What’s for Dinner Tonight?


Had some ingredients leftover from “last year” that I wanted to use to make a Christmas Day soup but different marching orders left them unused. So tonight will be just DGD and me and I’m making what I want: chestnut and celeriac soup with a dozen Wellfleet oysters and mignonette sauce on the side.
For dessert we’ll share a lemon curd bar from The Cake Bake Shop.
 
The last day for cooking for more than one.

DGD returns to school tonight and asked me to make food for the Lunar New Year to take with her. Anticipated the request so already made dumplings and shu mai just need to pull em out of the freezer.
Making braised pork belly as I type and it should be at least cooled by the time she leaves for the airport. Giving her most of the measured ingredients for scallion pancakes and the recipe so she can make them herself. Also the recipe for soy chicken as one of the easiest dishes to make; she can buy the ingredients at a local French- Asian market.
She should be fine making veggie fried rice or mei fun on her own but “Noonie” is just a WhatsApp away if needed. Sometimes modern technology really is our friend.

We’ll have some hot and sour soup together before her journey begins and I’ll call that dinner.
 
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Decided to make tomato/basil/orzo soup today for the first time. Some of us paired it with grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches on a hearty bread and others had the spinach bread that my son has been requesting for a while. He had some at a restaurant and wanted me to try to replicate it. I’d love to know what he thinks, but he went to a friend’s house as they’re heading back to college tomorrow! 🤦‍♀️
 
I am still not feeling well. My dad dropped off chicken noodle soup from the Chinese takeout place that pulls their own noodles. Yum!

He was looking for an excuse to come over to see the remodel and my mom kept telling him to leave me alone so I could rest. That must have been an ‘acceptable’ reason to my mom lol He was shocked how much they got done in two days. (They didn’t work over the holidays).
 














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