in the rice maker bowls, the only deep-dish item in the kitchen that could go in the oven (over the course of my stay in the flat I made cake, bread, frittata, and lasagna in a container designed to go inside a rice machine, but it didn’t seem to do it any harm).

I saved the pavlova/cream/pudding for New Years, although I also had leftovers from the Aussie Christmas to eat, which was delicious the second time around.