This blog is turning out to be a great venue for sharing news and photos from our extended families, and it is certainly proof positive that the participants -- from California to Florida to Chicago -- enjoy both cooking and eating. Thanks to all for their posts and comments, which are a pleasure to read.
Last night for Christmas Eve we headed over to Sandra's place where we snagged a rare parking spot just around the corner -- "the best ever" -- and when we got up to the 19th floor found Edith and Raymond busy in the kitchen fixing up a fusion feast that combined Peruvian, Japanese and vegan cuisines.
Let's start with the palmito salad, an adaptation by Edith of a Peruvian ceviche dish, without the fish. It included hearts of palm, artichoke hearts, lettuce, oranges and julienned strips of carrot. Excellent.
There were also Peru-style stuffed avocados with peas and carrots; miso soup with seaweed; purple potatoes with a rich mushroom sauce that combined shitake and other 'shrooms, providing a chewy texture as well as flavor; El Milagro totopos (corn chips) and a very powerful Peruvian hot sauce direct from Ay Ay Picante, the best of Chicago's Peruvian restaurants. I put the hot sauce on the palmito salad as well as the potatoes; what's not to like? We contributed "Carolyn's spicy peanut noodles," made by Pam.
We topped it all off with a lovely dessert called Masa Morada, or purple corn. I didn't taste the corn so much as a delicious sweet pudding with chunks of pineapple and orange segments in it.
All the while we discussed home repairs, the Republican presidential candidates (about whom Sandra seems a bit obsessed, perhaps because she's worried one of them could win), and Raymond and Edith's recent trip to Thailand. And food, of course. We talked about food and what we were going to cook next.
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