Nala turns 2 today! Two years ago Nala was born/whelped and a couple of months after that we brought her home with us. Hard to believe all that time has gone by already. Seems like just a short while ago we were waking up every 2 or 3 hours to take her outside to go to the bathroom or watching her scamper around the apartment being a little puppy. Now she’s a big grown up mellow dog who likes nothing more than to have someone throw a ball for her or give you lots of kisses.
Here she is at about 14 weeks old
Here she is now
I have the best wife ever
because she gave me this for Christmas
Christmas feasting
For various scheduling reasons, we ended up having the Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve instead. Rather than the traditional roasted turkey, we ended up doing a rib roast and salt dome fish.
The salt dome fish was something we did a few years back for another Christmas dinner with the family in LA. Had a much larger fish back then, but this year it was just as tasty.
Christmas greetings
The dogs would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday filled with lots of treats, biscuits and chew toys.
Where the spices are
I was watching the Good Eats fruitcake episode last night which features a segment where he visits a spice shop. So it got me thinking: with all the variety of cuisine and the long culinary tradition in Charleston, why isn’t there a decent spice shop around? And if there is, why haven’t I found it yet?
So what’s up? Where, besides the local grocery store, are you supposed to go for good quality spices and people who know what they’re selling?