Usually during festive days, we will gather together and have dinner. And Christmas was no different. Not any lavish kind of dinners, nor big gatherings with all the aunties and uncles and relatives. Just the parents and siblings. Simple, small but warm gatherings.

This Christmas Eve, we had homemade salad. Prepacked salad you can conveniently get from the supermarket, along with some canned peaches and fruit cocktail thrown in.



Coupled with some eggs, corns, sausages, and cherry tomatoes.



We also had the usual hams, but I didn't take any shots of it.

Not forgetting the all-important whipped potato from KFC, which is a must for me whenever we have homemade salad. The others have thousand island and such for dressings, I must have the whipped potato with its gravy as my dressing :)

This is how I like my salad.

For Christmas lunch, it was at The Curve's Italiannies. The place was rather dim with warm, incandescent lights, therefore my pics are a somewhat under-exposed and the white balance is kinda bad cause I was lazy to do custom WB and partly because I prefer my pictures to show of the actual ambience.

The interior.

I didn't quite get the names of the stuffs we had cause by the time I reached the place after rounds and rounds of trying to find for a parking space, my family has already placed the orders. I got these names from my sister who so adores going to that place for food!

Spinach & artichoke formaggio. The crusts taste really good, and somehow I believe the formaggio dip would be too had I not tried it only after it turned cold and rancid.



Calamari caesar salad. My hubby just couldn't resist those calamari :)



The pastas we order. From left-to-right: the Classic Carbonara; Clam Linguine (didn't get the sauce name though); and Marinara Shrimp Linguine.




And finally for Christmas dinner, it was the usual simple Chinese dinner of rice and dishes that we have every night. But all my favourite dishes :)

From left-to-right: stewed chicken with potato and carrot; broccoli and cauliflower with mushrooms and beancurd skin; and fuzzy melon with glass noodles (jie gua chao fan-si)



mmmmmm ... a yummy-licious Christmas!!!

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