Holiday dinner with Cousin Shirley

Cousin Shirley and Steve prepared a pan-Asian dinner for Christmas. I brought over the bûche de Noël and ice cream. Steve, the baking genius that he is, was baking macaroons throughout the evening that SB quickly swallowed in large batches despite his continued protestations that he does not like coconut. We had ox tail soup, a wonderful citrus-dressing with salad, avocado slices, and marinated carrot, and roasted potatoes that were followed up with Rogan Josh and spicy grilled drumsticks. SB and I both loved the Rogan Josh, which also contained the supposedly hated coconut milk. I feed SB coconut on a regular basis and am amused that he claims to dislike it so much but scarfs it down in large quantities in all sorts of food offerings.

It was a great un-traditional dinner with great company. We followed up the dinner with a weekend trek from Quarry Bay to Shek O (to be included in the next post).

SB watches Shoils stacking macaroons


aren't these individual teapots wonderful?


SB and his true love-- the thinkpad