Posted on 12/24/2011 12:03:05 PM PST by traderrob6
To keep wolves from carrying away animals, mention wolves while eating.
Not sure what they are exactly but they look dang good!
Jumbo Stone Crab claws and they’re wonderful.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I had stone crabs with Nancy’s mustard for Thanksgiving. $22 a pound.... :0(
I remember my first Christmas without Mom in 2006. We always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve at her house and on Christmas Day I would take hubby and the kids over to her house for leftovers as Christmas Day was just for relaxing and visiting. Since that first Christmas without Mom we did the family thing at my sister's house, I didn't plan for Christmas Day and I literally had no food in the house to prepare b/c I hadn't been food shopping (too busy with baking, etc.) prior to Christmas. It was a rude awakening.
I sell the crabbers bait so every year I get 10 lbs gratis ;>.
I have a Mexican-American friend and they always have Christmas eve tamales. My wife’s family always makes home-made pizza. Our family always had dungeness crab.
“Our family always had dungeness crab.”
Also VERY goooood.
She gave my Wife the recipe about six months before she passed away back in 2001. My Wife does a great job, but we always joke that there is a little something missing in the sauce. Since my Mother was a smoker, my Wife guessed that it was missing some cigarette ash. LOL
Saw an old Everybody Loves Raymond episode where the M-I-L gave Ray's Wife one of her recipes, but she purposely left out one key ingredient. Cracked me up...
Place octopus and large onion in a pot of boiling water. when you can easily stick a fork through the onion, the octopus is cooked [the onion acts as a timer].
Pour octopus/onion/water into colander. Run cold water over octopus, removing skin. Cut octopus into 2” pieces, discarding head[s].
In large frying pan, heat good olive oil. Add chopped garlic to taste. Saute garlic. Stir fry octopus for a few minutes. Add paprika, fresh ground black pepper and salt to taste. Serve as is, or over rice.
Tonight tamales ,refried beans and rice. Tomorrow Ham and all the fixins.
Any chance of getting the recipe for that Lasagna?
*jealous*
Tamales and rellenos??!! Can I join you for dinner? Please? I LOVE tamales. Sadly, there are none for hundreds of miles around here and I get all anxious when I think of making them. Even though I have everything to do it, still can’t make that step.
Feliz Navidas!!!
Making the family recipe for cornbread dressing (not “stuffing”) and a tex mex spinach enchilada recipe.
Seven fishes for us on Christmas Eve:
Crostini with cream cheese and spicy vodka spread, topped with wild Alaskan smoked salmon and caviar
Shrimp cocktail
Lobster bisque
Maryland crab cakes and side salad
Seared sea scallops and angel hair pasta
Fried batter-dipped calamari
Baked haddock filets with asparagus and hollandaise sauce
Chocolate mousse
- all prepared by my wife with me as sou chef/dishwasher
On Christmas Day we switch roles for:
Roast duck
Slovak-style lokše (potato pancakes)
Brussels sprouts
Roasted potatoes
Red cabbage
Cranberry sauce
Molten chocolate lava cakes
“That’s what we have. Oyster stew and rice pudding for dessert.
Sounds like you married a really really good woman. Solid. And then ruined her. (teehee)”
Well the rice and raisins I’d never stomach but perhaps the Oyster stew aversion was in her preparation.
She IS a really really good women of Norwegion blood as 25 years of marriage will attest but cooking has never been her forte’.
Merry Christmas!
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