Our friends Dan and Linda had a Super Bowl party, and we brought rice pudding and pickled herring (an odd combination, I know) to the festivities.  That was in addition to Kevin’s chicken pate, a butter, cognac, and liver concoction that is always very popular.

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1. Oysters, cranberries, garlic, herbs, and eggs It was Thanksgiving dinner.   We opened with oysters and a three-liver (duck, turkey, chicken) pate that Kevin made.  Then a classic turkey with a bread stuffing, a butternut squash gratin,...
2. Our Thanksgiving turkey It wasn’t just the turkey that we acquired first-hand.  There were also oysters, and cranberries from a friend’s bog.  Kevin made a turkey liver pate, and his critically acclaimed smoked...
3. Another round of Kevin’s smoked bluefish cakes But now I’m putting a one-month moratorium on them. They’re like crack.  (The recipe is here, in case you need more crack at your house.)...
4. I’ve been told that sea salt counts … … and I used it to make the pasta out of the seafood sausage Kevin made on Saturday. The sausage had scallops, haddock, shrimp, and lobster, none of which we...
5. The shellfish extravaganza continues I got home late, after spending the day in Boston.  It was nice to warm up the clam and andouille concoction for dinner....