Yes, I would gladly eat that!

Sounds delicious to me. No problem with ham?

I use frozen bags of shrimp for frying and wouldn't bother to source fresh (which is never really fresh/not frozen unless you live near a dock). They work beautifully.

I just mention this because I say thumbs up to fried shrimp, over chicken. Yum.

Mimipadv, shrimp, ham (prosciutto) and butter/cheese with meat are all equally traif, and the turkey (which could potentially have been kosher) is organic free range but not kosher slaughter. This crowd are more concerned with sustainable and humane, than diseases we no longer worry about, adulteration by strangers or misinterpretations of old strictures against attending pagan ceremonies. Some call it the "new kashrut".

We do live within a few miles of the ocean, though I'm not sure I'd want to eat local because of contamination potential. Thanks for the suggestion of using frozen for frying. Do you thaw it? I've only used frozen seafood a couple of times and it always seems very watery.

Lars, thanks for suggesting the Japanese market. I'll look into it.

Thanks for the vegetable suggestions too. I have extra turnips, so may try adding them to the fry if I have time.

John, thanks for the endorsement. It made me smile!

pillog, I do thaw before frying.

I make Bang Bang shrimp from time to time, and fresh out of the fryer, hot fried shrimp is heavenly.

There are good sales on shrimp this week, with New Years coming.

It all sounds good to me too, and I'd also take the shrimp over the chicken, although I'm careful to buy wild caught Gulf shrimp from US waters, trying to avoid the rampant antibiotics and contaminants, the child slave labor and the other problems present in the imported shrimp trade. Here they all come frozen, because we're a long way from an ocean, so even the "fresh" shrimp is more often just "thawed" shrimp. There is a place that raises fresh water shrimp in Lansing, but not in any quantity, so I don't normally have the opportunity to get those.

Happy Holidays, and enjoy your meal. I'm doing my family Christmas on New Year's Day, so it's another big meal for me, having done Christmas with Elery's family yesterday.

Annie

We like to buy sustainable seafood as well. Frozen. A 5lb block from the back that they thaw and lay out on ice anyway. Frozen i can plan ahead. That is in the shell but but we do a shrimp boil x-mas eve with oyster stew. Loose bagged shrimp can be bought butterflied and what we buy for just the two of us being able to take out just 4, 6 or a dozen at a time. I don't find frozen shrimp watery at all. It is firm fleshed. Once thawed just set in a bowl on p-towels.

We don't fry so i'm no help but the meal sounds super. I would enjoy the shrimp or the chicken since we don't have it at home.

Every families needs are so different but i have to make 2 each of a cheese platter, a veggie, a meat charcuterie, and a smoked salmon. A family of grazers. Once one is picked sloppy i can pull out another. One or two leftover is brunch the next day.

I bought a nice frozen puff pastry for Christmas day brunch/dinner... leek, artichoke hearts pie but never got to it. Maybe NewYears eve. Will not see us in TimesSquare, lol. Drove through that mess a half dozen times recently. Fortunately i was paid for that pain.

A Sept party i made mini ice cream sandwiches using the thin Anna cookies....ginger and the chocolate ones. Big hit and no plates or bowls needed. (but also no dishwasher at the farm).

Adding veggies to the fry sounds great. Sweet potato rounds and big slices of watermelon radish.

Sounds delicious. The only thing I would miss are latkes.

Worry not, cacocobird! Last week was the pre-holiday latke party. Everybody has had their fill of latkes! What we miss more are sufganiot. I'm not really a doughnut maker, but the sonhos will hit the spot. :)

Sleevendog, thanks for the further info about frozen shrimp. It sounds like a good alternative. All your various meal bits sound great. I might have a watermelon radish left...

Annie, thanks for the good wishes. Happy Holidays and all the best to your family for your New Year's Day Christmas celebration! I've taken your comments to heart and will be particularly careful in my inquiries about the bona fides of the shrimp. Frozen might actually have better provenance.

Well...if you put apples instead of root vegetables in that potato galette...it could be very nice "take" on latkes...
Also having a tough time wrapping my head around the turkey in the pea soup....and by vegetable chunks I hope you mean carrots, celery and onion....and not broccoli or beets.;-)
I would skip the turkey in the pea soup...and perhaps do chicken fingers...unless you find some lovely shrimp....but I am really liking the idea of apples and chevre in that potato galette!
Seems you have broken all the rules....shrimp, pork, cream with meat....sounds delicious!

I forgot to make latkes! And I have the potatoes, but lately I've been making frittatas with them instead of latkes. The frittata (similar to Spanish omelet) is more work, but it makes better leftovers.

Our blu-ray player went on the blink last Friday, and so we had to buy an emergency player on Dec 24, which was not bad because we went to Best Buy early - before it got crowded, which it did by noon. Since we bought an HD player, Kevin decided to buy a 65" 4K TV, and so we spent the week-end trying to get everything working together properly, which included mounting the new TV on the wall. Therefore I did not have as much time to spend cooking. I was going to put this info on your "How did your meals come out" thread, but since I didn't cook much, I thought it fit in better here. I don't even remember what we ate except that one meal was leftover stromboli. By yesterday, we had no more leftovers, and so I took some ground turkey meat from the freezer and made mushroom-turkey meatloaf, and I can use the leftover meatloaf in a pasta sauce. I'm going to start storing ground turkey in the freezer more often because it defrosts very nicely in my MW.

BTW, our TV was eight years old and I was ready to replace it. The Blu-ray player was not quite that old, but it simply would not work any more. I do not like the new remote controls we have, and we cannot zoom the picture on the TV when watching cable. At first we hooked up both cable and an antenna, and that got the TV confused, and so we disconnected the antenna. We use it mainly when cable goes out. Our sound system is old also (5.1 surround), and if we try to play discs that have 7.1 sound, it comes out in just stereo. Some discs support both 5.1 plus 7.1, and I told Kevin only to buy those. We do NOT want a new sound system.

Linda, I said they don't keep kosher, so no rules broken! Please do make your potato apple dish and tell us how you liked it. None of us want to see more latkes until next year, nor anything that even reminds us of them. Yes, the vegetables in the soup are celery, onion, carrot, but also maybe some fresh peas or green beans. Definitely not broccoli or beets. I've made this soup many times before and if one doesn't have preconceived ideas that pea soup should taste more like ham than peas, it's very good, inc. the turkey.

Lars, that's one expensive blu-ray player!! We had to buy a new TV a few months ago, but wanted it to fit in my cabinet and there aren't many with the features I wanted and the size needed, but they finally got one. A single one. But they also offered it for $40+ less if one would accept it bundled with a blu-ray player. ;) So we now have a new blu-ray player too! One that actually saved us money. :) Not often that happens, huh? I feel you on the sound. I get that they want to constantly improve and progress, but who wants their tech acting like spoiled teenagers? That's why I used to resist blu-ray, and don't want any that don't also come with a regular dvd.

You have plenty of time to make latkes if you want to. I've also learned that they're very resilient and freeze, keep and rewarm well. I was doubtful, but they did. I almost made a latke kugel with the last of them, but I didn't have time. All your scrounging sounds fun! I hope your holidays have been happy ones.

Interesting about the ground turkey. I don't ever freeze raw meat. Something new to learn.

I looked at the frozen shrimp today and they only had cooked. Is it cooked or raw shrimp that y'all have been recommending?

Best laid plans...

The dinner site has moved. I cannot do this menu in someone else's kitchen. The soup will freeze. ;)

New menu:

Bourekes, both cheese and spinach (like Greek tiropita and spanakopita, though Shambo said there are more syllables for this kind, but I forget them. They're bourekes to me. :) )

Chicken Marbella variation

Potato galette with roots and chevre, as above

Some kind of green veg or salad TBD depending on what's in the store

Very chocolate ice cream

Maybe bought pastry (churros or sufganiot)

Chicken Marbella is an excellent choice.

Sorry you have to ditch the fried food!

You sound like an amazing cook, so I'm sure your spread with be more than worthy!

Thank-you for the kind words. Can't go wrong with Chicken Marbella! But I realized that the roots will keep, the sauce calls for rice, and the weather--the reason for the move--is killing me. Marbella is festive enough. :) So I've nixed the potato galette in favor of plain rice. :) I'll add some sweet potato slivers to the mixed veg for a bit of earthiness instead.

plllog, your revised menu sounds good too. I sometimes put turkey in my split pea soup, but it's smoked turkey in place of ham hocks or whatever smoked/porky addition I normally use.

And now I need to make latkes too. Carol/Dishesdone just won first place in a latke cookoff at her neighborhood Community Center, I'm going to go ask for her recipe, now that I know they freeze well.

Annie

Thanks, Annie. I even made the sonhos, but only added jam to half. I'm trying to motivate myself to trim artichokes. It's raining and I just want to sleep.

Re freezing latkes, all of three recipes froze and warmed in the oven just fine. Nothing beats fresh out of the pan, but they were still really good. I put them in a long, flat container with parchment on each layer, then just transferred them to the baking sheet on the strips of parchment. That made it really easy to reheat by the gross at once and none stuck together.

Just regular roast turkey is good in pea soup too. (i.e., added to vegetarian pea soup to make it non-vegetarian pea soup.) I learned to make vegetarian pea soup when I was young, and I've never made the ham kind. It's a totally different flavor soup, but good!