Happy anniversary!
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Grading is done. I am free until next year.
For two adults in San Diego:
Breakfasts: Alternating granola and fruit with some indulgence.
S: Takeout - Chile verde burrito
Su: Breakfast burrito, for something simple.
M: (tonight) Lentil soup - postponed from last week - vegetarian
T: My birthday. Plans: going out for breakfast, pointing at books in our favorite bookstore for my husband to buy for me, picking up a few slices of cake and takeout for dinner.
W: Baked pasta (red sauce, sausage, spinach, cheese)
Th: Breakfast - eggs, sausage, fruit, and French toast. Dinner - A twist on our traditional cordon bleu: Pasta (chicken, ham, aged gruyere, garlic, and peas)
F: Crab cakes on a bed of creamed spinach with garlic bread - seafood
Take care of yourselves!
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Happy birthday @dustchick !
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Happy birthday & happy book shopping, @dustchick 
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Happy birthday @dustchick! 
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Happy Birthday!
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Tonight: (frozen prepared) cottage pie, steamed broccoli; I have a nasty head cold
Christmas Eve: Our friends are cooking pasta alla puttanesca with either swordfish or tuna steaks; we are bringing a kale salad with roasted butternut squash, pomegranates, and goat cheese, and Serious Eats’ focaccia. There will be bubbly.
Christmas: Friend is bringing charcuterie and cheese board and olives; I’ll be serving home pickled vegetables, Chex mix, pickled okra, Brie en croute, beef sirloin stroganoff with homemade egg noodles, green beans amandine, red wine cranberry-orange-apple sauce, and Lofthouse-style frosted soft sugar cookies (assuming the recipe works out). Red wine.
Boxing Day: pulled pork from the freezer with ww buns
12/27: miso tofu and cauliflower grain bowls with lime
12/28: cheesy ground beef and southwest quinoa 'n bean stuffed baked peppers (repurposing from the freezer)
12/29: lasagna (from the freezer) and salad
12/30: ground chicken picadillo w/rice and Honduran bean soup (from the freezer)
12/31: I’m bringing beef empanadas to a party
That’s as far as I’ve gotten for 2 parents and a kid in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Sounds delicious and hope your head cold is gone by tomorrow!!!
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Thank you–me so too!
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Greetings, People. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all who celebrate!
Looking at my menu plan for this week, I see I’ll be over-cooking again, leaving A LOT of leftovers for breakfasts and snacking. So be it. It’s the holidays. Next week will be Soup Week to mitigate the damage.
Cooking for two adults in the PNW:
FRI: Post party day, WFD will be pizza from the freezer and romaine in Caesar dressing.
SAT: Salmon Caesar.
SUN: Ottolenghi’s fish cakes in tomato sauce. I’ll use halibut. Will serve over rice.
MON: Big sausage roll (plait). Salad greens.
TUE: The annual Cougar Gold monster mac and cheese. Thomas Keller’s fried chicken (I’ll shallow fry in my antique chicken fryer). Salad greens.
WED: Leftovers chicken and M&C.
THUR: Steaks. More M&C. Salad greens.
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
I hope everyone has a nice day today, whether it’s Christmassy food, Chinese take-out, or anything else you fancy 
This morning, I will be serving Quebec-made panettone, fried pork chops, poached eggs with hollandaise for breakfast. Egg nog, masala chai or cider. Coffee from my Danish Advent calendar, I fell behind!
This evening, we are going the Teutonic route, with roasted goose with red cabbage and potato dumplings. I may also do the roasted apples that are mentioned in a Saveur article about a Viennese Xmas.
Boxing Day, I’ll make our family spanakopita, with several greens and several herbs.
The 27th, I think I’ll make Tourtière. I usually make the Martin Picard tourtière du Shack, from Au Pied de Cochon in Montreal. I will try a different recipe from my Canada’s 100 Best Magazine this year .
Cheese Fondue from a package on the 28th.
Maybe take-out on the 29th.
Something fancy on the 30th, have not figured that out yet.
Baking a birthday cake on the 31st. I am currently leaning towards a Black Forest Cake or maybe Donauwelle. Our neighbour is making Seafood Stew on New Year’s Eve.
NYD: I want to make Shuba Salad. I will probably make lentils. I haven’t figured out our main yet.
I might also make Joanne Chang’s Sticky Buns for NYD breakfast.
Hope this is a good week for everyone.
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As some of you know, our xmas eve seafood extravaganza had to be cancelled due to my PIC’s health issues. Bummer, but there’s worse things in the world. We did get to spend a few hours at our friends’ house for their xmas dinner yesterday.
Since my PIC’s health issues are GI-related, our meals in the coming days won’t be particular exciting. He can’t even have any of his wonderful pistachio ice cream bc it has so many nuts in 
I saved our hosts’ turkey carcass from being tossed into the garbage 
(I would’ve snagged the legs and wings as well had I known), and it’s currently simmering away in a big pot along with an onion to make broth for my PIC’s dinner tonight. He can’t really have any veg either, which is just as fine bc were currently getting a steady downpour of sleet and ice into the wee hours of Saturday morn, which means no trip to the stupid market for leeks or carrots. He should be able to have some noodz, tho, without causing him any pain. 
And so, Saturday might be more turkey broth for him, or maybe we can finish the 4 ricotta ravs from Talluto we have left in the freezer with the last dredges of a jar of Rao’s marinara.
This naturally also means a Non-Ssssspicy Ssssssunday, so I’m a bit stumped. One day at a time, I guess 
Monday I am hosting a bunch of my gal pals for a showing of When Harry Met Sally on the big screen, as an astonishing number of them have never seen the movie. We’ll probz order Detroit-style pizza & I’ll make popcorn for after.
Tuesday morning I have a brain scan for random headaches I’ve been getting recently, which is highly unusual for me — and given my triple neg cancer history it’s probz a good idea to have it checked out. Dinner still depends on how my PIC is doing, and what he can & cannot eat.
Naturally our NYE plans also depend on what the man is up to. My annual First Night gig happens to be more like a First Early Afternoon gig — it being at 2pm — which means I’m a free agent afterwards & could check out some of my fellow musicians’ performances throughout the afternoon and evening. Our city friends are in town surprisingly & were hopeful to meet up with us, so it’s possible we’ll gather a few other lost souls and hang at our favorite watering hole dowtown. Whether we make it to midnight is anyone’s guess. If not…
New Year’s Day might be soup, the nature of which is TBD.
Friday’s too far away for me to consider at the mo. It’s next year, after all 
Here’s wishing everyone a smooth transition to a hopefully much, much, MUCH better year than this catastrophic dumpster fire of hell. Good riddance, and fingers crossed.
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This all sounds fabulous! 
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Thank you! I ended up taking care of the goose carcass today, instead of making spanakopita. It took around 5 hours.
I made about 4 cups of Ganseklein, and 6 cups of goose pho (without noodles). All frozen now. I need more round glass containers for 4 cups / 8 cups of soup.
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The January thread is up, for when you are ready.
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