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Parmesan crusted halibut. Local halibut season is closed until around March. Usually I can only buy frozen at this time of year. But they have been bringing in fresh Norwegian halibut.

Tonight's pizza. Vegetarian for Matt. I made enough dough for two pizzas but neither Moe or I wanted pizza so we had halibut instead.

That pie and that crust. WOW!!!

I found a hard copy of The Complete Book of Mexican Cooking by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, 1967 on line and ordered it. Even with the exchange and shipping, it is only costing me $13.00 CAD.

I have Patricia Quintana's A Taste of Mexico. Her Filete Al Chipotle is a favourite.

An easy work night dinner. I still had one of the Cornish Game Hens left that I had presalted with two others for Christmas. Since they were so big, I only need to bone out two for Christmas dinner. I made one of Moe's favourites "Fred's Italian Chicken" The last one was air dried in the fridge and then spatchcocked and drizzled with olive oil and seasoned with garlic, lemon, red pepper flakes and fresh rosemary. and roasted last night for dinner. served with Spaghetti Aglio E Olio. My version of a dish we use to order when we lived in Sault Ste. Marie. The owner of the restaurant "Fred" would sing Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin songs to a captive audience.

Yesterday's breakfast - Two ways. A local place on the Island makes these wonderful smoked pork chops that Moe loves fried and served with eggs. I like them to, but I prefer to split them and have as fried "ham" on toast with tomatoes.

I was totally out of bread. Not sure how that happened. So I had to make a batch on Tuesday. The last thing I really wanted to do. Made the dough in the morning and baked late afternoon. Five baguettes and one batard. We weren't having breakfast until later Christmas morning so Moe had a couple of pieces of toast to hold him over.

Great crust and crumb.

I cooked Christmas dinner, but we had it next door at our friends Clif and Barb. Boned out two of the biggest Cornish Game Hens I've ever seen. 1.150 K each. Stuffed with a wild rice stuffing. They were so good, I'm going to go back to the store and buy a few for the freezer. From a farm over on the mainland, near Vancouver. I adapted the stuffing which I usually make with mushrooms and subbed in apricots and figs because Clif is not a fan of mushrooms. Served with a port sauce which went well with the sweeter stuffing. Forgot to take pictures of the roasted birds but did take one at the table. I should have turned the plate around to show the stuffing.

So many wonderful meals. And photos. I was out of bread (how does that happen) so I started a 1000g batch of dough yesterday morning and baked late afternoon. We had our Traditional Christmas Eve dinner - Tourtiere. Moe loves his served with a homemade chili tomato sauce. I still had a bottle left of the sauce I canned last year. I prefer mine with gravy.

@chefmd, your silver dollar pancakes are so cute. Made Moe biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast. Served with scrambled eggs.

Moe's breakfast. Prime rib salad. Apparently he enjoyed it.

I agree @Kim Shook. I might add mashed potatoes to that list too. Moe's breakfast. Mushroom Omelette.

Thanks @IowaDee.

I had planned to roast a small Prime Rib tonight that I pre-salted on Tuesday. But, I wanted to use my new board that we made before I left for work this morning. So..........Moe's Dinner. Antipasto.

Thinking ahead for next week, and my need for gravy to serve with our traditional Christmas Eve Tourtiere, I roasted a small pork roast this morning. Moe had an open faced hot pork sandwich for breakfast and I have leftover gravy for our tourtiere, that I'll freeze for next week.

We DEFINITELY need a WOW button. Tonight's dinner. Actually it could be considered just a late lunch. We missed lunch so I made a roast chicken dinner and we ate at 3:00PM. Chicken was roasted in the CSO.

Breakfast. Toasted English Muffins with Canadian Back Bacon and Tomatoes.

Tonight's dinner. Spaghetti tossed with butter with garlic, hot red pepper flakes, lots of black pepper, and broccoli and finished with butter and garlic toasted breadcrumbs. And grated Parmesan.

Moe loves his breakfast. I don't even care if I have breakfast. Unless of course it is something sweet like a scone or danish. Or dinner. Since I wasn't working today I decided to make a big breakfast before we headed to our workshop. I had planned to grill Moe a steak last night but plans changed so I grilled it for him this morning and he had poached eggs on toasted English Muffins with homemade Hollandaise and I made myself Eggs Benedict. Fried potatoes on the side. We like our eggs cooked differently. Soft and runny for him and on the hard side for me.

Got to change things up occasionally and give him real breakfast food.

Made Moe is favourite pancakes for breakfast this morning. He prefers them thin not thick. And swimming in pure Maple Syrup.

I'm sorry it is so costly here too. Otherwise I would buy it.

@robirdstx, look at that crust. Love all the blisters.