What did you cook or eat today? (December 2025)

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Lunch spread
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Lunch plate
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Meringue
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Fruit
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They are the lovely chewy centre. Sticky and sweet with a slightly toffee chewy centre.
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I WANT that table cloth!!!
SatNavSaysStraightOn did you make that?

 

[Barriehie]

But so tasty

Yes for sure! Also the only way I know to get oil on the ceiling...

 

[blades]

No turkey for Christmas dinner. I made baby back pork ribs with a homemade rub and homemade BBQ sauce, homemade potato salad, herbed brown rice and corn on the cob. We needed two plates each to hold everyting. We had cheesecake for dessert. Excellent dinner. Time for a nap.

 

[Z-Cook]

Fried chicken livers!

Makes a great liver pate too

 

[TastyReuben]

I made baby back pork ribs

That’s what my neighbors are having.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Mushroom risotto as the main event

 

[Barriehie]

Makes a great liver pate too

Hmm, I've made a liver loaf before but never a pâté. Next tub...

 

[karadekoolaid]

Nothing yet, but the wife is going to make a carbonara. No guanciale, but I've got some imported pancetta, and that will do.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I WANT that table cloth!!!
SatNavSaysStraightOn did you make that?

No afraid not. My mother found it many years ago and bought it have it to us as a present. It's our one and only tablecloth.

 

[Wombat457]

Well once I got up this morning I put everything together for our Cottage Pie (Shephards Pie BUT made with Beef and not Lamb ) so we could take one to my youngest Step Son, which we did amongst other things.

Now I have just finished doing OUR Cottage Pie (adding the Potato and Cheese and yeah - I cheat and use Instant Smashed Spuds
) That is in the oven and should be done and ready to eat in about 20 minutes now.

 

[SoCalZone10]

I’m doing potato in the oven too, everybody else is dozing on the couch after a lunch.
Onion soup

Salad and my charcuterie plate, the chicken/mushroom pate from Trader Joe’s is very good, same with the smoked salmon.
But my kids said to take a break from eating, and remove the crostini stuff from dinner menu, they had enough bread. They said I hit the right note on the onion soup, honestly I was worried when I first tasted it, especially after I poured half a bottle of white wine in the soup.

So I’m just making Shrimp Timbale, grilled quails, roast duck legs, and 2 roast rack of lambs. They are to be served at around 3ish.
So all the vegetables are prepped waiting for the potato Dauphinoise to bake.

 

[Wombat457]

everybody else is dozing in the couch after a lunch.

Ahh yes, the traditional (and mandatory) after lunch/dinner nap

 

[Barriehie]

I’m doing potato in the oven too, everybody else is dozing in the couch after a lunch.
Onion soup
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Salad and my charcuterie plate, the chicken/mushroom pate from Trader Joe’s is very good, same with the smoked salmon.
But my kids said to take a break from eating, and remove the crostini stuff from dinner menu, they had enough bread. They said I hit the right note on the onion soup, honestly I was worried when I first tasted it, especially after I poured half a bottle of white wine in the soup.

So I’m just making Shrimp Timbale, grilled quails, roast duck legs, and 2 roast rack of lambs. They are to be served at around 3ish.
So all the vegetables are prepped waiting for the potato Dauphinoise to bake.

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The rest of the wine???

 

[detroitdad]

Homemade roasted tomato soup and bacon grilled cheese sandwiches

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Buffet Christmas Lunch at my Mother's Senior Living Community Dining Room, buffet-style