Food

[Raza]

I've never had beef Wellington but in theory it sounds utterly delicious. I'd love to try it.

[boatme99]

Made some raspberry orange pancakes this morning

[CanadianStraps]

Friend cooked dinner - I was expecting vegan fajitas or something (both the girls are veggie - I mostly am these days). Got an incredible individual beef Wellington! Haven't had cow I'm weeks - was delicious. Attachment 81720Attachment 81721

Had friends for dinner last night and made a prime rib (3 bones, a real biggun). It was glorious. I made duck fat russets too, something else I haven't had in a long time. I'm far from a vegetarian but I hadn't eaten been in drinks and that was absolutely the best way to get back into it.

The bones are squirreled away out of sign in the fridge for a private late night snack at some point in the next few days.

[Henry Krinkle]

Butter and harissa roasted cod loin over buttermilk braised spinach and polenta. D-lish.

[geoffbot]

Butter and harissa roasted cod loin over buttermilk braised spinach and polenta. D-lish.

D-lish indeed!

[litlmn]

Annual Tradition. Go get the Donuts Christmas Eve morning before they sell out (usually around 10-11).

[Henry Krinkle]

A fairly recent Christmas Eve tradition here is a super tasty meal that we don't normally eat alongside a nice bottle of wine. This year- PEI mussels with homemade pancetta in a spicy cream broth with a really lovely BC chard/ pinot blanc/ reisling.

[geoffbot]

The food in Sydney is just sublime

[Henry Krinkle]

Mrs. K and I don't go out on New Year's Eve. Instead we go out a couple of days early and enjoy a meal at one of our favourite restaurants on an evening that is less frantic. Last night we went to what in my opinion is the best restaurant in the city. Almost every item is locally raised, foraged or grown. The basement of this restaurant, which is quite large, is a year round garden. The restaurant itself is an old Chinese restaurant which, excluding the kitchen, has not been modernized.

This is one of three rooms. Note the Chinese lanterns and the bamboo tiki bar. They also still use the same dishes.





The meal. Apologies for the poor picture quality.Zebra tomato gazpacho.With this course and the salad we drank a blanc de blanc.



Chicory, radicchio and pear salad.



Bison tartare, with a very crisp organic orange wine from the Niagara region.



Gnocchi, mushrooms and butternut squash on a mushroom cream.Rosé from British Columbia.



Sorry, started eating the duck, beluga lentils and parsnip puree... Oregon pinot noir.



Mrs. K had a lemon curd and haskap dessert with some kind of white fortified wine that reminded me of Tokajy.



I had gorgonzola, honey and frozen grapes with a Taylor Fladgate LBV.



We both rounded out the evening with some 30 year old sherry and then home for a whiskey nightcap.

[geoffbot]

So good