- shu mai

- homemade bread rolls

- fried chicken scallion dumplings

- avgolemono soup

- spicy Mac & cheese

Foods my 9 month old son says are an offense to god and nature:

- gerber one ingredient apple sauce

- mushed banana

I am really happy and I’ve had a really wonderful year personally, even though the world continues to go to shit. My son is amazing, just now he was super hyper and then instantaneously conked out for a floor nap like that scene in monsters inc, so I carried his little butt to bed and then settled in and read a book for an hour. When he wakes up we are going to the gym to start trying to get back into some kind of shape. I made homemade mocha sauce and marshmallows as gifts for my pals, and my wife made pretty labels for them with her cricut and people did not even realize at first that they were homemade because the labels were professional AF, it pays to marry someone with graphic design experience. I made incredible slow roasted lamb in gravy for Christmas, and for our post-Christmas party w friends I finally got my butternut squash soup to be completely perfect. It contained: 1 butternut squash, an entire head of garlic that had been caramelized in the oven at low heat for over an hour, a can of coconut milk, butter, milk, salt, pepper, brown sugar. Really good, will make again.

2026 goals:

Read, write, parent, cook, be kind, be happy

Cannot believe the wholesome lovely life I am living, what the heck

Then Lyss decided she’d also rather have breakfast by Christmas tree and we took cute photos of the baby man being fascinated by his tree and his ornaments, and then I did laundry, and while I was at the laundromat someone else had a McDonald’s breakfast and it smelled amazing and we decided that even though yogurt toast is lovely it is not very filling and we walked to McDonald’s and got 2nd breakfast and there was a dog there and I got to pet it