I’ve been dreaming of this since last year - the egg and smoked mozzarella pizza from Pizzeria Brown Blossom in Kyoto - the chef is a maestro in my eyes



Dark chocolate and ginger cookie from Ben’s Cookies for dessert

early pre-supper:

French (sweet) baguette from noe valley bakery
Assd slices of salami
butter

I hope that this goes very well for you!

Spiazzo, sf:

mixed salad
rigatoni cinghiale (wild boar ragu)

Pizzeria Brown Blossom and Ben’s Cookies again - though, this time, I had the triple chocolate - headed back in to the Ritz as it was raining to play some Zelda (guess I can explore the Japanese countryside that way) ;-)

Chicken, Kale and fries from Milestones.

Frozen pizza. It wasn't horrible.

Pre-supper leftover pizza

dragon well, sf:
won ton noodle soup
crab rangoon

fried rice
mongolian beef
kung pao chicken


Which brand?

Safeway rising crust. I was feeling particularly cheap so gave it a try and was pleasantly surprised.

I've tried many frozen pizza as of late... sadly they didn't pass the test. And in many of them, you couldn't even save it by adding ingredients.

I wanted pasta, but all I had handy was cod. Did some Googling and decided to take a jar of marinara sauce and add fish stock. I added spinach in lieu of making a salad.

I experimented with making the pasta in the sauce which used up a ton of fish stock. But the sauce was very flavorful at least.

Christmas meal update:
When asked about sides, my brother and sister-in-law were passive-aggressive in telling me they don't care, but just have the vegetables which the kids like (corn for one, peas for the other). They also asked what to bring and I will tell them nothing partly due to their Thanksgiving actions and how spare that meal was.

Sounds like a lovely Xmas dinner with you punishing them for Thanksgiving.

Smoked mozzarella pizza from Cascorosso, Hiroshima - aggravating as many seats were free, but it was “all reserved” - would have taken me 5 minutes to eat the pizza while it was hot

Tamales estilo Veracruzano para todos. Just like the baby jesus ordered for dinner two thousand+ years ago.

They're going on a seven day Carnival cruise on the 28th and I have no keep their cocker spaniel for two weeks. Their punishment is that while in this house the dog hangs around me and not them because at his home, none of those four walk him. They just open their patio so he'll do his business in their miniscule backyard. Here he gets walked and gets to eat wet food mixed with his kibble so he actually eats. He knows when they hit the driveway someone actually cares for him, and I have never owned a dog. But since 2001, I seem to take care of other people's pets over Christmas as I worked at universities and rarely went home. For two weeks, I will be lucky to get $60 from them as they think I'm a free kennel.

Back to food, the rib marinade was soy, red wine vinegar, garlic and onion. I made the pesto chicken lasagna tonight to bake tomorrow, but I forgot to add riced cauliflower to the ricotta mix.