christmas eve. all about the cozy.

first christmas eve with my perfect someone. she is wrapping big boxes for me to rip open tomorrow morning in the bedroom... don't know what are hidden in there yet! 150% excited. she just came out and tried to guess her presents! naughty!!

we just finished off our local delight supper of fresh off-the-boat dungeness crabs from the north pacific, bought from monterey fish market after drawing the number and standing in a line of holiday cooks for over an hour, baked potatoes loaded with magnani's turkey gravy, locally grown salad greens topped with chopped pear, walnuts, dried cranberries, and honey infused goat cheese, and ladyfingers' strawberry charlotte, a perfect little chilled cake made with strawberry mousse. the wine that accompanied was a 2005 select cab from hagafen in napa, which i bought last year when i went tasting for an event.


totally worth waiting in line!

squeeze some lemon on this cutie and dip it in garlic herb butter... hmmmmmmm.