Runs with knives!
After not feeling well last night and most of the day, I started feeling better in the mid-afternoon. Wendy & I went shopping at Jungle Jim’s for ingredients for the 8-course meal we’re preparing for my parents and a couple friends on Sunday and stopped…
Wendy had a beauty treatment tonight after work so I spent the evening taking to the trash the MOUNTAIN of boxes we had accumulated from ordering most of our Christmas presents for everyone from the Internet (that took a while) and working on my preparation timeline for…
This evening, Wendy and I attended the first-ever Junior American Culinary Federation Dinner at Cincinnati State. A group of students in the Federation prepared a very nice meal — Roasted Butternut Squash Soup; Marinated Pear and Gorgonzola Salad with Caramelized Walnuts and Balsamic Vinaigrette;Â Turkey Roulade with Sausage Stuffing; Green Beans Amandine; Duchess Potatoes; Cranberry Chutney; and an English Trifle for dessert.
We attended this event with Chef Lilly, her husband Eric, and Angel and we had a blast, chatting long after the rest of the guests cleared out. Thanks for inviting us, Lilly!
After cooking all day for the dinner we’re hosting tomorrow, Wendy & I met up with Dave for dinner and some last minute shopping (we needed to find plates for the ravioli course and the cheese course and maybe the dessert course, and some more…
As you saw in yesterday’s blog post, here is the menu we served for Christmas Eve. Here, I’ve expanded it to include the wines we served. My mother & father joined us, along with Paul, and Deb, two close friends. After Wendy & I went shopping…
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Wendy & I woke up early to celebrate our Christmas together with the pets. Once done with that, we headed over to Wendy’s family’s home to celebrate with them before being joined in the evening by Wendy’s extended family and my parents to celebrate some more. Dinner was chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, salads, and additional items (which we wolfed down — in the course of our celebrations, we neglected to eat anything substantial, so we were HUNGRY!). Wendy made a beautiful fondant cake for dessert, and it was well-received.
Christmas was very nice this year. The cooperation of the weather made it just that much nicer. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!
After the hectic holidays, Wendy & I snuck to a dark, quiet Chinese restaurant (whose name I do not know — it’s the one near the Outback & Taj Mahal restaurants) for really good carryout-style food. Wendy had Pad Thai, I had General Tao’s Chicken…