Thread: What did you Cook For X Mas 2010?: Pics

Originally Posted by Just In Time

i baked...does that count?

You baked or you are baked?

Did traditional for Thanksgiving so for Christmas me and my wife did Pizza and Wings, cooked at home.

Ham, sweet potato soufflé, hand mashed potatoes and Swedish Tort on Christmas Day.

However, after 10 years together, wifey who hates chili, made white chicken chili tonight and I'm the cook in the family.

I almost cried. Corn bread, some Texas Pete and sour cream; it was pure heaven!

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I cooked dinner for my Wife and Mother-in-law on Christmas, but hadn't uploaded my xmas photos until a few days ago.

Tried a few new recipes though -

Lotus Root and Mushroom soup (wife is chinese, so it's a favorite of hers):



Main Course was Salt-Crusted Sea Bass, where the whole fish is covered in a salt/egg mixture then baked:



Once it's finished you crack open the salt crust and end up with a nice, tender fish, since the salt simply forms a crust to hold in the moisture and flavor, it pulls away so that the fish isn't salty either (although, mine wasnt perfect and had a few chunks of salt to pick around):



For Dessert, I made the Momofuku "Crack" pie, an oatmeal cookie crust pie similar to a chess pie. Unfortunately, I forgot to take any pictures of the finished product. Google it for the recipe, it's really easy, and my god is it good...

That all looks great! That soup really looks yummy! Is it hard to make?

Originally Posted by Deuce

WINNER!!!

I've never known of anybody to cook a whole pig for Xmas!!

That's amazing!!!

Originally Posted by Aimee

That all looks great! That soup really looks yummy! Is it hard to make?

Thanks!

And no, it's a pretty simple soup to make:

• Broth is 1/4 Chicken Stock, 1/4 Beef Broth, then the other half water. I've been blending both on my soups lately, but you can use one if you prefer.
• Add Carrots and Onion to flavor. I removed these at the end since the wife doesnt like them in her soup (made a cheesecloth bag), but typically I would leave them in there.
• Add the pork knuckles, which is common in asian cooking, but you can use any pork roast/meat in it if you want meat. The knuckle is actually quite tender and tasty.
• Add the sliced lotus roots, you can get them at most asian grocery stores; they're quite similar to a potato, just a little bit firmer.
• Add a little Parsnip or any other vegetables you want in your soup - I usually add leeks if there's still room in the pot, but it was already full today
• Let simmer a few hours till pork is cooked and lotus roots are tender
• Add salt and pepper to taste, skim the top occasionally to remove fat/oils that rise to the top (or put in the fridge when done, then scoop the fat from the top the next day)
• Enjoy!

Basically it's just add stock to pot, chop up some vegetables, add the meat and walk away for a few hours. I'll vary the vegetables I use frequently, but the lotus roots made it something a little different this time.

Originally Posted by Deuce

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you win by a huge margin my friend.

I dont eat pork, but i know i would break that rule for this atleast once in my life.