[Mike Nolan]

Ahead of Diane's birthday two weeks ago I was looking for a source for some veal to make Veal Zurich. Couldn't find any in Lincoln other than ground veal and some shanks (for Osse Bucco), but I did find a place in Omaha called 'Just Good Meat'. It's just off the Interstate, so we went right past it on the way home from dropping David and Kelita off at the airport this morning.

I got several packages of veal cutlets, thinly sliced, and 2 packages of beef shanks for beef stock.

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Tonight I made forgotten chocolate meringue cookies and Diane is making a double batch of oatmeal-raisin-date spice cookies, which will hopefully fit in our 4 1/2 quart mixer.

It might seem odd to be doing holiday baking after Christmas, but these are mostly to go back to Pittsburgh when our son and granddaughter leave in the morning.

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I'm an In-N-Out fan myself.

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My son like to order frequently from either DaVinci's or Taco Inn when he's in town, because those aren't available in Pittsburgh. I ate at Taco Inn nearly every weekday for the first two years I was in grad school, I'm fast food faux taco'd out. DaVinci's take on a cheese steak is pretty good (though not true Philly style), but one every two or three weeks is my limit. Now, good Italian Beef I could handle a lot more often, but there isn't any in Lincoln.

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I've always read that overmixing results in brownies that sink in the middle, though some sites say having too much leavening can also cause that. Some sites say doming is caused by having the oven too warm, or using the wrong kind of pan.

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We've got 3 entrees, 2 sandwich meats, 3 kinds of bread and multiple desserts, so we'll probably order hoagies from DaVinci's for supper tonight. 🙂

Nope: Taco Inn. 🙂

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I think we'll be eating leftovers of some kind for most of the next week. I did make bagels today so we've got 3 different bread options.

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I made a batch of a dozen bagels today.

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They've had a few instances of big cats (probably cougars) in trees in suburban Omaha and I think one wandered into a building at the Veteran's Hospital in Lincoln a year ago, but so far we haven't seen any big cats in our neighborhood. We do see coyotes, though not recently. A mile or so from here there's a woods with a resident flock of turkeys, we see them along the side of the road frequently. Down by the middle school I've seen some game birds (probably pheasant) just standing in the road, in no hurry to get out of anyone's way. A neighbor tells me they see ducks and geese in their front yard on their security camera, there are several hundred geese that are full-time residents at nearby lakes and ponds, the Merlin app hears them frequently flying over.

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I hope everybody had a good Christmas. We woke up to a white Christmas, with about 5 inches of snow through late afternoon.

Our day got off to a fun start when we saw the neighborhood fox running through the back yard this morning. My son managed to catch a picture of it.

I'm still stuffed from supper!

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A few years back the Washington Post had an article on what to do with left over egg whites, with separate recipes for when you have one egg white, two egg whites, three egg whites, etc.

This includes the Forgotten Chocolate Meringue cookie recipe that I've made several times.

https://wapo.st/48xaxJw

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Today my wife assembled two trifles (a big one and a smaller one with remains of the pastry cream and fruit.)

David is making the potato casserole, the ham will go in the oven around 4:30.

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We had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of oyster stew and chili, with a relish tray and a dessert platter of cookies and candies. Then we opened one present each. (Diane actually got 2 of them, because one was one I figured she'd want to use tonight and the other was one I really wanted to give her this evening.)

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I'm making a small batch of cinnamon rolls to go with the chili tonight.

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I made a triple batch of pastry cream this evening, so that we can make our traditional Christmas trifle tomorrow. Hopefully that'll be enough to have some left over for snacking. (I made it late enough in the evening that just my son and I were around to scrape the leavings out of the pan.)

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