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@sartoric, by "So many dishes !!" do you mean you used so many dishes that had to be cleaned afterward, or that the turkey will keep providing you with "so many dishes" until you're tired of it? It all looks delicious, by the way. I haven't cooked a turkey in years, but a neighbor invited me over for a Christmas dinner featuring turkey, and it was done perfectly. She sent me home with leftovers that were also excellent. I may have to rethink the self-imposed turkey ban.

My first thought... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0xULQIaSU

A tip of my hat to the marketing team responsible for that one.

This is being advertised as vegan and gluten free. Very healthy. It's Mongolian Canned Air! The equivalent of $6.62 USD per coke sized can. Bargain!

Yes, there are many types of tea in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, China, including Da Hong Pao, Rougui Tea, Shuixian Tea, Jinjunmei, and Lapsong, etc.

Breakfast today was half la Chinese burrito left over from last night. Breakfast Burrito.

We scored a half price turkey at Aldi. It was tasty and succulent, but I think my turkey roasting days are over. So many dishes !! We made gravy, roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrots, plus garlic green beans on the side.

@Teaeer Rougui tea (Mandarin: 肉桂茶 - ròu guì chá) is indeed a type of Oolong Tea (乌龙茶 -wū lóng chá) grown on the Wuyi Mountains (武夷山 - wǔ yí shān) in China's south-eastern province of Fujian, opposite Taiwan. The name rougui literally means 'cassia bark*', not that the tea contains any cassia, but is so-named because its aroma is perceived by some to be similar.. I'm not sure I agree although it does have a powerful aroma. The tea leaves are roasted up to three times over charcoal. The tea can be briefly be infused seven times to extract the full flavour. Not my favourite - I'm more a green tea type. * Most of the cinnamon sold in the USA is actually cassia.

They found one.

Those sound like ideal neighbors!!

This is a teapot that I like, it has a stainless steel infuser, and I can easily to make a cup of flavor tea. Beautiful, delicate, sturdy and easily clean.

Chile crisp chicken salad sandwich from Samin Nosrat’s Good Things. I took the liberty of making this with tuna instead of chicken but otherwise followed the recipe that starts with a good amount of the Calabrian chile crisp from the book and adds mayo, tahini, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, lemon zest & juice, cilantro, scallions, a pinch of sugar and roasted peanuts. In the header notes, Samin says that whenever she makes this for someone, they invariably ask what on earth it is and proceed to ask for the recipe. It is indeed hard to place but also delicious.

A friend reported that she successfully made quesadillas with her home-made lefse 🙂

Basically the above, "A4 Box Induction", there were not a lot of listings. This was late last year or early this year. Maybe save the search so you'll get alerts. Edit: seems like you've already got the base model, correct? Edit2: a4 website is gone, woah

Tenderloin with port sauce, sprouts, roasted root vegetables

Tried a couple of these at the sample kiosk and liked them. The wrapper was nice and crisp, appropriately cheesy, and the pups inside had a nice balance of fat and salt. Better than junk food, but not quite a real dinner. I think that what I like most about these is their balance.

I ate two, gave the balance to a neighbor

Continuing to use up holiday leftovers. Neighbors order rotisserie chicken, eat the white meat, and donate the rest to us. Mrs. C picked off the dark meat and made stock with the carcass. So tonight's meal used the dark meat chicken, tossed in leftover homemade BBQ sauce. BBQ chicken fried rice with onion, ginger, garlic, chiles, cilantro (leaves and stems), fish sauce, soy sauce, a squeeze of lime, and two eggs. Sliced cucumbers to go with. Shoot, now that I think of it we had some mushrooms that would have gone nicely. Oh well, breakfast.

🤣 As an only child that gets overwhelmed when more than three people are in the room, I would need a lot of wine lol or something stronger

I have no cookie displays to share nor did I perform any epic multi day cooking extravaganzas but I’m posting what little I did. The main spread was with my cousins on Christmas Eve. Turkey, ham and beef tenderloin were the mains. There are always Swedish meatballs and lefse, which I commented on over in the lefse topic. My contributions were roast delicata squash tossed with a sesame-ginger dressing. Quick and easy since I had the dressing already mixed up. And the autumn chicory salad with persimmons, Gorgonzola and pecans with house dressing from Samin Nosrat’s Good Things. I’m posting this photo mostly because it was a quick iPhone snap taken on the kitchen counter, well after dark and I’m ever so jealous of my cousin’s kitchen lighting as it looks nicely lit without me needing to adjust it! I also contributed a huge pan of Anna Banana’s ‘Nanner Pudding that I picked up from ZEF BBQ. No photo as it just looks like a catering pan of whipped cream but it is very good and has become a tradition so I’m now stuck bringing it. To make the ZEF pick-up worthwhile, I treated myself to a pit smoked, Peking-style duck and some nice pastrami to play with here at home. In between dinner and dessert, there was a visit from Santa, who brought a gift for each of the little ones. There was much yelling and squealing going on, even before the sugary stuff was put out. At one point, a high-decibel warning popped up on my Apple Watch advising me that 15 more minutes of this would result in temporary hearing loss! I enjoyed a very quiet Christmas morning here with the cats!

I was going to put this in the Christmas topic but I think this may be better. I’m not Scandinavian at all but my cousins are and meatballs, pickled cabbage, lingonberry jam and lefse were always a part of the Christmas Eve buffet. This year, the cabbage was missing but everything else was there. I think the meatballs needed a good stir at this point. They were also very big. And this plate of store-bought lefse, which were not quite as cloud-like as the fresh ones @Smithy shared above. I have to say this version of a lefse meatball wrap with the pickled red cabbage, shredded green cabbage and a Gjetost cheese sauce sounds pretty good and makes me wish I’d finagled some leftovers to play with, cloud-like or not!

Breakfast at noon: a perfect Royal Riviera pear, the first from my sister's Christmas present to me; and a less-than-perfect-but-still-tasty avocado. First avocado I've had in a few weeks, and that makes it especially welcome. The pear is the real star of the show, though. It's even juicier than it looks in the photo.

So cute!

Panettone French toast for breakfast per David Lebovitz’s recipe. Made with my $6.49 Aldi panettone. Very satisfied.

Soup for snowy days, bean, peas, cabbage, onion, elbow Mac’s, basil, Parmesan, etc. orange pastry cream, candied zest, scrap piece of pastry dough. @JoNorvelleWalker I used one cup of freshly squeezed orange juice for the liquid , along with some strips of orange peel to make half of your vita mix custard/ crème patisserie, microwave method.