Gourmet Secrets: Christmas in the Tropics

A look at how Christmas dinners have morphed into lunches in the garden centering around a barbecue and much more in the way of salads and veggies than you’d see on any British Christmas table

It’s the festive season again. Well, it has been for the past couple of months well before Diwali and through this year’s bout of “wedding mania”. Somehow, Christmas is when the real fun begins and when it suddenly dawns on me that another year has gone! This is when I throw caution, deadlines and all other work commitments to the wind and decide to have a good time myself (which usually involves large amounts of cooking) and share the spirit with friends.

In the tropics, Christmas dinners have morphed into garden lunches with barbecue(Shutterstock)

Christmas pudding (Shutterstock)

Broccoli and cheese gratin with hazlenuts