[RPMcMurphy]

some asian style buns, with five-spice S&P duck that I threw in a cold pan, rendered on low for a few then blasted to crisp up and flipped for a second....hoisin, cucumber, scalions. A take on the eversopopular Momofuku pork belly buns.

I had everything in the fridge or freezer ....and these duck breasts just suck for anything else. They were left over from the ducks I bought to make confit....from the Asian market and they just dont have any good flavor, and are pretty wimpy.

[amazingrace]

The original plan was to make beef pot pies using last night's left over stew. That plan fell apart when my brother arrived to play dominoes, and I decided it was too much trouble to make the pie dough. So I whipped up a corn bread instead, and I served the warmed over stew on top of the corn bread wedges...just as good, maybe even better than the pot pies. (I beat him 2 out of 3 rounds, by the way, but the game isn't over yet).

[MaryB]

One of those what the heck is in the freezer that is easy nights. I had hamburger patties from the organic beef I buy, some leftover uncooked biscuits (I freeze them on a sheet pan, great for a quick meal). Chicken fried beef patties and pepper milk gravy over biscuits along with a nice romaine salad. Quick and easy and tasty.

[RPMcMurphy]

for breakfast (or rather lunch by the time I awoke...) I took comfort in toasting up some left over dinner rolls, taking that thick sliced prosciutto and frying it up, with an egg and I grated some gruyer over top. RPMcMurphys egg-mcmuffin sliders. I at them pretty might right out of the pan, so no pictures.

Sweezed a few oranges i had that had some cocktail twist divets taken out of them as well.

[chefhow]

Roasted chicken and butternut squash soup with grilled Goat Cheese on Naan sandwiches.

[teamfat]

Breakfast this morning was something different, well, at least for me the last few years. I finally got around to cooking up a small pot of grits. Back in the midwest I usually ate white hominy grits, today I used coarse ground yellow corn meal. Good stuff, and I'm looking forward to frying up some patties out of the leftovers one of the next few mornings.

mjb.

[RPMcMurphy]

Just a mixed green salad with pinapple, apple, cashews and a ginger dressing and a leg of crispy duck confit...

oh...and some different pork buns and dumplings (donchu judge me!)

Manhattan before dinner......diet coke with, and I'll be mixing up something with vermouth in a few (I gotta get rid of this antica formula vermouth somehow!)

[OregonYeti]

I wish to make a formal complaint.

RPMcMurphy makes me hungry with his pics of food and his descriptions. Yeah some is good, but he should only post on days when I have already had delicious food. I have less problem when it's just words. The photos kill me sometimes

[OregonYeti]

I think that no matter what RPM's current occupation is, he could make a great living photographing food.

[RPMcMurphy]

Thanks for the kind word oregon. I cheated yesterday and today and had someone else cook my food for me...and my pictures were from my crappy camera and I didn't wanna "be that guy" so bear with me.....

so, starting yesterday lunch, we went to 11 Madison Park in NYC .
Fiance had winter salad and then a lobster roll (a really really really GOOD lobster roll)

I had agnollotti with suckling pig, followed by a duo of lamb.





we skipped dessert for lunch and had a cocktail instead


then, went to the hotel, took a nap. and went to Pegu for some more cocktails.



after....perhaps ....3 cocktails...(really good cocktails) we hopped in a cab and went to Jean-Georges.....

started out with an amuse of a cumin flavored soup, salmon wrapped around a pear? and a piece of citrus.

then, fiance had....tuna ribbons, I had....beet/goat cheese/pistachio dish
tuna:


mine.


next I had seared Fois with cranberry foam perhaps? she had...halibut? with a consomme? No pictures...

then finished (well kinda finished) with....I had crispy rabbit (spicy and awesome!) she had beef tenderloin with japaneno something or other,
wabbit


hers




then, we "finished" off with some dessert....not sure if you guys know about jean-georges desserts, but...well pastry chef is a genius. They come in petite fours and you order by "topic" winter, apple, caremel, or chocolate was on the menu...I choose chocolate...


fiance choose winter.



then......waiting for the check.....we REALLY finished it off, with some.....marshmellos, macroons and chocolate. (hey, I didn't order it....just came...and well...I'm not going to waste food!)




then we slept.


and we slept.

Until this morning, when we woke! Then went to Momofuku milk bar (bakery) for the ultimate mcmuffin.....homemade english muffins, blackpepper butter, carmelized onions, thick slab of bentons bacon, and a poached deep fried egg.
(and a strawberry milk)

6$ of goodness right there.

fiance had pork buns. (like I've been trying to recreate.....having them at momofuku's, you realize....you just cant)


now we are headed to xmas eve dinner!!!! but not before a bite of some momofuku cookies!

[RPMcMurphy]

SO last night for dinner, we had.....ham turkey, sweedish meatballs, 2 kinds of kielbasa and sauerkraut. Beets, peas&carrots, corn, stuffing, mashed potatoes, candied yams, a huge antipasta salad with salad, and varius salumi, cheese cake.....and some good homemade horseradish..
half of my pictures got deleted (**** kids) but here are some at the end of the meal...im trying to recover what I had on my plate.







oh yeah some potato salad and a few other things (canned cranberry sauce)






just woke up, on to the inlaws for xmas dinner! (stretchy pants on!)

[RPMcMurphy]

recovered last nights lost pictures...

[oldschool1982]

Last night for Christmas Eve, it was just the three of us so we had home-made pizza and watched the new Indiana Jones on DVD. When we were in KC we had a housefull....close to 20 of the DW's side of the family. Just not the same here.

Yet for Christmas dinner , every year that we've been married, we alternate between Lasagne and a roast of some sort. Last year we did standing Rib roast with all the side and glace de viande. This year it's Italian so tonight we are having anti pasti (assortment of marinated mush, artichokes, peppers, olives and tomatoes, hot cappocolla (for you Sopranno fans Gabbagoul. hehehe), pan crisped proscuitto San Danielle I got a deal on because it was the shank end all served with oiled bruscetta crisps). lasagne, meatballs (The DW and DD wanted Buca di Beppo monster size but with my recipe ), sauteed broccoli and cauliflower with olive oil and Pecorino Peppato and bread made from my Grandmothers recipe.

For dessert we have fried bread (Italian thing), croquembouche and a chocolate bourbon pecan pie.

[MaryB]

Last night was turkey with stuffing, ham, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy (stock was from the turkey I made at thanksgiving), 7 layer salad, a jello salad, fruit salad, homemade dinner rolls, 20 kinds of cookies (my friends grand daughter was busy), pumpkin pie, and lemon meringue pie. No pictures because I couldn't keep the carnivores out of the meat even when I was slicing it they are brave to be sticking fingers in a roaster when I am using my 14 inch granton edge slicer!

Tonight is leftovers, cold turkey sandwiches, reheat the stuffing and potatoes, and in general graze on whatever is in the kitchen

[RPMcMurphy]

Tonight, went italian and fiance made some white bean crostini with balsamic, garlic, and some basil (and I'm sure some other things, just don't remember)



I made some orecchiette with hot italian sausage and broccoli rabe.






bottle of 1999 barberesco


also whipped a warm polenta terrine with sausage peppers garlic and mozz (stole the recipe from I think a Batali book) that will chill in the fridge for tomorrow...never made it before, see how it turns out.