Photoblog: Tassie Chrissy 2011

Christmas in Australia means summer BBQs by the beach, seafood dinners, cold beers, flip flops, floppy hats and the lingering smell of sun screen. We haven’t had a summer Christmas for a few years now and this is our first since returning to Oz. It feels strange. It feels kinda wrong – where’s the snow, warming mulled wine by the log fire, the hearty roast dinners and the lingering smell of wet wool?

The hubs and I did have a fabulous Christmas down south on the beautiful island of Tasmania. There may not be romantic walks in the snow this time while we waited for the Christmas hour to chime in – but the views of wine glass bay, the endless blue-est blue skies, baby wallabies, soft sand in between our toes, constant flow of delicious Tassie wine (and the freshest seafood) sure made up for it.

And beside shipping a carton of that delicious Tassie wine back to Victoria, we also brought back 5 kilos of this…

…the sweetest, plumpest, juiciest Tasmanian cherries. Oh my.

No prizes for guessing what the key ingredient is for my upcoming recipe posts! Stay tuned.