New Year's Eve 2010

New Year's Eve 2010

Peking duck
Winter melon, lotus root, Napa cabbage, & bean thread noodle soup
Steamed buns
Scallions
Hoisin sauce

Molten chocolate cakes with mint fudge sauce

Family favorite: Peking duck

Made by... Norbert & me (buns), Anja & Maxime (cakes)

Maple pork and beans

Maple pork and beans
Sauteed broccoli with shallots
No-knead bread

Family favorite: maple pork and beans

Chinese hot pot

Chinese hot pot with...
Thin-sliced beef, chicken, shrimp, & fish balls
Napa cabbage
Bean thread noodles
Gailan with oyster-soy sauce
Rice

Redux: three-cheese lasagna

Redux: three-cheese lasagna

Three-cheese lasagna

Three-cheese lasagna
Caesar salad

Family favorite: three-cheese lasagna

Redux: Christmas 2010

Redux: Christmas 2010

Christmas 2010

Christmas 2010
with Kris and Louise Wainscott

Mini-shrimp cornets
Toasted spiced pecans
Panettone*

Moroccan carrot soup
Sicilian flatbread
Stuffed turkey breast
Green beans with toasted walnuts and dried-cherry vinaigrette

Pear cranberry cake

New: Mini shrimp cornets (Gourmet, November 2004); toasted spiced pecans (Lisa Ota); Moroccan carrot soup (Bon Appetit, April 2010); Sicilian flatbread (Food & Wine, January 1992); stuffed turkey breast (Grilling, by John Philip Carroll, gen. ed. Chuck Williams, 1992); green beans with toasted walnuts and dried-cherry vinaigrette (Bon Appetit, November 2010); pear cranberry cake (Gourmet, November 2009)

Made by... Norbert (turkey, carrot soup), Norbert & me (green beans), Wainscotts (panettone)