Hi all you Party Animals. Well, I want to be a bit greedy and bring several of my favourites. I was hoping to bring a couple of recipes from a slimming books that are currently in the Newsagents so I thought i would get permission for those first. In the meantime I have others. Marilyn wondered if we shouldn't start the party here in Tasmania. Today we are sweltering. Down in Hobart it is 37 celsius and here inside about 30, over the bass straits in Victoria where the Aussies are playing the Poms in cricket it is 42 celsius and the commentator was saying he cannot remember it being so hot there playing cricket. Now not being a true blue Aussie, rather I am a Possie (part pom, part aussie) I really do not know how to cook, the real Aussie meats like Kangaroo Patties, Emu Steaks, Crocodile which is like Crayfish, or the prawns on the barbie, so maybe one of you True Blue Aussie Armstrongs can suggest a recipe for some of those or others You can think of and maybe some nice savoury damper as well. I shall supply some salads and maybe a dessert or two. What Aussie Barbecue would be without a cricket match, so I will get my hubby to mow a strip in the front paddock and make a cricket pitch. Now if you Americans aren't into Cricket, hubby can fix up a baseball field for you in an adjoining paddock and we can kill the English in the Cricket match, just like we have done tonight in the one day cricket match. My husband Rob is a snare drum player in the local Highland Pipe Band, so maybe he can persuade the band to play a tune or two as well. Rather than ramble off some of the favourite Tasmania spots we can maybe tour before our feed. I will send along my brother Freds poem of Tasmania. It describes Tasmania very well. For a wine I like, it would be a sweet white wine, Brown Brothers Moscato. But I also like a non alcoholic wine, called Maison in red or white. To the ladies and gents who sent along a Potato Salad for me to try, I will try them all. In the meantime, I have found in a recipe book I have written down a Potato Salad, guess what it is called American Potato Salad and it combines all of the ingredients of the Potato Salads you have all sent to me and I tried it tonight and it is very nice so I will bring that as well. We will need more than one of each recipe as there will be a lot there. I will continue Next email, as this one is becoming rather lengthy. Edie