Tom Yum Goong slightly modified with added noodles and spinach.
Homemade pan fried pork gyoza.
Going to try out the new commercial range extractor hood that I spent days installing. What a bunch of work.

Because it is the lunar new year & I had most of the stuff, I decided to make a big bowl of Chinese chicken salad. Lettuce, chicken, cilantro, green onions, slivered almonds, chow mein noodles.

CNY Reunion Dinner
 

A bit behind .. Lunar / CNY Eve dinner
Sorry , not sure why some of the photos are wrong way round .

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Vegetarian yusheng with added fried fish skin
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Vegetarian yusheng before adding the crackers , fried fish skin and abalone mushrooms
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Chawanmushi with shiitake mushrooms , prawns , etc
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2 types of satay babi , special fried leek & tau kwa , chap chye , Samy ‘ s fish cutlet , nasi lemak with pandan & bunga terlang , chawanmushi in cup
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One of the home cooked satay babi & special fried leek & tau kwa ( bean curd fried version ) by my sisters - in - laws

my spouse changed their mind from the Front Porch fried chicken & southern dessert, and we ordered carryout Chinese at a place I’ve enjoyed since 1995. I know it’s lunar but i didn’t expect such a huge carryout queue. That said, everything was utterly delicious and I’m glad to be back home after waiting for 30 minutes in 50-degree weather. $88 plus 20% tip.
Veggie moo shoo with 2 extra pancakes
Crab Rangoon
won ton soup large
Eric’s cakes with peanut sauce


Kung pao chicken
Mapo bean curd
Spicy Smoked Pork


2 / white rice

both bourbon pecan pie and mandarin cheesecake sounded great. Nobody here is a Big stranger to me. I appreciate guidance and endorsements. We all eat really well here.

Zahav cookbook's chicken albondigas. Fast, easy, and good.

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Culver’s double butter burger deluxe

Butter burger? Looks like beef to me.

The mixture on top isn't strictly traditional, but it's what I stuffed the rump involtini with and it was nice because the parsley and lemon zest cut through some of the fat. I think Nonna Maria (my Campanian cousins' grandmother who taught me this beautiful recipe) would be proud of my effort, even if she might not agree with the stuffing as a garnish.

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My wife texted me in the early afternoon that she picked up the Filipino Spaghetti for me for dinner. I skipped lunch, just had a few nuts and juice to take my medicine and enjoyed my dinner.

So being in a cosmopolitan city , we had sausages , grilled pork belly , etc , .. this steak - NZ Angus grass fed - was my main with mash prepared by a grandniece .
Soup was bit of yong tau foo ( different types of bean curds / “ skin “ stuffed with fish cake ) . We also had the CNY requisite yusheng - which is basically a salad with different sauces ( like plum sauce ) , sesame seeds & crushed peanuts . This version had orange , etc peel , pomelo and abalone .

Dessert ( s ) were devil ‘ s chocolate cake , dark chocolate & pistachio ice creams ..

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My Angus steak

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Home prepared abalone yusheng by niece ‘ s mil , super fresh & yummy 😋

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Devil ‘ s chocolate cake

Sandwich of my child’s uneaten KS meatballs, Trader Joe’s crushed Calabrian chilies in a jar, arugula, and prosciutto.
some chocolate - I received a box today


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Zahav cookbook's twice-cooked eggplant. It's not every recipe that encourages you to intentionally burn something. Tasty.

Had the new next door neighbour over for a few beers that turned into dinner. Lovely guy who has just moved in with his young daughter. I was told that leftovers was no way to greet someone into the village, so I bunged on a few snags and lamb cutlets and the better half made salad and some sort of potato thing.

Is it a bad thing when you live alone & your dinner takes 3 plates?.I have leftovers .
Roasted potatoes with herbs de provence
Asparagus with hollandaise which was way too thin because my butter exploded in the microwave so I didn't have enough. What a mess.
Grilled rib eye with garlic, thyme butter.
St Francis Cabernet ....Sonoma County,California
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