New Year's Eve 2013

New Year's Eve 2013

Chinese hot pot
 ...with beef, shrimp, chicken, and fish balls
 ...cellophane noodles and Nappa Cabbage

Spaghetti with pesto sauce

With Mika Taga-Anderson

Spaghetti with pesto sauce
Chicken Caesar salad

Senate bean soup

Senate bean soup
Pan steamed green beans
Spelt popovers

Made by: Anja and Maxime (Senate bean soup)

Dinner @ the Zlokapa's

Dinner @ the Zlokapa's

Contributed:
Phyllo triangles with ground meat, onions, and pine nuts
Salad with pears, hazelnuts, dried cranberries, and red onion

Red rice with miso-roasted squash, leeks, red pepper, and tofu

Dinner with the Quan Wong family

Mango-curry shrimp salad in wonton cups
Temple garden chowder in the winter
Red rice with miso-roasted squash, leeks, red pepper, and tofu
Lemon chiffon cake with raspberry sauce

New: mango-curry shrimp salad in wonton cups (Bon Appetit, October 2001, on epicurious.com); temple garden chowder in the winter (by Elizabeth Andoh, Washoku. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005); lemon chiffon cake with raspberry sauce (Bon Appetit, July 1991, on epicurious.com)

Turkey burgers

Turkey burgers
 ...with avocados and tomatoes, or onions and mushrooms
Salad with pomegranate seeds, goat cheese, and pecans

Regular: turkey burgers

Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013

Spiced lamb chops with mint-mango sauce
Brussels sprouts with cream
Latkes
Lemon frozen yogurt
Redux: cream puffs

Made by... Anja and Maxime (frozen yogurt); Anja, Norbert, and me (latkes)

New: Lemon frozen yogurt (based on "Lime-Yogurt Sherbet" in Gourmet, May 2001)