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the easiest way to get my attention is to talk about food. :D

i'm looking at savenor's holiday menu and drooling. dessert-wise, i'll probably go with rolling my own, although the chocolate grand marnier mousse bombe sounds heavenly, but i have been reminded in the last week by my pears rioja that i can handle making anything that has sugar in it. :)

somehow, we went the entire thanksgiving without eating any cranberries or cranberry sauce. this will, of course, not be true of christmas, though i'll probably be a christmas orphan this year. i love cranberry sauce so much, i eat it straight out of the can, practically. :) "would you like some mashed potatoes to go with your cranberry sauce?" though i really like the homemade version i did last year, the one with asian pears and ginger. and it's easy to make! i will probably do that for christmas, then i just need to figure out what else to eat it with.

but really, with andrew here, this whole long weekend has been a time to give thanks, and a time to eat well.

--braised pheasant with polenta
--garlic mashed potatoes
--pears rioja (ooh, flambee!)
--sushi from bluefin, i dragged him up to porter and my old neighborhood (and i needed to go to kotobukiya anyway)
--caramelized salmon with ginger
--way too much ice cream
--and last, but not least, dali. lots of seafood (mussels, scallops in saffron cream), lots of game (rabbit, wild boar, venison sausage in pomegranate sauce which i *must* get the recipe for), and one of my favorite desserts: floating island. mmm. :) but the real revelation was these amazing fried goat cheese balls with honey and caramelized onions! oh my gosh. if frying things didn't scare me i'd have to learn how to make these at home.

we took pictures, of course, though we waited till the last minute to do that again. one of these days, we will have pictures of us that aren't in an airport. really! (and one of these days, i will remember, backlighting is not of the good. meh.)

i've forgotten how to answer anything on the support board. eeps. that's what snuggling with your boy and playing too much ffx will do to you.

( whining about honking cars, ignore )