That sounds tasty!
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Last night was very economical as it involved leftovers and emptying the fridge. The chicken breasts that survived Christmas were breaded and air-fried. Delicious as they came out, I don’t want to see chicken for a few days. 
Roasted some potatoes in my new roasting pan. Generic shot:
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OMG, Schmorgurken! They’re even hard to find outside of German regions where they’re et (like Berlin or Brandenburg) – or at least that was the case where I grew up.
Your treatment of them is decidedly exotic. I’ve only ever had them stuffed with ground beef.
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LOL! That line sounds familiar. 
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Quickie dinner - fish fillets with tartar sauce, tots with ketchup, steamed broccoli and cauliflower with Bleu cheese dressing, and green salad with white wine honey-mustard vinaigrette. Molasses cookie for dessert.
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Dinner last night - beef and barley vegetable soup made with stock from the leftover prime rib bones from Xmas dinner. Satisfying after the indulgent feast.
A small grilled cheese too.
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Stolen right off your damn plate.
Bagel with whitefish salad, onion & tomato. Artichoke hearts. Herring in cream sauce. Pickles. Endive with cream cheese & caviar.
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Italian sausage. Skin removed . Finely chopped. Added chopped ham . Bread with a little milk . Whisked a egg. Flattened then added smoked gouda with some basil leaves. Rolled it like sushi in parchment paper. Cooked in the oven . Topped with sauteed mushrooms. Over polenta cakes . Cheers .
The truth after pulling the rolled sausage out of the oven I’m sitting in a room of acrid smoke . It totally fell apart after opening. The rest of the sides were meh . I’m going to pull the curtains and reinstall myself. My cooking has been horrible lately. Going back to square one . Lol .
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Don’t beat yourself up, it happens to most of us time to time. Better luck tomorrow when you reinstall your next version! But I’m sure the cheese was excellent.
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Silver lining: Nowhere to go but up.
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I’ll be back tomorrow with fabulous. Thank you . A couple bad plays won’t hold me back .
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I couldn’t bear to have chicken tonight, so a panini with turkey, provolone, tomato, and my horseradish Dijon aioli it was.
Scotch and soda to drink.
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Red Curry Soup with leeks, cavolo nero and egg noodles - the soup wasn’t as red as expected as our current red curry paste is much hotter than expected and so just two teaspoons were enough instead of the suggested four tablespoons. Interesting flavor combinations as the base with red curry paste, tahini, honey, soy sauce and butter.
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Baked a frozen Tourtière. I purchased this one. It was made by 2 sisters running a bakery only open 2 days a week, and it tastes like homemade.
Tourtière is a common Xmas and NYE food in Quebec and in French Canadian communities across Canada.
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I enlisted 2 other pairs of idle hands to stuff gyoza yesterday! Served with white rice, some lightly marinated carrots and radish, and a very salty-potent dipping sauce because I don’t often use dark soy and forget how strong it is. The gyoza were filled with 8oz of ground pork, some sliced sauteed red cabbage (out of green at store), garlic, ginger, pinch of sugar and pepper, salt, and a drop of fish sauce. Yes they look purple. That’s the cabbage.
In other news, my generally mild town right on the water (annual temps generally between 40-75) was 7 degrees in the am yesterday and got to a high of about 15. It has NEVER been this cold here. We had gotten 2 days of snow prior, so we are just inside looking out and occasionally clearing our sloped driveway. The kids had sledded the day before for an hour, but they went out yesterday and came back 25 min later and said they just couldn’t. I’m caught between carpe diem mama and frostbite fingers mama. 
It won’t get above 32 here for another 4 days or so…
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I’m so very late to this party…
Dogmas at seester’s. We tended to (MANY) dogs, we watched Cabaret, as is our holiday tradition. Also the Julia documentary, which was fabulous! we ate and ate and drank, as is also our holiday tradition.
first dinner was butter. In the form of buttery AF mashed potatoes with a really fancy French butter, heavy cream, a little bit of leftover truffle butter, and some regular butter. Plus moar butter for the mashed potato lake. A Snake River ribeye filet turned out perfectly, and was delicious, but I prefer a regular ribeye steak. Haricots verts given to my sister by a client - not homegrown, prepackaged, were really kind of tasteless and I had to do a lot to them. TPSTOB, garlic, shallots, salt, lemon, and finally panko. Good! A Spanish Albariño bubbly, also gifted by one of her clients, tasted a lot like a sparkling cider. Very dry & crisp. Paired it with Viu Manent Semillon from Chile.
And I got my Zingerman’s order! Onion rye, corned beef, Benton’s bacon, chocolate peanut brittle, whole clementines in chocolate (OMG), pimento cheese (OMG), and also a chili cheese loaf I brought home to the BF. We sampled a bit in the afternoon, everything super tasty, but very small portions, which is probably for the best. Had the corned beef on the onion rye - very good, but actually a bit salty for my taste (and i’m a salt hound) and also too lean for me.
We also had a gorgeous sashimi night, all courtesy of my sister’s knife work. and I made anchovy and garlic roasted peppers.
and finally, a lamb lollipop each and (unpictured) Snake River pork chop we split - the juiciest, most tender chop I’ve ever made. No tenderizing necessary, both the lamb and pork simply marinated in evoo, crushed garlic, fresh thyme, and s&p. Sister made the creamiest mashed potatoes (her favorite, so we had them twice), and I made The Kitchn’s caesar salad dressing, which turned out great. finished off the last tiny bit of Armagnac my sister bought in Paris years ago, with Strauss eggnog.
Very sadly, we lost our sweet old lady Lola yesterday… She was 13. We’ve had and will have many beloved dogs in our lives, but Lola’s left a huge hole in our hearts. Here she is, my last pic of her, taken on Xmas Eve. RIP, Lolita…
Belatedly hoping everyone had a lovely holiday… now on to NYE! and hopefully a non-sucky (or even not as) 2022.
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Those gyoza look AMAZING!!
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Lola looks like a Very Good Dog and so sweet. Very sorry for your loss.
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Sorry for your loss 
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