Shrimp in a garlic-ginger-peanut sauce (because we had shrimp, garlic, ginger, and peanut sauce)
Chicken saltimbocca tonight, with blackberries, snap peas and some homemade multigrain bread.
Ham, bean, potato soup, with a salad and White Russians.
I made a nice beef stew and that fed me for three days. Pretty ready for something new today.
The wet weather is making me crave some chowder, but I have too much baking to do, so I may end with something easy. Decisions, Decisions!
Pancakes and bacon, and a glass of orange juice. One of our periodic breakfasts-for-dinner.
Festive turkey pie! Not made by me, but a nice concoction seasonally available from one of the local stores. Chunks of turkey breast, stuffing, and cranberries in a pie crust.
It’s really nice with their exquisite turkey gravy, which I got in a separate quart jar. The gravy keeps a long time and I’m planning to have the rest of it with fries and other stuff over the next few months!
Chicken enchiladas today, and dessert from an unexpected source.
I got my Covid booster shot today at this little bitty pharmacy in town (their entire sales floor is maybe twice the size of my living room) and whilst I was waiting around the required 15 minutes before leaving, I noticed a little freezer next to the checkout. It had ice cream sandwiches and small cups of frozen custard from the local ice cream store, so I bought some of the sandwiches and brought them home. Pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve ever bought ice cream from a drug store - and I think that was also their only food product.
So one of those sandwiches was tonight’s treat - vanilla frozen custard between two chocolate chip cookies, half of it dipped in chocolate. Way better than the lollipops the doctor used to hand out after shots when I was a kid!
Thanks to @Paintcharge for the suggestion! Last night I made Musakhan (Sumac Chicken With Onions and Flatbread.
It was outstanding! I used chicken thighs, which were $3.25 for six large thighs.
Served with a salad and IPA.
I’m going to make a brisket - Jewish style, braised with carrots and onions and baby potatoes on the side.
Hamburger, cheese and baked potato casserole, a coupla handfuls of Bugles and a glass of ice water. Then some iced animal cookies with a cold glass of milk.
Put some chili in the slow cooker as I left this morning to play golf. Yummm!
Cheeseburgers, potato salad and watermelon.
I made two dishes tonight for the first time.
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A frittata containing ham, feta, spinach, leeks, grape tomatoes, and spices. It turned out very well.
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A soup containing leeks, navy beans, and ham. Meh, edible but nothing special.
I went to the supermarket to get things for Christmas dinner. But what about tonight? I thought chicken would be good, but SWMBO never wants chicken. Pork chops? Just had 'em last week. Also, I didn’t feel like cooking. So it was heat-and-eat BBQ pork ribs, with nuke-and-eat cauliflower in cheese sauce.
Tonight was the traditional Christmas Eve dinner of McDonald’s, enjoyed on Christmas Eve Eve because we’re having turkey with my in-laws tomorrow. I ate my Chicken McNuggets without crying this year, so I must be pretty happy. It was…McDonald’s.
My wife uses a slightly modified version of Alton Brown’s turkey recipe, and she always seems to do it better each time. I always look forward to it when she does it, and I never looked forward to turkey before she started preparing it. My favorite cornbread dressing recipe, a salad and a few other assorted sides brought by the attendees are to be had as accompaniments.
I’ll start smoking a brisket to eat Christmas day with my immediate family tomorrow after the in-laws leave. I always kind of worry about it, but it always seems to garner compliments, even if I don’t think I have the same curve of improving on it each time that my wife does with the turkey. It’s always good, but I don’t know what separates the amazingly good ones from the ones that are merely worth the time spent smoking one. Hatch chile mac n’ cheese and apple cider slaw are slated for the sides again, and I can’t imagine better ones.
Went out to a fantasic curry place with Mrs Mollusc and friends. Kirans in Houston , kind of Galleria/ Richmond area, if you are in this neck of the woods.
Big table with lots of shared curry, now way way way too stuffed, but it was worth it.
Christmas Eve and a wife who holds her Polish ancestry close means a semi-traditional Polish dinner called Wigilia or ‘vigil’. There are only two of us, so twelve courses just ain’t happening, but we had mushroom soup, cheese and potato pierogi, apple sauce, sour cream, all preceded by the breaking of the oplatek wafer which symbolizes the gift of daily bread and wishing for good things in the coming year. And while there is not supposed to be any meat involved, pierogi without bacon and onions is just wrong.
Tomorrow morning’s breakfast will be scrambled eggs, kielbasa and babka. Our babka is not made with chocolate, but rather with cinnamon and walnuts.
Today was just the rest of the enchiladas we had a couple days ago, since cooking for Christmas Day needed to start today.
Cheesecake, eggnog and sauce for the duck breasts all finished and waiting for tomorrow.
Tonight: the leftovers from yesterday’s Boxing Day feast – prime rib roast, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, hunter gravy, broccolini with roasted garlic. Main difference is ordinary house wine instead of the superb stuff we had last night. And of course roast beef is never quite the same when reheated as when fresh out of the oven.
This week I’m trying to clear out the freezer. Tonight looks like potstickers and mixed vegetables with peanut sauce.