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Christmas always evokes special food memories for me. While my mum always cooked the yummiest traditional fare for Christmas lunch, my paternal aunt was famous for her most amazing Christmas Roast Chicken stuffed with absolutely delicious bread stuffing. I have vivid memories of being seated around the dining table at my uncle's place - along with my cousins and enjoying this happy meal.
While traditionally Pork Bafat and Sanna also made it to the table, the most popular and on demand fare was this roast. Since back home, my mum never worked with an oven (in those days not everyone had an oven - some could not afford it while the others thought it was rocket science to put it to good use), we enjoyed her most delectable traditional curries and side dishes all moped up with cottony soft sanna or appams.
While I had tasted this roast made by my aunt just a couple of times, the taste lingered on for many years thereafter. When the blog came into existence and family life demanded that I venture out of my comfort zone and try out different specialities that were worthy of a feast, I attempted to make this aided with a recipe from a book. Result - absolute disaster. The method was funny and the little voice in my head asked me not to follow it - yet I did and down went the chicken down the bin. Well, not really. We ate a nicely baked but bland roast chicken with a soggy (yucky!) bland stuffing.
