That looks awesome @ChristinaM! Is the fondue in a crockpot? If so, how clever. Well, me thinks I’m way overdue for fondue!
Those are some creative dippers!
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Yep! We have a Mini. 
And no fondue pot.
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I had some Trader Joes’ figs to use up, and was in a pizza-ing mood this morning, so dinner.
Fig butter/confiture, sliced figs, prosciutto, caramelized onions, goat cheese, topped with arugula after cooking in the oven.
A bit sweet overall for a full meal (smaller pieces would be good for an appeateaser) but it was still very good.
Oh, there WAS wine!
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So very sorry for your loss. Your grandma sounds like a wonderful woman who filled the lives of those around her with much love and deliciousness. From all I’ve seen here, you carry on those traditions in a way she’d surely be proud of. This is such a terribly difficult time. Hope you are able to lean on those around you and find comfort in each other and the things you love.
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We had an excellent dinner indoors at our favorite Thai restaurant. We hadn’t eaten indoors there in over 6 months, but have done takeout several times. The tables were very well spaced and the servers wore masks and shields plus gloves. Everything was delicious but we didn’t like the fact that they switched to paper napkins from cloth napkins, plus they gave us containers and made us wrap our own takeout. I’m surprised they didn’t make us do the dishes as well 
We get dressed up and dine out to be served and not to do half the server’s work and still leave them a 20% tip. They had a whole new staff and it was our servers first day. We will probably do takeout in the future I guess until they get back to 100% and full service. We ordered a ton of food and have nice leftovers for another meal. Besides our usually awesome dishes of Southern crab curry, crab dip, papaya salad, Phad Phed beef, and crispy betel leaves, we tried a couple of new additions to the menu of crispy Isaan rice ball, and Pad Cha seafood. It all went great with an excellent cabernet.
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I feel for you. She was on hospice care for only three days before she succumbed. It was all so quick. In a matter of 10 days she went from total independence (though not without issues that all people in their 90s face) to hospital to passing on. However, the hospice staff she had was absolutely wonderful. So good, in fact, we requested donations to them in her obituary in lieu of flowers.
We were able to visit her one at a time until she went into full hospice care. Then it did not matter. She was lucid until the day before. She even told my BF, “I still have my marbles. Make sure you tell them I have my marbles.” (That was always her phrase). And I have not shared this publicly yet, but our final conversation was her expressing regret that we did not all go out to dinner one last time because of the virus shutting everything down. She took the three of us out every few months or so.
My stomach is still in knots. Actually it was severe pain until yesterday when it faded away (I was starting to worry LOL). Between work and that, the stress has been unreal but is finally heading back to “normal”.
My thoughts are with you in these difficult times. I wish you peace and comfort.
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My BF has done a wonderful job taking over cooking dinner this week. He outdid himself with this: Julia Child’s Coq au Vin. Basically the chicken version of Beef Bourguignon, which he made last month for the first time. It involved butchering a whole chicken and cooking it for hours to produce a rich wine gravy. I made the mashed potatoes and he made a bread to go with it.
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I’m glad to see wine was back on the menu. I was a bit worried after yesterday’s wineless dinner. And that pizza looks delicious!
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Full indian meal tonight, with a friend of the family over for socially distanced backyard dinner.
Kheema aloo (ground lamb with potatoes), okra with caramelized onions and cashew paste, dal with garlic tempering, cabbage kofta in tomato gravy, naan, pea pulao. Quite a delicious meal if I do say so myself 
I made everything except the tomato gravy and the naan - mostly because I had time this afternoon and others were busy, and also because I had made components earlier (dal was cooked and frozen, finished today, kheema was made yesterday and finished today).
It has taken a pandemic to make me cook dal often enough that I think it’s almost as good as my mom’s now thanks to so much practice 
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That’s a nice looking (hot?) sauce drizzled over your plate!
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Love Mae Ploy the sweet Chile sauce from Thailand. It’s not hot at all . My favorite condiment. Sweet with very little bite .
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Wow ! Fabulous absolutely. Lovely plating …
I do a Swiss fondue with Kirsch Brandy (it keeps from binding up one´s bowels) …
I use Swiss Emmenthal …
Sometimes we prepare it on New Year´s Day … and then we do a Filet Mignon Fondue as the main course and then a Black Chocolate Fondue for the dessert …
It is a lovely way to bring in the New Year …
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It was another long week here. Spent two days at the vet with a sick pup; apparently a stomach bug can quickly become life threatening when fluid levels get off kilter and you have a bad heart. We seem to be on the mend. Cooking a lot of bland foods for the dog and nothing for his stressed out parents. 
So last night we ordered tapas take out and it was such a wonderful break to eat good food and not have to cook. Menu was great, nicely packaged up with simple reheating directions. Sangria to drink.
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One of our favorites … Calamari, langostinos (prawns) y courgette (zucchine) fritos … !
It was lovely to enjoy 2 dear friends. Gent with tatoo, is a neighbour and his lady partner …
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Yum. I miss tapas. May need to recreate some of this delicious menu one of these days. Sorry about the rough week!
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Errands and flu shot.
Dinner decided on the fly based on what could defrost the quickest.
So a perfect medium-rare bacon cheeseburger it was, with Lamb Weston’s Super Crispy Shoestring Fries, and a quick spinach salad with one of the last of my patio tomatoes and a large sliced radish with a lemon-honey vinaigrette. I added dried cranberries and goat cheese after the pic.
There was wine.
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Having lost my mother and older brother within 16 days of each other last year in Nov and Dec, I fully understand this pain. All I can say is while you’re trying to take care of others, please make sure you take care of you. Allow yourself to grieve, even in private moments. It does help ease the stress just a little bit.
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