{"id":5671,"date":"2011-12-26T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2012-12-02T01:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T01:21:29","slug":"merry-dayafterchristmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/merry-dayafterchristmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Day-After-Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been away from the blog for a few days, thanks to my\u00a0other &#8220;job&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Executive Chef\u00a0at Chez Lowe.\u00a0And\u00a0since my kids have outgrown more traditional holiday fare, I had (by request)\u00a0a set of rather challenging Xmas Eve\/Xmas menus to create.\u00a0Specifically, a range of Asian-themed hors d&#8217;oeuvres for Xmas Eve; followed by an elaborate Xmas brunch (eggs benedict) + dinner (seafood newburg in puff pastry; w\/homemade tiramisu for dessert).<\/p>\n<p>Healthy? Not a chance! It was awesome, though&#8230; worth the three days spent in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>(And yes,\u00a0with all\u00a0the prep work involved,\u00a0it really did take\u00a0three days. I work a lot more slowly and carefully\u00a0than this guy does, lol&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"838\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4jd0Hold4So?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>)<\/p>\n<p>At any rate,\u00a0I&#8217;m now officially burned out on cooking rich, exotic meals! Time to return to simpler, healthier\u00a0(but still tasty!) dishes&#8230; and my regularly scheduled work.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;ya tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been away from the blog for a few days, thanks to my\u00a0other &#8220;job&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Executive Chef\u00a0at Chez Lowe.\u00a0And\u00a0since my kids have outgrown more traditional holiday fare, I had (by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}