Dinner 2025

[sartoric]

I’m behind, it’s already Boxing Day in Oz. Christmas Eve dinner was garlic lobster tails with roast potato and caramelised onion salad, plus a warm green veg salad. Blue hydrangeas from the garden. 

 

Then, on Christmas Day after the mandatory mango margarita, we had duck leg confit with roasted carrots on garlic whipped yogurt with leftover potato salad. I was hangry and didn’t take care with the pic. Sorry. Also on this plate some Davidson plum jam (an Australian bush tucker food). 

[Neely]

 

We had a traditional Christmas lunch with all the usual suspects plus a large rocket, beetroot, goats cheese and walnut salad. There’s also ham, gravy in the jug and cranberry sauce.

 

We are now into Boxing Day 26th and I must say that the left over salad went better with the cold turkey and left over stuffing this next day. The drink is the Italian Chinotto below. 

 

 

 

[Okanagancook]

Sorry no pictures as i am not in tune with using my phone camera to do that.

but we had an artisan smoked ham that my brother Ian brought from his pork stash from a purchase of half a pig.  We cooked it slowly while i made scalloped potatoes ,broccoli in lemon and butter along with some sauteed mushrooms . We glazed the ham with a mixture of rum, maple syrup, grainy mustard and  marmalade.

the ham was so juicy and not at all salty.  Cooked to 150F internal temp.  Delicious.

 

while taking the ham platter back to the kitchen my accident prone brother managed leave a trail of ham juice from the table all the way back to the kitchen and down the front of his shirt and pants……the dog was happy.

 

everyone’s meals look very accomplished .

 

merry Christmas.

Edited yesterday at 04:03 AM by Okanagancook (log)

[Dante]

Yuletide dinner: Slow cooked ham, slow-sauteed carrots, roasted potatoes, and roasted koginut squash.

[liuzhou]

Not the prettiest dish in the Chinese canon, I agree. However, it does taste good.

 

Scrambled eggs with prawns, chives and kelp. Served with rice.

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 11:32 AM by liuzhou (log)

[sartoric]

Back to things in bowls here. A little leftover duck, thick noodles, lots of green veggies, herbs and chicken broth. The bean sprouts countdown is on.

 

[Smithy]

Green salad and what I may as well call potato fritters.

 

 

The fritters are the real victory, of the snatch-the-bacon-from-the-fire variety. Sometime a week or two ago I made a huge batch of mashed potatoes with greens, cream, garlic, and possible some cheese, from some of the Russet potatoes I received back in October. This mashed potato dish was intended to mimic something wonderful I'd eaten last July in Kenya, but it failed miserably. I've been pecking away at it  despondently, wondering whether I could salvage it or should simply give it to the local wildlife.

 

Sometime ago I rediscovered my darling's "Fry Baby" from a hidey hole atop a shelf in the hall closet. He used it a lot before we were married. We haven't used it much since then, but hadn't given it away. Hmm. Maybe I could put it to good use.

 

I did. I made little balls of the mashed potato mix, rolled them in a mix of Italian-seasoned bread crumbs and corn flake crumbs, and fried them. Success!

 

 

Is it worth writing down and trying to reproduce what I did? No. But I'll be able to use the rest of those potatoes, and the Fry Baby.

[sartoric]

3 hours ago, Smithy said:

Green salad and what I may as well call potato fritters.

 

 

The fritters are the real victory, of the snatch-the-bacon-from-the-fire variety. Sometime a week or two ago I made a huge batch of mashed potatoes with greens, cream, garlic, and possible some cheese, from some of the Russet potatoes I received back in October. This mashed potato dish was intended to mimic something wonderful I'd eaten last July in Kenya, but it failed miserably. I've been pecking away at it  despondently, wondering whether I could salvage it or should simply give it to the local wildlife.

 

Sometime ago I rediscovered my darling's "Fry Baby" from a hidey hole atop a shelf in the hall closet. He used it a lot before we were married. We haven't used it much since then, but hadn't given it away. Hmm. Maybe I could put it to good use.

 

I did. I made little balls of the mashed potato mix, rolled them in a mix of Italian-seasoned bread crumbs and corn flake crumbs, and fried them. Success!

 

 

Is it worth writing down and trying to reproduce what I did? No. But I'll be able to use the rest of those potatoes, and the Fry Baby.

I’m guessing Fry Baby is a deep fryer, either stove top or electric?? 
Nice save !

[Smithy]

41 minutes ago, sartoric said:

I’m guessing Fry Baby is a deep fryer, either stove top or electric?? 
Nice save !

 

Yes, thanks! It's a small electric deep fryer, with no temperature adjustment. I'll post photos. I'm rather embarrassed to admit that it's fitting the bill for this purpose. We had set it aside for our cooking and health purposes, and forgotten its existence. 

[patti]

No pics of Christmas Eve dinner (gumbo) or Christmas Day lunch, but last night was finally a relaxed meal, and it was meatballs (frozen Costco) and baked ricotta, and air fryer roasted broccoli.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ann_T]

 

We wanted something simple for dinner last night so I made a quick tomato, garlic, basil

sauce with Kalamata olives and grilled Italian sausages.