There's been an increase of mention of Chinese "Comfort" food lately. There was an article this past week about "Hot Pot". It's oddly comforting to be sitting in front of a steaming pot of hot broth, throwing in whatever food item strikes your fancy (meat, veggies, seafood, tofu ...) especially when weather's a bit on the chilly side. We've been going through rainstorms lately. Yes, these are actually RAIN, not the usual drizzle that we Californians run to shelters for. Hot pot has been all I can think about the last few days for dinner. I went and drove by the Shabu-Shabu place near my house and they were PACKED! I guess I'll just have to wait for another night to go.
New Year's Eve was good. H and I went to D's house to cook up a seafood feast. We had originally wanted to get some crabs, but they were sold out everywhere I went. So ... we settled for some jumbo prawns, steamed clams and D made a large pot of clam chowder. All in all, it went well. I even brought along a bottle of champagne (gift from some vendor) and enjoyed it along with our meal. With my tolerance for alcohol, I had to go lie down soon after we finished with our meal. So ... while D and H were sitting there watching TV, and I was laying on the couch taking my much needed post-alcohol "nap". D was sitting next to where my head was and I kept hearing him clapping and trying to wake me up. Apparently, I was snoring rather loudly. All in all, it all went well ... even without the crabs.
One sidenote: the recipe for the clam chowder called for some flour to thicken it. D didn't have any. We ended up sending H around the block to borrow a cup from the restaurant we go to quite often. How neighbor-ly huh?
It's New Year's Day and we're sitting around waiting to go yum-cha. It's gonna be crowded!
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