Since I’ve been back from Oregon, I’ve been up and down the Atlantic seaboard and had some pretty phenomenal eating and drinking. Xmas was in the tidewater area of Virginia, where my mother-in-law made crabcakes that always win me over from being a crabcake-hater. Hers are light, delicate, lumpy with crabmeat, and if they were made of gold they couldn’t taste richer. Another decadent seafood dish was her version of Giada’s Lemon Oil Shrimp with Linguine
. We ate both of these meals with Oregon Rieslings and they were a fantastic combination. To follow up the next morning, we tried out the frozen croissaints from Trader Joe’s. SO GOOD! you just proof them overnight and they bake up huge and beautiful. The mini croissaints are really cute and they don’t make you feel guilty for eating them, but the chocolate croissaints taste great and you don’t even need deny yourself the indugence. Xmas comes but once a year!
