Pork crackling. 25 KG's worth.
One of the smaller pieces of crackling from the box
You could seriously smell the crackling the meters away and it was definitely the highlight of this year's xmas picnic. The crackling was super crunchy and covered in salt. Dangerously addictive. You might think it would be easy to break apart but believe me, it actually required some muscles. I guess you could consider it as a semi 'work out' for every piece of crackling right?.....
Roast chicken and fried tofu rice paper rolls
This year I made some rice paper rolls with roast chicken and deep fried tofu. It certainly wasn't the authentic kind of rice paper rolls but I assumed they were good enough because they were all gone halfway through the feasting!
The annual food bloggers xmas picnic basically translates to be a massive food fest followed by a heavy duty food coma. It is not possible to walk away feeling either hungry or slightly peckish. There are always endless amounts of good food and here are this year's platters (apologies if I have missed taking a snapshot of your dish).
Cheese platter from a Foodie's joy
Mini lempers
More savoury dishes include 84th and 3rd's pie and The Heart of Food's deep fried cheese balls
Pesto and Tomato puffs from The Adventures of Miss Piggy
Another savory by Penguin says feed me
Top left: Chicken and cheese wraps by See Food Diet
Bottom left: Cheese, bacon and veggie slice by The Suze Chef
Right: Pulled lamb by Jeroxie
Crunchy tiger's bread
And now time for desserts...
Cupcakes by Love Swah
Top left: Chiffon cake by Angie loves to eat
Top right: Santa deco-rolls by Oh Ayana
Bottom left: Raspberry and coconut cupcakes
Bottom right: Salted caramel and maltesers macarons by Ramen Raff
Left: Xmas Kristy Kremes by Nessy Eater
Top right: Chocolate fudge and caramel brownies
Bottom right: Truffle popcorn by vxdollface
Last but not least.. the man that sets up his own pop up bar...
Simon Food Favourites' pop up bar
Surprisingly, there were were more savory dishes this year so that was a bonus. I wasn't able to stomach everything but based on the dishes I tried, everything tasted really good.
For the savory dishes, the Heart of Food's deep fried cheese were very addictive. I may have had more than one.... heh. Miss Piggy's pastry puffs and Jeroxie's pulled lamb were both very scrumptious and as a bread addict, crunchy tiger's home made bread is always a winner for me.
As for desserts, Angie's pandan chiffon cake was heavenly; so light and fluffy. I also scored myself one of Raff's salted caramel macarons. Do I even need to describe how great his macarons are if I said they disappeared in seconds?
Family picnic! Thank you and credits to Simon Food Favourites for the photo
It was certainly great to catch up with some familiar faces as well as meeting with some new . Lovely to see you ALL. Can't wait for the gathering next year!!Gotta go eat!!
