Jhardae - Food in my culture

Christmas

In my family we celebrate Christmas. I enjoy celebrating Christmas with my family, because we get nice food and presents! We celebrate Christmas at our house or my grandad’s house. I love the food my family makes. For lunch we have potato salad, roast chicken, hangi, roast pork, pizza, trifle,  jelly, ice-cream, and BBQ. My mum always has a Christmas stocking for me and my brother but we save it until everything is finished so we can eat our share in front of our cousins.

When we have hangi we have to wait for ages for it to cook. After it’s cooked my grandad pulls it out of the ground and puts it on the table. My cousins and I rushed to the table and got our plates faster than anyone else.  We go inside to eat when we finished choosing our food, the desserts after we finished.  Sometimes we have chocolate cake for dessert but most of the time we just have trifle, jelly and ice-cream.

When my brother and I finish, we eat our chocolates in front of our cousins.  However we get in trouble for not sharing with them, so then we have to give our cousins some lollies.  When we give our cousins some they eat it all. I only get a little bit because, I ate slow in front of my cousins so they could get jealous.

We go to my Uncle Ron’s house afterwards, and he is cooking another barbeque. So, we all eat again because we didn’t want to waste the barbeque. After that I was really full, so I went to go lie down. Once I don’t feel so sick anymore I watched my cousins play on the xbox kinect and then we get called for ice-cream.

In my family we celebrate Christmas. I enjoy celebrating Christmas because, it gives me time to be with my loved ones. I really love the food my family makes. For lunch we have potato salad, roast chicken, hangi, roast pork, pizza, trifle,  jelly, ice-cream, and BBQ. My mum always has a Christmas stocking for me and my brother but we save it until everything is finished so we can eat our share in front of our cousins.

Jharda’e