christmas dinner, should be a hot day so going for light,well, light -ish, need to appease the traditional 'roast in the middle of summer' family members anyway fresh mussels with chillie and lime butter crayfish (lobster) with spanish chocolate sauce - i up both the cocoa and chillies weeeeyheeeeey..actually anyone have recipes for the sauce,i'm not entiiiirely happy with mine,have tasted better.would appreciate yours.. and i'm tossing up between a roast chicken and a roast pork loin, thinking the pork, prob done with a chilli citrus glaze/rub type thing(technical lol),honey chillies lime kaffir lime leaves. instead of traditional roast vegies going for this great little avocado salad,sooo easy soooo tasty you just chop up a few avocadoes to chunks, dump a few handfuls of blanched almonds on a tray with some olive oil grill em till they're golden brown then throw in your fav hot chilli powder salt pepper mix it all up and throw the almonds on top pf the avocado in a salad bowl,everyone loves it,even those without the love of the heat,the avocado hits it straight away so it just comes in little bursts ,and the almond/avocado/chilli flavour mix is great Amber Leonard _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_stopmorespam_3mf