Christmas in my family is usually very ‘asian’. In saying this, a normal Christmas would consist of fresh seafood, dad’s awesome noodles, hundreds of homemade spring rolls, whole steamed barramundi with ginger shallot, rice, vegies, etc. Over the years, my family has become very multicultural with chinese, filipino, irish, vietnamese, indian and polynesian blood that you’ll often find a range of foods from various regions.

This year we’ve decided to try and change the style of cooking by doing ‘roasts’ (slow cooking methods) as this type of cuisine is something that is cooked yearly and very rare for us. This year, we thought we’d fire up our ovens and have a good ole ‘aussie’ christmas filled a leg of ham (officially the first christmas ham i’ve ever had!) After hearing many people rave on about how awesome xmas ham is and how they could eat it for days or even months, i figured this ham must be blardy awesome and awesome it was.