I know Australia Day is coming up soon and the first thing I think about for Australia Day is what we might put on the bbq. Good quality sausages are usually a given but sometimes you also want something a little bit upmarket too. Brookvale Meats is a meat supplier that delivers great quality meat, smallgoods and ready made goodies straight to your door. You can order online or on the phone and you could be feasting on something delicious the next day. Their product range doesn’t only include what you might find at your regular butcher but also some unusual, mouthwatering items like Salchichon Spain’s best salami, jamón ibérico de bellota or ready made Wagyu involtini with horseradish & sun dried tomato. There is also a delicious range of Nonna’s sausages including flavours like duck, orange & pistachio or pork provolone & pine nut among many others.
Thanks to the people at www.brookvalemeats.com.au you can win a $150 gift voucher to spend on anything that your heart desires at Brookvale Meats! For a chance to win all you have to do is tell me what you’re going to do on Australia Day! Simply add your answer as a comment to the story. The competition ends at midnight AEST on the 19th of February, 2012. You can enter this competition once daily and is open to people in Sydney or those that can pick up the goods from the Brookvale store at 45 Mitchell Road, Brookvale during the store’s opening hours. If you are in the Sydney Metropolitan area, this package can also be delivered to your door.
Best of luck!
Lots of love,
Lorraine
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Even though I can’t win, I shall comment. That cured or dried meat look wonderful and I really love the presentation. Lucky people in Sydney, good luck to you all!
Wow I’ve never thought about winning meat but it’ll be great for australia day hehe but too bad I’m overseas so I’d prob miss out on this competition
I will be studying….and I will try to squeeze in some cake/biscuit/slice baking. I think I would rather go to work regarding the studying part.
Whoever wins this will be very very happy:)
For Australia day,I’ll be going to my friends house for a lazy long lunch with some great friends, food and lots of wine!
We are having about 10 friends (incl us!) over for prawns, a stuffed butterflies leg of lamb and mini pavs!
My husband, my daughter and I all have Aussie day outfits sorted! We have lots of Aussie decorations!
And we will have the Triple J hottest 100 playing nice and loud!
How lovely if we could get the meat for ‘free’ thanks to you and Brookvale meats!
Lucky enough that one of my ‘outlaws’ has a lawn right on the harbour in Kirribilli so we are going to squeeze in with BBQ sausages and lamb chops, ending the meal with Pavlova.
We’re off to the beach, weather permitting, then having all my three children around the table for a family BBQ – that is a feat in itself. And on Australia Day we always cook lamb.
I think I’m going to go to El Loco. Australian-inspired Mexican and margaritas seems like a really fun way to celebrate Australia Day to this Kiwi
I will be relaxing with my friends and enjoying a bbq then eating pavlova and lammingtons. Yum : )
On Australia Day I am heading down to the harbour to watch the Ferry Race and get in the spirit and then because Sam Kekovich’s says it makes sense I’ll be putting some lamb on the Barbie at a friends place!
A BBQ with friends down at the river near where we live! The menu – the best steaks I can get simply BBQ’ed medium rare with BBQ onions, sausages for the kids and some fresh home made salads. Dessert will be my famous Aussie Mess (broken up pav, cream, mango, passionfruit and toasted almonds)- yummo!!! The most important ingredient – friends and family to share it with.
A
Yum! We are hosting a barbecue at our place. Sausages are sure to feature
Swimming on the beach in Byron Bay if weather behaves itself and enjoying the festivities put on in the Byron area
I’m going to hang a Australian flag from my balcony to show I am a true Australian and then get all my friends over for a true blue BBQ with a home made pav and lamingtons. Did I mention the Vegemite for breakfast?
What will I do on Australia day? Kiss and Australian? Fly to Australia? Adopt a Koala? all the above!
Nettie
on australia day and on every australia day since I arrived on the (original )Oriana on January 26 1961 I have a bbq with all of my family all born in oz to celebrate our national culture the day starts with vegemite toast always includes a bbq and a pavlova fine aussie wine and dont forget the lamingtons !!
THIS AUSTRALIA DAY MY PARTNER AND I WILL START WITH A CLASSIC AUSSIE BREKKIE, FOLLOWED BY A STROLL THROUGH HYDE PARK TO ADMIRE THE CLASSIC CARS, THEN WIND OUR WAY DOWN TO CIRCULAR QUAY, HOP ON A FERRY TO MANLY FOR SOME AUSSIE SUN AND SURF, TOP UP ON A ALFRESCO PUB MEAL WITH A COLDIE, AND THEN RETURN TO THE HARBOUR IN THE EVENING FOR THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY AND CELEBRATIONS WITH A GELATO AT DARLING HARBOUR.
What a glorious picture to wake up to, that Iberico Jamon propped up proudly on it’s stand. I can almost taste and smell it, mmmmmmmmmmmm, Yummo!
Well we’re not really a ‘picnic’ type family but I’ve planned for an Australia Day picnic this year, a spot somewhere in the many beautiful locations in Sydney.
Now all I have to do is plan the picnic menu,pack hats, sunblock,bubbly ( of course) and lots of Australian patriotic spirit.
Ohh…What a great prize, Well on Australia Day I am going Sky Diving with my best mate from Melbourne for his 30th Birthday!! Will be following that up with a BBQ of Course…now where to get the meat????
I will be having a BBQ with a few friends, listening to triple j. It’s a tradition we have kept for the last few years!!
I will be attempting not to replicate last Australia day, where an errant blast from the barbeque took my eyebrows, the front of my hair & the hair on my arms.
I love that photo, just gorgeous! I never thought I would stare at meat so long but it is just a fantastic photo.
… wouldn’t mind a slice of that myself
Australia day means a bbq, good wine and plenty of friends to enjoy it with and that is exactly how I will be spending it- whilst we all winge about having to go to work the next day LOL!
Sausage sangas, a game of backyard cricket in our cozzies, a few coldies and a surf. Cheers mate
When, oh when are the ever widening borders of the Sydney Metropolitan area going to reach me
! ‘Tis a matter of kilometers now !! It would be much easier to read of this fabulous opportunity living in the US or Europe. Boo!! As for Australia Day: let us hope for fine weather! My cottage backs onto parklands and I have a large seating area under the trees. So some good food, ditto wine, lively conversation and music in the background. Lazy, hazy, relaxed and content for the day! Powers up above: you are listening, aren’t you 
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Wow, what a fantastic prize. I love a good deli selection and sadly they are few and far between. Brookvale is only 1.5 hrs away so will make the trip and stock up the frig.
Every Australia Day our street has a party. It’s a cul de sac with a fair gradient and this year the children are having a billy cart derby. I can see tears but there will be lots of adults to dish out bandaids & cuddles. We’ll all set out our picnics & BBQ’s (with the view to sharing) on the nature strips & driveways and just wander up and down catching up with everyone. It’s also a great way for “newbies” to meet everyone else. We are a multi cultural lot and ages vary from 89 to 2. We are looking forward to a fabulous day.
I am going to dress up in a Lady Gaga meat dress made of crappy Warringah mall Coles butchery meat and wear it to Brooky to use the voucher I’m going to win
“Mate can I have 1kg of this loincloth and 600g of the cut that is my shoulder strap?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_dress_of_Lady_Gaga
Beach BBQ with friends listening to triple J’s hottest 100 in the radio.
My dearest Pomme friend is arriving from England and I have not seen her for 20 years. Picking her up from the airport and what better way to catch up with her and remeet my family than an Aussie BBQ with Brookdale goodies and all the Aussie trimmings, cold beer or champagne and a sunshine view of the bridge.
My family will take some time to acknowledge and celebrate the traditional custodians of this land we are privileged to share. We will give thanks for the continued commitment of the Aboriginal people to work with us and forge a way forward despite our many and varied wrongs.
I will be at the park under a large tree sharing a red with friends and grazing on the finest antipasto.
My Melbourne family is coming to town to see how Sydney celebrate Australia Day. Lamb on the bbq, only Aussie tunes playing all day and enjoying all that Sydney has to offer! (Please god don’t let it rain!!!)
Going to have a barbeque of course!
Change of plans. A friend of ours has been trekking to the South Pole to raise money for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. He is due to return the day before Australia Day. We have just been invited to a celebratory BBQ to toast the successful expedition, the money raised and of course, Australia Day.
@ Pamity – have read all the posts and hope plans will succeed overall. However, the picture of the planned streetparty you describe sure attracted my attention: that, to me, is REAL Australia Day! Have a wonderful time
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Well, would you believe I am to get my Australian Citizenship ON ‘Australia Day’. I am so very excited and proud. I am an American who married an Australian two years and feel honored as I am to become an ‘official Aussie’ – actually on ‘Australia Day’ this year.
Australia day calls for a backyard BBQ lunch with friends over from Perth & Sydney gang – lets hope for sunshine. brook ale meats would be the perfect accompaniment to our lunch thx Lorraine
Hoping for good weather to take the children to the local celebrations that the council are running.
Well, thanks to your photo, I will indulge in portions of Jamon Iberico washed down with the driest Fino (Manzanilla di Sanlucar). Then I will thank Australa for having such a strong economy that I can afford to travel to Spain for the real thing. Happy Australia Day!
I’ll be heading to Terrigal with a group of friends to share a beach house, some lazy time and of course, a BBQ.
8 high shook friends n I are having 10th reunion at Jambaroo!!! Reliving the young n innocent days =)
do a little gardening followed by a bbq with kangaroo fillets
This year for Australia Day I am overseas with the RAAF. I will be celebrating by a game of cricket in the sand and hopefully some sort of BBQ (all be it a DIFFERENT style of BBQ).
I first thought in the wrong state can enter, then I thought yes you can, imagine what an awesome prize this would be to pay forward to a Sydney charity. So going to do some research, know who I’d like to give it to, don’t know the name. They have vans and collect extra food from restaurants and feed people having a hard time. As to what I’m doing for Australia day will have to think about that as well, think my husband is working.
I have to work on Australia Day
But I’m hoping my lovely boyfriend will save me a plate from his BBQ! I love Brookvale Meats, fingers crossed!
I need to buy a time-share in Australia just to qualify for your scrumptious contests. Iberico ham would be worth THAT.
The Wanda Extreme! Sand, flies and tonnes of sunscreen! Finished with a BBQ in the park! Relax all day till well into the dark!
Sadly, I am having my wisdom teeth removed the day before Oz day… So I will be forced to create some sort of ground banger and beer concoction.
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In one word that says it al YUMMY
With two small children, we’ll enjoy Australia Day at home. We’ll set up the water slide on the lawn and invite the grandparents over for a BBQ lunch. The kids love sausages, so there’ll be plenty of those, and a nice big salad followed by homemade Lamingtons in honor of Australia Day!
Its my mums bday on aus day so we’re having a good old fashioned Chinese family dinner =p
Like many others we will have a family picnic on Australia Day, as per usual there will be too much food and eating
We always have a great time and we reflect on how lucky we are to be living in Australia. I think a few family members would be fighting over the jamón!
Too bad I don’t live in Sydney!
The meat looks lovely!
I just moved out of home and am having my family over for an Australia Day BBQ. Due to the inspiring words of Sam Kekovich, I am making slow roasted lamb shoulder for my first independent Australia Day. Then heading we are taking our Australian flag bucket hats down to Dawes Point to watch the festivities.
We’ll be spending Australia Day as we always do, delish BBQ feast with good company….hoping for some sunshine! Happy Australia Day!
My friends and I have a tradition of going to yum cha every Australia day.
I’m thinking of going out to our gorgeous harbour, and watching the annual ferrython! Afterwards, I’d probably grab a free cheesymite scroll from Baker’s Delight and just wander around and explore what other events Sydney is hosting!
This year, like most other years, my family will be having a BBQ. It usually ends up being half Aussie style BBQ (steak, potato salad etc.) and half asian style (Vietnamese sausages, fish wrapped in banana leaves, satay chicken skewers etc.) Its nice having a bit of both
A delicious beach-side lunch with friends and family is a must for Australia Day. There have to be prawns of course because nothing says Australia Day to me like being elbow deep in the mess I’ve made enjoying the tasty little things! Some amazing marinated kangaroo steaks complete the Aussie theme, and mini key lime pies for dessert – they may not be true blue but they’re just so refreshing and suit the weather perfectly!
With a 2 month old and still getting used to parenthood, we will be having a quiet one this year. Catching up on much needed Zzzzzs and playing with the baby.
We are hosting our 2nd Australian Open tennis party. You must come dressed as a former tennis player. We mingled with Ai Sugiyama, Michael Chang, John “you can’t be serious” McEnroe and others. Good company and good food!
Dave and I have been invited to watch the Australian Open in one of the Superboxes! So we are making a three night trip to Melbourne out of it *yay*
Hoping for a fine day so we can enjoy the Annual BBQ and Cricket Match organised by my daughter in memory of three of the guys she grew up with who have died in early adulthood… it is always a great day for their families and friends to remember them, and to celebrate Australia Day.
Picnic on the lake with the boy I love, feeding bread to the birds and chops with handles to each other. Then we’ll grab our bikes and ride around the lake, being so thankful to have been born in a country where we can exercise our freedom of expression.
We celebrate my daughter’s birthday and our coming to Australia as immigrants 6 years ago. We make a Southwestern Pumpkin Soup, Antipasti plate, tamales, Fijian Fish cooked in coconut milk, and of course…pavlova, southern coconut custard cake. Did I forget to mention the mojitos and corona’s? Lol, all in all, our day is spent with loved ones and lotsa food and fun.
I’m going to be running around in circles – literally – for 3 hours. I’m doing a 3hr trail run consisting of as many 5km loops as I can manage. Last year I managed 2 laps before tripping and landing on my knee, leading to a stay in hospital and a nice relaxing surgical correction under general! I’m hoping for a less exciting race this year.
Even tho’ I can’t win (being in Newcastle) we will spend Australia Day at the beach and having fish and chips afterwards. If the sharks all go away by then that is!
I’ll be celebrating my fiance becoming an Australian citizen with a BBQ to follow at the beach!
What an appropriate giveaway for Australia day!
Australia Day for us will be a long lazy BBQ with great friends. A sausage in one hand and a VB in the other
We will be by the pool, christening our new BBQ, after our old one caught fire in the great grease fire of 2009 and melted. We will also be celebrating surviving seven weeks with our new baby girl and introducing her to some friends and new tunes with the triple J hottest 100.
We will be hosting our annual Hottest 100 Triple J Countdown Australia Day Party. Finger food for the day to finish with home made burgers with all the trimmings
I will be spending it with friends bbq-ing it up during the day followed by a sunset / night picnic at the place where hopefully there are phosphorescence plankton in the water!
bbq those lamb chop baby!
spending it on a plane, flying to taiwan
Ooh! A Meat Tray giveaway! I’m planning on meeting up with people I’ve never met before at Town Hall and then cycling over to Manly – at a leisurely pace I hope!
On Australia Day I will be working
and dreaming of the BBqs others are having.
I plan to hit the beach – rain, hail or shine!
Oh my gosh…that Iberico Ham looks sensational!……….!
What a great idea to serve something which truly represents adopting our ‘new Aussies’ from all over……. together with a recognition of their great culinary assets. The cross-culture fare available from Brookvale meats is fantastic one stop shopping:)
Australia is such a unique melting pot (no pun hehe!) and because I love to
cook ……….we will be enjoying the day with family, friends,& fine fare!
p.s. and a drop or two
I’ll be enjoying our traditional family picnic and get together at Toowoon Bay Beach Reserve.The reserve overlooks the beach and there are free to use bbq’s ,picnic tables and plenty of shade. Before lunch we usually enjoy a swim and after lunch a walk along the beach. Toowoon Bay is a safe beach for families with children and only an hours drive from Sydney!
I will be down at Bulli Beach with my side of the extended family. It’s our yearly tradition. My uncle brings his mini-webber and we have an all day meat-fest, eating morsels of sausage, chicken wing, steak etc just as they come off the barbie. I think I’d be the hero if I turned up with $150 worth of Nonna’s sausages in my esky.
Cheers for going with Brookvale Meats…I think they source most of their meat from free-range farmers and encourage people to buy secondary cuts.
I am very lucky and have a friend who lives on Sydney Harbour. So I will be wheeling my BBQ down to her place and indulging in lamb koftas and pork sausages with a side of olives, cheese, dips, crackers, salads, beer, wine…oh god I need a rest!
I will be starting with an Australia Day lunch with some gorgeous light salads and pavlova (of course), then an evening picnic while watching Shakespeare in the park which will be finished off with Vegemite caramel macaroons…
I will be spending Australia Day with friends having a BBQ and also playing “Thong Cricket”, which is basically a pool game by brother in law made up using a thong as a cricket bat!
Just the two of us this year and husband probably working, so to make it really easy might even pull out a lasagne cooked and frozen a couple of weeks ago.
Cooking a leg of pork on the BBQ griddle, crispy and crunchy on the outside, pink in the middle.
Hubby, Puppy and I are heading down to Pyrmont with some friends for a picnic by the water! Hoping to still be there later in the afternoon to enjoy the Jazz and a bottle of wine!!
Lamb on the BBQ, Pavlova Roll With Fresh Berry and Basil Sauce, friends, family and Australia Day decorations and hats!
me bestie, Jude, is right at this moment (Sunday arvo) frantically cleaning her WHOLE house so it passes inspection when we, her closest friends and our partners invade. We all know this tidiness will last until January 26th but we applaud her attempt anyway and will be sure to tell her what a wonderful job she has done. Then we will enjoy each others company over some snags and chops and some salad and punch and sit outside!! Priceless!!
I will be spending the day with family and friends playing cricket on the beach, swimming & enjoying a tasty aussie bbq.
Working!
BBQ round home with family and friends – try out something spectacular and risk disaster!
We will be walking from West Head to Mackeral beach with a bunch of good friends. We will picnic and swim, might even have a thong throwing competition and then walk back!!
Heading into the midst of the action to watch the tall ships on the Sydney Harbour
That Spanish ham looks so gourmet! It brings back memories of our long holiday in Spain visiting relatives.
This year, we are celebrating at home with friends who have a new baby boy.
We’ll be cooking everything on the BBQ apart from the dessert. As we are a family of meat eaters, we will BBQ various cuts of beef, chicken thighs and pork sausages.
For dessert I’m making Pavlova. Thanks to Donna Hay’s Simple Essentials – Fruit cookbook I can now make the meringue base. Then I top up with my own delicious vanilla flavoured cream and fresh fruit salad.
I love to have three fs for Australia day… Family, friends and … food =P
I’m heading of to the cricket as I am an obliging girlfriend. Followed by a picnic in the park and probably a nice bit of steak for dinner with some cider.
I would spend it with the people I love – and love to laugh with… [SMILE]
Its my future mother-in law’s birthday, so we shall be having a double celebration!
Aussie day is going to be spent in the backyard with mates and the BBQ
No better way to spend it.
I’m going to be the token Aussie on Australia Day having a BBQ and playing cricket with my English and Irish mates. I’m bringing the Kangaroo and Emu sausages, what better day to eat your national animals
it will be spent in our own backyard …barbie will be firing at the capable hands of the resident tong master … hahahaha…. and enjoying great food and drink and of course the company of family and friends in what i hope will be a glorious aussie summer day
I think I’m going to try my hand at at the delicious red pork belly recipe you recently posted. We’ll have a family feast followed by an afternoon nap before wandering down to Manly Beach for an afternoon dip. Only heard about Brookvale Meats last week and it’s on my list of local places to try. Sounds fabulous, might just head down there to pick up the pork belly.
Mine is going to be fun filled Cricket and BBQ Day with friends.
I’m going to be volunteering with the Red Cross Migration Support Program and will be enjoying a BBQ and cricket games with some refugees and asylum seekers in Canberra to help them to feel welcome and included in celebrating this great country!
I love Australia. We will be relaxing at the Sydney Botanical Gardens with some OZ favourites, including prawns, lamintons and of course some roast lamb sandwiches.
That presentation is just amazing! Thats what I would splurge on!
Some pavlova on Australia Day sounds delicious. Really pavlova on any day sounds delicious.
I will be celebrating by a game of cricket in the sand and hopefully some sort of BBQ (all be it a DIFFERENT style of BBQ). The joys of being overseas with work…
I absolutely adore spanish Jamon! Loved eating at Museo del Jamon in Madrid last year.. so so good
Aussie day festivities will be held at my parents this year for a delish family BBQ with mum’s famous spicy turkish lamb shish kebabs, steaks, gourmet suasages & hot and cold mezzes.
Looking forward to plenty of laughs and sipping on freshly brewed black tea for a round of bingo with the gang!
I can’t thank my parents enough for their strength and courage to say goodbye to Turkey and start a new life here! I feel so blessed to live in this beautiful country!
On Australia Day me and hubby will definitly be sleeping in. then enjoy a relaxed bbq at the beach with friends(weather permitting) otherwise we will have the bbq at home.
Head to Philip Island and sit on the beach reading a book on my Kindle
There is something truely australian about an Italian family playing a british game on australia day!
This Australia Day will be spent playing our annual CRAP Cup… The family cricket match that has been running on Australia day since 1986! Always held in centennial park, with about 60 players or more, cheating is encouraged (as long as you don’t get caught), the coverted perpetual trophy stands pride of place and on the day- no matter which side wins… Food is the victor!
Each year becomes harder and harder to outdo the previous as the Italian aunts, nonnas, sons and daughters start food planning and preparation months ahead! With the day more about who brought the best salad or chicken schnitzel and cakes overflowing on the tables- I can’t wait for what’s in store this year!
Hopefully I will be eating Pav and relaxing the day away – more likely I will be working…
Backyard cricket and a BBQ with friends
Love a traditional roast lamb meal, with all the baked vegies, mint sauce, and proper gravy, yum.
Count my blessings for being lucky enough to call myself an Aussie. Having travelled far and wide I always come back and say ahhh, it is soooooo good to be home!
Will be celebrating my gorgeous family!! Starting with Vegemite on Toast at Breakfast!! Will be having a BBQ with lamb and sausages on the BBQ and indulging in some Lamingtons and Pavlova!!! Hopefully the sun is out…
My friends recently drove/sailed from Tasmania to Norway using only biofuel… they’re having a party to celebrate on Australia Day, after which we will recycle any used cooking oil into fuel to run their truck! The most eco-friendly bbq ever… for the Australia of the future!
I will be fleeing Manly for Aus Day and heading home to Qld to enjoy a long weekend with my family.
I’ll be cooking up a lamb roast with dips before and grissini sticks rolled with proscuitto on one end and finish with a traditional pavlova. Friends to come as a prominent living Australian. We shall vote on the best and hopefully get an impromptu Australlian Day speech from the winner.
On Australia Day, our street always smells of bbq and we can never resist having one of our own. This year we’re starting the celebrations a little early with our brekkie bbq buffet!
Instead of two up we’re taking the kids to their bingo at our local Leagues and joining in their Aussie celebrations before ending the day with our traditional lamb baa bie!!
I’m lucky enough to live right by the beach. The apartment building is having a block party – BBQ, sun, beach… what could be more Aussie than that?
After reading your latest blog, I think I will be making beer bread! Yum!
Our friends are establishing a tradition on this day by having a group of us over for lunch. We all bring our specialties..I am known as the dessert Queen..So I always bring the sweets. It’s fun to start up a tradition between friends and not just only with the family that happens at other times of the year.
The beer bread looks awesome! I think I’ll be making that for the BBQ.
Yum! I’ve read about Nonna’s sausages and they are high up on my wish list of foods to try.
Since I just got a beautiful new Labrador puppy, Australia Day will be at my house and everyone will come over to meet my beautiful new girl!
Australia Day for me this year will involve a trip to the butchers the day before (today… eeeeeep!) for some lamb chops. Ever since rediscovering my local butcher a few months ago, I have not looked back! Taste remembered long after the price is forgotten
Husband working so maybe a nice easy sausage and onion sizzle. I’m not able to cook anymore, so I come up with the ideas, but husband has to do the all the work.
We will be having a BBQ with our friends who have a new baby boy.
Thanks to you Lorraine, I’ll also be making your No Knead Cheese & Onion Beer Bread. I’m also making Pavlova from Donna Hay’s recipe book.
Husband has been at work since 5.30 am. Still don’t know what we are eating. What happens when the comp. has days left to go, but Australia day is over?
have a garden barbie… there’s nothing more Australian than that!
Crack a few tinnies open and watch the cricket… Howzat? a pretty good day if you ask me!
I spent the day playing “hanger” cricket – surprisingly like backyard cricket but in an aircraft hanger…
We had fish fingers, with home made wedges,how boring was that? I swear even the so called “best” fish fingers are getting less and less fish, and more and more crumbs.
I will Be heading down to Dee Why Beach for an Australia Day Breaky – then rain hail or shine we’re off to bilgola beach for a swim/surf then home for a big BBQ by the pool (May throw in a game of water volley ball or cricket too!)
I had a relaxing day at home with a delicious bacon and egg brunch cooked by my husband – AND “surf and turf” for dinner – then booked a trip to Uluru for our 25th wedding anniversary next month! Can’t get more AUSSIE than that!
Spent the day resting on the bed, ignoring all the hype, watched X File DVD’s.
I managed to grab a pie with chips – yummy!!
Had a lazy lie in, followed by a swim in the rain, then a delicious pork based brunch at home. Then went onto the local bowls club for beers and bar snacks. Felt as dinky di as an English girl can.
We were meant to drive to Sydney, to have a BBQ with friends down there. They had all the meat for the BBQ ready but of course the rain came and we decided it was too wet to travel down the freeway,yet again!This is the 3rd time, we have been trying to get to visit them for a BBQ! It rains every time!! Maybe one day!
Are we still allowed to enter?/ If so what are we meant to be talking about.Tonight we are going to try a mushroom pasta dish I discovered on Delicieux, looks so easy.
I caught up on sleep on Australia Day. Sleeping only 3 hrs a night, it was a luxury much needed. Sleeping at the beach would’ve been preferable but this Sydney Summer didn’t allow it.
I spent the day playing “hanger” cricket – surprisingly like backyard cricket but in an aircraft hanger. And eating a meat pie – yummo!
I will be a party, eating smoked meat and salads in an awesome balcony apartment watching the fireworks over Perth city, with friends of course
For Australia Day, as a French Born Chinese who migrated in Australia, we tried our best to cook Aussie dishes. Pavlova was on the menu (with a hint of earl grey in the meringue base) topped with passion fruit, strawberries and blueberries. We wanted to bake lamb meat pie but ended up having our lamb the barbecue way! We were lucky enough to find a double picnic mat (1.7m x 1.7m!) with… an Aussie flag on! Aside from my froggie accent, our disguise was perfect as we drank a good Aussie cab sav!
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For Australia day, I met up with my new friends from work and we went to have a nice yumcha lunch, then we went to bowling afterwards!
Think we did something wrong with yesterdays pasta, all I could taste was lemon, very strong lemon.
Still entering because as a pay it forward prize it would be awesome, but haven’t got anything else to say about Australia Day.
Aus Day 2012 – Up at the crack of dawn to beach celebrations with a bacon and egg roll then bbq with friends. lamb, sausages, beer and surf – what else could you want
Had the best Australia Day, enjoyed a well deserved sleep in, followed by a BBQ lunch with friends.
the usual steak & snags but will also be cooking some beautiful kangaroo fillets
Twas my first Australia Day so we took an early walk on the beach then later visited family,and later yet we made pizza in the brick oven mmmm
Australia day seems a long way away.Next Australia day, maybe we’ll have a barbie.
Next Australia day I’d love to try the ribs you’ve written about today, although I’m sure I’ll be trying them before that.
I spent the last Australia day on the plane reading My Life in France by Julia Child. Luckily the plane food was tasty :p
On Oztrayla Day this year we drove through the green farmlands of rural NSW to visit our friends where we ate BBQ’d lamb and pavlova and drank Hunter Valley sparkling reds – superb!
One Oztrayla Day evening we saw the movie “Australia” at the outdoor cinema, on the screen amongst the gum trees – it was a cheesy film, but a great vibe as the whole audience got into it booing the baddies when they came on screen and cheering on the goodies.
Any Jan 26 that involves a barbie and the outdoors is a winner in my book.
Had a brilliant day with friends
Maybe I’ll throw the shrimp on the barbie like the Americans think we do. :p
This competition isn’t due to finish till the 19th. not sure what I’m meant to babble on about, but having never cooked a shrimp or prawn in my life, i’ll go along with Ravels idea of throwing a shrimp on the barbie next Australia Day.
My Mother’s birthday is 26 January so each Australia Day we spend it with her. It was rather bitter-sweet though this year, as it was her first year in a nursing home, due to debilitating dementia and alzheimers disease. We were still there together though, being thankful for each other and for this wonderful country we were born in.
I think now that we are well and truely after Australia Day I should start planning for a BIG ONE next year… After all being overseas with work on Australia Day this year meant that the festivities just werent the same… Maybe a good fashioned BBQ is needed next year?
For next Australia Day, maybe um can you make garlic prawns on the barbie? I love garlic prawns but never tried to make them.
For next Australia Day I’d like to make a lamington tiramisu
I made a tiramisu last night – skipped the cream and doubled the mascarpone. The result: luscious! :p
The key to a successful Australia Day is planning in advance. Plan to take a couple of days off before and after Australia Day
Next Australia Day, apart from all the usual things like sausages and steak that we’ll be frying up the bbq, I’d like to make some Aussie meat pies and tomato sauce from scratch!
I think next year we might host Australia day at our place. It’s been ages and I do love to entertain.
If we don’t host Australia Day celebrations at our house I think we’ll take off somewhere for a mini break.
Hmmm next year here is hoping the weather is sunny and warm. We’ll head to the fish markets pick up a selection of prawns, oysters, octopus and anything else that looks yummy before heading of to Pyrmont Point park to feast away under the shade of a tree – divine
Next Australia Day I’d like to make macadamia shortbread in the shape of a kangaroo (gotta make a kangaroo shaped cookie cutter first!). Maybe Qantas would like to pick me as their cookie supplier :p
I am going to have friends over for Australia Day next year. We’ll have a bbq in the courtyard of my apartment. I will make my special pavlova for dessert (I put custard apples in the topping to give it a tropical touch). This will be followed by a swim in the pool.
Maybe for Australia Day next year, a roast leg of lamb, or mutton, with rosemary and garlic, baked vegies, and yorkshire pudding. I think yorkshire pudding goes with all roast meats,not just beef.
The more I think about it the mroe a weekend away sound nice for next year. The toss up will be what kind of going away? Camping, Hotel, Family visit, B&B etc
we enjoyed some lovely slow cooked marinated ribs on the barbie with some friends whilst sitting outside drinking cider
I’d like to make mango and cream Weis bar ice cream using your recipe. Will throw in some QLD macadamia nuts – that’s pretty Australian right?
Following my previous comment – I’ll make sure to include some chorizo in the bbq. Understand that they are not very Aussie but they are sure very tasty.
Maybe next Australia Day a pavlova, but made like a swiss roll, with lots of cream and passionfruit
I’ll be having friends over next Australia Day so I’m looking forward to all the cooking I’ll be doing (some of my friends will be happy that they don’t have to do any cooking – aren’t they strange?).
Hubby became a citizen on the day,
So we had a party and got carried away.
Lamb on the BBQ with beer,
Good Olde Aussie cheer!
Next Australia Day I will have friends over as usual. They always request that I make my special pavlova for dessert. I add custard apples in the topping to give it a tropical touch (it is hard work getting all the seeds out!). I think I will also make a custard apple puree and swirl it into the cream topping =D
If I am lucky enough to win this prize perhaps I will serve some Spanish jamon next Australia Day after tasting the delicious looking one from Brookvale Meats!
bbq some kangaroo fillets for the family
Next Australia Day maybe just a platter of beautiful fresh Australian fruit in season, with a big serving of beautiful cherries from cherries direct, one of my newest finds.
Australia day means loading up the car and driving to Melbourne to see the family. Singing along to Barnsey and maybe Farnsey and searching for the town with the best sausage rolls. Goulburn is the winner so far. Coming back to a gourmet meat hamper to share with my Sydney family would be bonzer mate.
Relax at home with family by the pool and have a bbq lunch.
For afternoon tea next Australia day, I found Snowy Mountain Cookies last year, and they really are lovely. My mission this year is to be a better, and better supporter of Aussie made.
Maybe next year for Australia Day, for morning tea some fresh hot damper with butter and golden syrup would be nice.
On this day I will be eating Rack of Lamb with a beautiful butter and mustard sauce! Nettie
I think I’m running out of imagination to think of next year Australia Day treats, but because the dream is for this to be a pay it forward prize I’ll keep going for the last few days.
Next Australia day a 2 kilo box of cherries from cherries direct will be simply yummy. I’ve always loved cherries, but didn’t know they were this delicious
Having a bbq and playing under the sprinkler with the kids while soaking up what is left of the sunshine this year
Mates through our gates, blow up pool to keep cool, beer for good cheer and lamb (I blame Sam!) Hooray for Australia Day!
For next Australia Day, some lovely fresh lamingtons with with fresh cream on the side would be nice.
I’m really lo0oking forward to seeing some of the recipes you come up with this year and cooking those
Australia Day was spent with my best mates on Lord Howe Island. We had the blow up Aussie thong and beach ball. Spend the day swimming and snorkeling, followed by a beach BBQ. It will be a hard one to top next year but I am sure we’ll give it a good go
It was spent at Brighton Beach with the dog! She definitely enjoyed the meat that day in the sun!
I went for a bike ride and then relaxed in the backyard with a family BBQ.
I would love to win this – I think apart from the usual things we cook on the barbie, I will prepare an antipasti plate with Salchichon Spain’s best salami from Brookvale meats (=D), Spanish jamon, pancetta, sundried tomato, olive, fetta cheese, bread sticks and toasted Italian bread. How about some duck liver pate and French baguette to promote multiculturalism?
The sausages from Brookvale meats sound unusually delicious. Would love to try the duck, orange and pistachio one.
To start, a DIP in the sea, then a CRACKER of a cricket game on the beach, followed by some MEATY 4-Wheel Driving!
We all had a wonderful Australia Day ending with a street BBQ. We have seven nations in our street. Ozzie’s, ABC’s (Australian Born Chinese, Ukrainian, English, Scottish, Irish, Turkish. We all brought a dish and ended playing backyard cricket. Happy Australia Day Nigella!
Enjoying a BBQ and Pavlova feast with friends to celebrate Australia Day and the fact that the kids are on their way back to school!
BBQ by the pool!
We had a street party. The BBQ was sizzling, the beers were cold & the kids were playing cricket. Slip ‘n Slide even made an appearance.
I stayed home and put my new BBQ together. Still have not christened it yet…good meat from a butcher would help
A BBQ with lamb, steak and shrimps with low calorie low strength beer.
A backyard barbecue with family and friends, and listening to great music would be relaxing. A pavlova would be a fabulous dessert to finish it.
My beautiful Cousin and I are Blessed to catch up with our kids , and experience the best foods ever together..!
I spent the day with great company, singing Australian songs and enjoying everything that makes Australia.
We always have a BBQ with the cousins and all their kids… Nothing beats Yummy lamb and shrimp on the barbie.
I work on Australia Days…at citizenship ceremonies. Fortunately the council puts on a traditional sausage sizzle as part of the festivities!
I worked Australia Day – was hopeful of catching a baby or 2 but it didn’t happen.
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