Pizza on the grill with sweet Italian sausage and fresh mozzarella. It wasn't pretty but was delicious.

We didn't feel like a regular meal tonight. I am wrapping presents and completing two gifts that I am making (at their request), for two pf my friends. I make ornament wreaths using mostly vintage ornaments from the 50s and 60s. I love doing it, but it is time intensive - especially at this time of year. So, we went out to get a variety of our favorite cheeses, gjetost, ( a sweet and unusual Norwegian cheese that is an acquired taste for some) a few German cheeses including butter Kasse, Bavarian blue, and limburger. Pickled herring with wine sauce, pickles, pickled brussels sprouts, carrots, celery, pickled beets, sliced red onion, and an assortment of breads pumpernickel, rye, and crackers. Sliced apples and pears, and grapes. Having a local lager with this.
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Aidell�s chicken apple sausages
Neeps & Tatties (mashed turnips & potatoes)
Turnip greens

Getting take out from our favorite nearby (ie, not a Rick Bayless restaurant) Mexican spot. Coincidentally the owners have been doing a gut rehab on the house at the opposite end of the block (from our house), so maybe Mr. CE can check on their move in date while picking up.

Pollo sopes
Guacamole
Tortilla soup(Mr. CE is getting some beef dish.)

Last night's pizza leftovers. I think it is best to reheat on the grill but it is pouring out so I did it in a pan on the stove. Then topped with pepperoncini and honey.

Hot smoked wild sockeye salmon, rice pilaf, green beans.

In past years, our Christmas Eve tradition was a cold buffet with bread, rolls, cold cuts, sliced cheese and salads. We’ve gotten too few to put out that much food so I bought a tray of pre made Cuban sandwiches from Publix along with cole slaw and macaroni salad.

will your FIL join? Happy holidays !!!

Same to you.

We included my father in law tonight (Cuban sandwiches) and tomorrow night for dinner (roast pork loin stuffed with garlic and rosemary). After dinner tomorrow we will family zoom with 3 out of 4 kids. Sadly my daughter and her family weren�t available when everyone else was. But we will be getting together with them in Alabama in a few days.

On Christmas we're Christian but on Christmas Eve we're Jewish so we're currently awaiting Chinese food delivery. At some point tonight there will also be a movie!

I can't remember the entire order but it includes twice cooked pork, dumplings, fried rice, cumin lamb and mu shu chicken.

Dinner tonight was to be a Christmas ham with a bunch of sides, but after an unexpectedly large seafood lunch, no one felt like cooking, let alone eating much, so we had a carryout pizza with salad instead.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Dungeness crab fresh off the dock, steamed jumbo artichokes, crusty round-loaf homemade bread.

You win!

We went to a local Italian restaurant for a Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner. Started out with White Fig cosmos. Then baccala fritters for the table. I had:


Swordfish spiedini - stuffed with currants, pine nuts, herbed bread, provolone and lemon samoriglio, with roasted potatoes, cauliflower and asparagus. Delish!

What restaurant?