Oven-baked chicken wings and rice pilaf. And yes, everything was absolutely out of a box because I'm lazy AF after all my cooking on Thanksgiving. And the Christmas parties are around the corner. Double barbeque duty for me inbound!
Christmas dinner. Wish I had someone to share it with, but c'est la vie. Bottom round beef roast marinaded in Cabernet Sauvignon and broth, with mashed potatoes with a marinade reduction for gravy, Brussels sprouts, carrots cooked down in honey and cloves, cranberry sauce made with fresh-squeezed orange juice, and Manzanilla olives. Dessert will be chocolate and whipped cream Yule log. Started out with a glass of the wine I used for the marinade, but it tasted like dirt. Opened a bottle of a friend's homemade 4-grape wine instead.
For Christmas dinner, we had pounded elk steak, baked potatoes, fruit salad, and pecan pie for desert. We'd have had more pecan pie if the 7 month old 70 pound puppy hadn't stood on his hind legs to eat a quarter of the pie and a third a stick of butter that were on the countertop. When he stands on his hind legs, he's less than a head shorter than me, and I'm not a petite person. We think he might turn out to be a large dog.
My husband is making green chili while I shout instructions to him from my comfy chair in the living room. It has been a long day following a very long day and night, and the last thing I want to do is spend an hour deseeding and chopping green chilis. Oh, wait. Never mind. He has decided to make portobello mushroom and pork spaghetti with no damn red sauce: garlic, butter, and olive oil only. My love. I think I'll keep him.
There's a dish in Turkey called kumpir. Basically it's the world's most stuffed baked potato. Sold at street stands, they have jumbo baked potatoes ready to go and piles and piles of different things they'll mix into your order. Default is butter, salt, and cheese, but there's couscous, corn, olives, beans, little bits of meat, whatever you want. One of those things is lunch for two people:
I think this qualifies as cooking. We went to a local Chinese restaurant and had "hot pot," in which we dropped various meats and vegetables into a pot of boiling broth. Very good and I hardly hurt myself.
Here that's called nabe if you leave the stuff in for a while or shabu shabu if you just swish thin slices back and forth quickly and eat them immediately. We had nabe last night and are, according to Mrs. A, having it again tonight on account of her eyes being bigger than her stomach at the supermarket
Green chili is on the menu tonight. I bought peppers last week and haven't had a chance to prepare them before today. Green chili tonight will be my reward for getting my taxes together this afternoon.
Out for a curry tonight as we have a cousin visiting from Florida. I’ll be having a lamb Ameri Murgh, which is mango pulp and cream (I don’t do hot curries).
I got a sausage casoulet in the slow cooker waiting for Mrs Moose to get home. I went with a slow cook because her time of arrival is somewhat uncertain
