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Had my mom’s cousins over last night since we won’t see them for Christmas. Made a charcuterie board, marinated olives, potato and Gruyère tart and mini mushroom tartlets.

Yes it is 😋. My mother gets violent if you say add sugar to cornbread 🤣. I sneak in about a tablespoon or so just to balance it. I don’t like it sweet either, and most Southerners cringe at the mention of adding sugar.

Pizza, pizza. Pepperoni, castelvetrano olives, Vidalia onion and a Margherita.

Kenji’s Chile Verde, Trader Joe’s Spanish rice and slaw. I had made the base from my Hatch Chiles and froze it, along with a pork butt, So it was a much faster process than from scratch. Tasty as usual.

Yeah. I never knew of them until we moved to California. The house we lived in had three trees. Both my mom and her cousin planted them when they bought houses. I was on a mission to get a couple of trees when we got back to Georgia. I’ve been surprised they have done well. They will be put back in the garage once it gets colder.

Pizza-Pepperoni, Vidalia onion and castlevetrano olives, and Mortadella (on half), red onion, Parm, fontina, pistachios and garlic. I used Ooni's poolish dough this time. It was surprisingly easy to work with even though it said it was 100% hydration. Nice and chewy too.

My meyer lemon trees did pretty good this year. Looks like we'll have a dozen or so lemons from both of them. It's been warm so far with only one cold spell. I think they should be ripe before the next one.

Found some Lion’s Mane mushrooms at Dekalb Farmer’s Market. Seared with a pan sauce, sous vide polenta and broccolini. Looked like pork loin when I was slicing them.

Vegetarian "crab" cakes. Used shredded hearts of palm. Good sub for crab, they were tasty. Hard to get dungeness in Georgia, and not a big fan of other types. Served with a lemony aioli.

Rose, White Chocolate and Pistachio shortbread for my cousins wedding.

Fish tacos are one of my favorite things. Made these with cod, and used Kenji’s Serious Eats recipe for the batter. Really good. Made a spicy slaw and chipotle lime mayo. My mom had regular beef tacos since no fish for her . And Trader Joe’s Mexican rice on the side.

Had way too many Campari tomatoes. Made a roasted tomato pesto with bucatini. Added a spoon of ricotta and some sautéed zucchini.

Detroit style pizza. Pepperoni, red onion, pesto.

Yeah, no heat though

Was craving Greek spaghetti. Cleaned out some cherry tomatoes, with kalamata, capers, garlic, feta and parsley.