The new year night's menu: Fried "chow mein" noodles Smoked oyster, cream cheese, and scallion appetizers Lettuce wraps (made with chicken - note to self, don't do this again) Noodles with pork and mushrooms Red-braised rabbit on a cabbage bed, carrot garnish Baby bok choy in white chicken broth sauce Seared duck with hoisin and scallions Spicy bean sprouts Shrimp with scallions and ginger Almond float Almond cookies Beer: Yuengling Light; Tsingtao.
Rovers tasting menu with wine pairing..... Cranberry Foie Torchon with Toasted Brioche and Cinnamon Crème Fraîche & Kushi Oyster with Blood Orange Nage and Sake Pickled Vegetable Seared Diver’s Sea Scallop with Sea Urchin, Arugula Pomme Mousseline and Bacon-Muscatel Vinegar Dressing ***Colombia River Sturgeon with Foie Gras-Burgundy Truffle Mousseline and Braised Cabbage Spiced Duck Breast with Roasted Chestnuts, Root Vegetables and Winter Apple Cider Sauce Sorbet Venison Medallion with Braised Oxtail-Wild Mushroom Ragu, Parsnip Flan and Black Currant Demi Symphony of Desserts not bad, not great. I have had better dinners there. However, the wines were awesome, the company divine and the tater tots ca. 10:45 pm spectacular.
Lunar New Year? USDA Prime hanger steak, very rare due to lack of patience, baked russet potato with mounds of butter. Some random red wine. January 31? A nice champagne in a Costco sort of way Don't remember the food, if any.
Lunar new year? I made a long bean/pork dish that I learned in a cooking class I took in Beijing. Jan 1---I made a black eyed pea curry, and stuck some shredded collard greens in there, too. Dec 31--pizza and champagne.
Why do you not want to make lettuce wraps again? Our New Year's meal consisted many 15 peso tacos & fresh made ceviche
New Year's Day - a whole lamb, in the campo in the south of Chile. The night before? A humble home-cooked dinner with a lot of wine.
Let see - for the Major new year (celebrated by most countries) - i was in SG - Chili Crab, hawker food, For Lunar New Year - Roasted Pork, Chicken, Fish Maw with mushroom, Sea cucumber - this could easily be classified as Bizarre Foods by Andrew Zimmern...hahaha.
Lunar New Year: Lamb slow-cooked in a tajine, bathed in a moroccan-asian fusion blend of spices and herbs. January 31: Peking Duck Samosas Asian Pesto Vietnamese-style chicken wings.
I basically "ate" my pillow on NYE. It was the end of our fiscal year and we had done a conference call / deal closing the night before that ended at 2:45 AM on NYE day. Back up at 7AM and finished the last deal at 8PM. (Hey diver90 - shut up and quit whining... I'm just sayin')
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