Christmas "Bring 'n braai" at my house

Sunday we attended the biker church service at Lighuis in Vredenburg and then club members were invited to bring and braai at our house in Saldanha. For my overseas readers who might not know the concept, the "bring 'n braai" is quite popular here when large groups get together and the host doesn't have to bear the cost of supplying food and booze for everyone, they bring their own meat and drinks. Janet made two salads and Kathy brought a dish of her lovely miellie pap tert, one of my favourites made with miellie meal, cheese and bacon. (How can it be bad with ingredients like that?!)

I went down to the harbour on Friday and collected a bag of fresh mussels from Blue Ocean Mussels to give my guests a lovely starter, I lit the fires at 10h00 and they started to gather.

As host it's my duty to check quality!

They soon gathered around

The mussels were lovely, I still enjoy eating them and the fact that I can get them fresh whenever I want is one of the advantages of living in Saldanha.

After the mussels it was time to start braaing, it was a very hot day but everyone got stuck in.

Everyone braais their own meat

Sampie and Metjie

Laureen braais for Murray

Stefanie and Elsje

Nearly ready

Seeking shelter from the heat Metjie and Daan retreated into the forrest.

Henrico chatting Janet up

Festive group

Afterwards everyone sat on the verandah and we enjoyed the  comfortable banter that usually follows a good meal.

Frank, Henrico, Metjie and Gerrie

Adrie, Bev and Daan

Gerrie and Monika demonstrate the bug

and everyone has a go at it

We ended off with Janet's very popular "Millionaire's shortbread" which didn't last for very long at all. It was a great party, a happy and festive group. People started leaving after that except for Frank, I eventually kicked him out at 18h00!
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