Category: Seasonal Cooking

Resolution #1 -- post more. So, here we go. This was our stay at home, New Year's Eve meal. Yep, instead of going out, we opted to stay in and eat a lot of beef. Mmmmm... I've wanted to make beef wellingtons for quite a while and finally, the time was right. Oh, was it …

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Here's a holiday side dish that we had on Christmas. It has all the things that make a holiday meal great -- fatty, delicious, forbidden pork products, heavy cream and cheese. But, you know, it'll still work after the holidays. It's just a bit harder to justify...maybe if you only have a small taste. Yeah. …

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My mom came to visit us and we had a very nice holiday. We ate a little fruitcake and a lot of pix and today, I knocked the leftover Shazam! over and broke it. That's okay -- it's still tasty! Here's a picture of the holiday table featuring -- Cornish Game Hens, Stuffing, Roasted Vegetables, …

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We got our tree up this weekend and celebrated in the usual way -- lox, bagels, veggies, dip and champagne. We decorated in between bites of bagels and assorted snacks. A very nice evening! We also had a really tasty salad recently. It consisted of spinach, halved cherry tomatoes, mint, goat cheese and toasted pine …

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Just a bit lazy. Look at my ring! I need to get some actual food posts up but in the meantime, check out these cute little robots I made for wedding-related-stuff. jwa likes the robots... groom-robot bride-robot Food-wise I am trying to finalize the Christmas Dinner plan. So far it's -- Roasted Cornish game hens …

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