All that aside, the desire to hibernate has overtaken me & most of my kitchen related activity has been sparse & half-baked. I'm even drinking my coffee black now cuz' I just can't be bothered with all the extra add-on's. It's fantastic really.
Does that mean I'm packing up shop & moving on to elementary knitting? Hardly! I swear if you give me a partridge & a pear tree (or either, as you see fit) I'll spring to life again & scheme a mighty scheme to make wine poached pears & lemon, laurel & rosemary stuffed partridge baked in a parmasean bread dough crust. See.....it don't take much, I'm inspired already!
So, here are some more December pictures, in case you're bored tonight. Ciao for now! Gimmie a shout, all you silent foodie fans....I know you're hungry. Come by & bring something to add to dinner. Till then, observe more of my DECEMBER:
I spent Christmas dinner recooping. NEXT YEAR--- Elaina & Chala make dinner. So let it be written......
Turkey & potato fritatta with micro-arugula & feta salad. (3nd best thing about Christmas left overs)
2nd best thing about Christmas left overs: massive amounts of left over whip cream to slather on pretty much everything you come in contact with. In this case Tripple berry galette.
1st place for Christmas left over bonus. Chilli Turkey & bean soup with garlic toast fried crisp with turkey drippings for dipping.
Awww......one more shot of the turkey, if you please. If you make this for me, we may end up with a case of elopement, go ahead I dare you.
Cute turkey sanwich in potato buscuit, not a bad little lunchie-munchie. Kids love it.
about 4 gallons of brine for 2 turkeys for my pals at Noda. Cooked one in a convection oven & one in my electric oven. If you can believe it, the one in the electric was the winner of the night as far as being succlently juicy. 
Cracked & hauled all the kids to a breakfast buffet at Coco's. (if you didn't know already, I'm really not a fan of "tabehodais" at all)
yeeeeeaah, see?
But I have to hand it to them, the crossants were fresh, flakey & buttery.
My sweetest 4 year old, gave me a wonderful break when she declared for her birthday "You know Mom, you don't have to decorate my cake with a picture, as long as it's a strawberry shortcake, it's OK" That was so great, that I'm not even slightly ashamed to say this was my very first "typical Japanese" strawberry shortcake. I could barely eat one small piece. Good God! Sorry, this is NOT the cake for me.
Not the best pic, but I totally "winged it" for Mr. McNair's birthday. He wanted a "cream-based" pie. So I made this: "White chocolate, egg-nog spiked pie, with whipped cream & caramel sauce"I was pretty tickled with the result. The white choco doubled the creaminess of an already lush custard pie with both fresh vanilla beans & freshly grated nutmeg & cloves, the alcohol was brandy & rum, wanted to give it enough of a taste.
That's it for pics, ppl. HUGS & LOVE, eat hearty!
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5 comments:
at is a 'typical Japanese' SSC cake?
For some reason I've been itching to make a strawberry shortcake, just looking for a reason.
Its comforting to see you exhausted (how catty is that). But you make the rest of us feel inadicuate you of the 6? kids and still looking like a teenager.
Have you seen octomum's figure lately, sheesh, talk about making the rest of us look bad. Pops oput 8 kids and is back to a 'scarlett esque' figure.
Hope you get sone R&R soon.
Good luck,
yeah I second the teenager bit. you're seriously super, even enough time to put makeup on! that turkey with the toast looks soooo good. And the salad looks even better.
can't believe you made 2 extra turkeys outside of your own dinner...craaaazy.
get some good rest!
Yeah, Al! Thanks for those turkeys, on top of your other superwomanly Christmas affairs. YUMM!
Tx Lisa. I do done the robe of exhaustion & hidiousness frequently, just to lazy to photograph it. :)
Mark looks like he just decided this year, instead of blowing out the candle, he'll bite it off, haha!
The salad looks delightful & I can almost taste the soup, mmmm-m!
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