photos: gingerbread houses of 2011

quicko: destruction of gingerbread houses

A big, mean Australian destroying my cute little gingerbread house.

quicko: gingerbread houses

So, I'm having a bit of an open house ...

No, really, isn't it cute?  (You have to say yes.  Go on.)

But really, here's the thing (did I mention this last year?):

Australians eat their gingerbread houses.  How wrong is that?

I actually tried my gables (how often can you say that?) and was amazed to realize they were kind of chewy.

Kind of chewy!  I'd never had gingerbread that wasn't stale, unless of course you mean real, homemade gingerbread which is very different and one of my all-time top ten favorite desserts.