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Boxing Day dinner with the in laws.
Prime Rib, twice baked potatoes, brussels with bacon, mushrooms.
The usual fixins.

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A Christmas Day leftover gumbo type dealey - leftover smoked chicken and turkey, stock made from the carcasses, roux made from bacon fat (from homemade bacon), some chorizo from a local market, onions, sweet pepper, celery... Usual deal. Smells pretty good!
 
I got a good haul of cookbooks for Christmas and after too many days with the in-laws I'm ready to use them. I asked the bride to flip through Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi and mark a few recipes that looked good. This is what she came up with:




She wanted creamy corn polenta with eggplant sauce, so I turned this



into this (with a chicken sausage and some wine for good measure)
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The eggplant was awesome. Couldn't taste the feta under the corn, and I wasn't impressed with the soft polenta consistency. I think it would be just as good with regular polenta. The bride was happy (and I'll eat anything) so this one gets the blue star to do again.
 

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Inevitable at this time of year. Turkey soup.

2 finely chopped green onions
1 diced carrot
2 tbsp olive oil

Cook carrots and green onions in olive oil to soften. Then add:
1 box chicken broth
2 cups of water
1 cup or so pasta of your choice
1/4 tsp white pepper or to taste
1/8 tsp cayanne
1 tbsp dried parsley
shake or two poultry spice
3 cups chopped turkey left overs

bring to a boil and then simmer until pasta is done (about 20 minutes). I thickened it a bit with corn starch. I could have made a roux with the oil or butter and 1/4 cup of flour in the first part and then used half and half or milk instead of the two cups of water.

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Big breakfast for a big day ahead:
  • Scrambled eggs
  • Open faced ham sammie
  • Farmer's market sweet hots. Do pickles count as a vegetable?

 
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Cote de beouf, potatoes roasted in duck fat and Vichy carrots... For two. Got enough beouf left for sandwiches tomorrow (but only just!)
 
That looks like meat heaven, I think I hear singing and see a aura around it lol.

I think you were right, I am sure I heard singing as well. With all due modesty I have to say it was bloody good. I should have poured the meat juices from the pan before I took the picture, just too greedy to dig into it!!
 
Coq Au Vin.

Great excuse to break out the new 14" De Buyer Mineral Fry Pan I just got this week. Love being able to brown an entire cut up chicken at the same time in one pan!

Just saw that there was a 2013 thread that has been started. Oops!
 
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Cinnamon rolls and cinnamon sticky buns.

I managed to go overboard on the icing, I'm pretty sure no one will complain.

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