What a luscious pic of the chicken dish!
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Very simple but satisfying dinner roasted on a small sheet pan with sequential additions: Dixie Fry chicken thigh, potatoes (to which TPSTOB was applied), out of season asparagus (Peru) with a squeeze of lemon.
I rarely buy out of season asparagus because on top of the whole carbon footprint thing, it so rarely looks worth eating. But I have noticed that right around Christmas there’s often some that looks quite fresh and that was the case today. Glad I yielded to the impulse, it was very good and I doubt I’ll have any again till it’s in season in the spring.
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!
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@LindaWhit I like it a lot, thanks very much for recommending it. Third or fourth time I’ve used it, always sprayed with a bit of avocado oil and baked.
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Early Christmas gifts to myself. I drank wine and played carly simon anticipation for 3 hours before opening. What’s for dinner . Pan sauteed skirt steak in a little duck fat . Polenta with Parmigiano reggiano. Merry Christmas everyone. Cheers . 2 year aged on the left . 4 year on the right
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Great choice of music to be played in advance of opening! Enjoy the exalted (rightly so) cheese!
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'Tis the season, partie deux.
Mini crab boil with Old Bay butter, mixed greens salad, radish, sugar snaps, green onion and creamy Greek dressing. Wine.
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Traffic today was insane. I live in a very populated area so I’m used to it but today was unusual even for the season. Hit the liquor store, Italian market, and Trader Joe’s. Such a round trip would normally be 90 minutes, tops. Today was nearly three hours. Lines were not long in stores necessarily, but traffic was bumper to bumper.
Dinner tonight therefore was a low-effort but experimental Chicken Tikka Masala pizza with a garlic naan base. Hey, I was bored. I had wanted to use mozzarella but was out and settled for cheddar instead. Ended up being pretty good!
No booze tonight because of what is anticipated tomorrow!
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Not very picturesque but pretty tasty. Thai green curry with vegetables I still have from my last CSA box (a special winter assortment including, yacon, baby bok choy, and onions) plus peppers, water chestnuts and straw mushrooms. Coconut milk, Maesri Green Curry Paste, and makrut lime leaves were combined to make the sauce. Served over thin fettuccini since I had it made already.
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Indian pizza is quite popular here in the Bay area - just one random example
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Risotto with fresh calamari (and carrots, celery, tomatoes, olives and parmesan (ignoring all Italian rules)
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Make-room-in-the-fridge-for-brunch-stuff cabbage, sauerkraut and shiitake mushroom soup. Also leftover lasagna, but microwaving it made it spread out on the plate, so it did not look very appetizing. Hence, not pictured.
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I beg to differ. And I learned about a new tuber!
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We are having a very non-Christmas Christmas this year - the kid-toting half of the family is missing again (COVID-related visa delays, flight schedule disruptions, and all those fun things), so it doesn’t feel a bit like Christmas.
Plus our plate is overly full with an impending move for my parents, so no one is thinking about much else.
Anyway… Others went out to run critical errands, so I made dinner - Penang curry and rice.
Vegetarian - broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, shallots, and a bit of paneer instead of tofu.
Non-vegetarian - we had some gorgeous pink shrimp delivered earlier, so I marinated (garlic & chili) and pan-fried them and served on the side because I thought the curry would muddy their flavor. They were so tasty, I’m glad they were separate!
No pics because… I forgot (and I was pretty tired).
Merry Christmas to all celebrating!
Our Christmas lunch tomorrow will be the “traditional” one, as if the kids were here - their favorite meal: DIM SUM! Hahahahahaha (We have to have it or they will be very unhappy when we video chat - bad enough they can’t eat it, they want to make sure someone does!)
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Thank you. I had no idea what a yacon was nor that I had them until I went back to check the list that came with the box. It was very nice. Now I hope I can find it in a store.
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Deconstructed oysters Rockefeller, cod and crab with mushrooms and white wine, Waldorf with some gifted apples and grapes, oysters with onions, bacon and gruyère.
Merry Christmas!
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We had new carpet installed on our top floor a couple of days ago, and Mrs. P was too exhausted to cook anything for Christmas, (from all of the heavy furniture moving back and forth). We decided to order our favorite dishes from Don Pepe II, which inadvertently turned out to be a feast of the seven fishes (lobster, shrimp, crab, scallops, mussels, clams, and calamari) 
We enjoyed seafood stuffed avocado and lobster, as well as paella Valenciana (which we will mainly eat tomorrow). It all went great with an outstanding Oakville Napa cabernet. I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas.
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Christmas Eve consisted of dirty martinis, Chinese food, and the 1984 version of “A Christmas Carol”. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
The scallion pancake appetizer was done in my new air fryer!
As always, the cat was in trouble…
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I like the look on the cats face . Well are you going to serve me a drink . Or are we over this . Lol .
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