Fri, Dec 26 - Thai Spicy BBQ

11.26am - chestnut oatmeal w/ candied pecans, at home2.37pm - mushroom-prosciutto omelette, at home

7.59pm - I've been thinking about what my favorite meals were this year, and this was definitely one of them: the spicy Thai pork patties w/ fried basil and mint at Spicy BBQ restaurant, way over yonder near Thai town. We'd been wanting to go back there for months, but they were closed for renovation as a car had plowed into their storefront.
This is one of their signature dishes that we got to know thanks to Jonathan Gold's recommendation, hence my fierce devotion to the man at the time. Without him, we'd never have had this experience, so thanks very much Mr. Gold!

8.08pm - This is easily the spiciest thing we've had all year, and we eat spicy! A Thai-spiced serrano chili dip that you eat with sticky rice. It is insane, and we couldn't stop eating it until our stomachs were on fire and ...

8.10pm - ... we had to order Thai Iced Tea for some of that soothing dairy action.

8.20pm - a veggie curry w/ glass noodles that was really nothing to write home about. Really, the thing to get here is the pork patties and the chili dip, everything else is just so-so

11pm - some Moroccan orange-date salad w/ mint, toasted almonds and orange-blossom water, at home, still trying to soothe our burning stomachs. This is the same salad we made for our Moroccan Christmas dinner and that I forgot to take a picture of at the time...