Let the Christmas celebrations begin!

Last Saturday we had our 1st Christmas celebration of the year, also the 1st Portuguese Christmas party in Singapore for the Portuguese parents & children. The occasion couldn´t have been more perfect to meet other Portuguese parents, but also to share our traditional dishes at this time of the year. It´s amazing how we all have in common this passion for cooking and for keeping our Portuguese traditions alive miles away from home. Most Portuguese women I know and have met at this party have a genuine interest in cooking and are excellent cooks from what I could see.

Four large tables were hardly enough to place all the food that everybody prepared, from pies to cakes, meat, desserts and all the very typical Christmas delicacies that no one can resist... except me, due to the gestational diabetes. Hard though this might be, I try not to make many exceptions in my current diet, specially now that I´m only 2 weeks away from my due date. Yes, 2 weeks!

My contribution to the party was codfish cakes - that disappear in a blink of an eye! - and carrot cakes. Last year year I posted a recipe to prepare the carrot cakes, but last Saturday I tried a new recipe that it´s even better! I´m going to post it this week... unless Lucas decides it´s time to go to the hospital :)

For now I leave you some photos of our 1st Portuguese Christmas Celebration in Singapore and mouth-watering table!